CALLTODON. [03 



Scarus naevius, Cuv. §■ Veil. xiv. p. 253. 



Callyodon chlorolepis, Richards. Voy. Sulph. Ichth. p. 137, pi. 64. figs. 4-7. 



Scaricbthys auritus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 15, t. 1. f. 3; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 213. 



Zanzibar. From Seychelles to New Hebrides. 



352. Scarichthys cseruleopunctatus. [601.] 

 Scarus cseruleopunctatus, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 24, t. 7. f. 3 ; Cuv. £f Val. xiv. p. 262. 



bottae, Cuv. fy Val. xiv. p. 262. 



Scaricbthys caeruleopunctatus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 16, t. 1. f. 2; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 213. 



In Giinther's Catalogue of Fishes the formula of the anal fin is given as g, and it is 

 stated as a generic character that the scales of the back cover the base of the dorsal fin. 

 In the specimen from Zanzibar the anal fin is g, and the dorsal fin is entirely free from 

 scales, in which respects it agrees Avith Bleeker's description. 



Zanzibar. Red Sea. East-Indian archipelago. 



CALLYODON, Gron. 



353. Callyodon viridescens. [434 a, 544, 604.] 

 Callyodon viridescens, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 23, t. 7. f. 2 ; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 214. 



This species is distinguished by having constantly a black base to the pectoral and a 

 more or less distinct black spot between the first and third dorsal spines. None of 

 these characteristics are visible in C. genistriatus ; in other respects the specimens vary 

 much in colour. 



Var. a. Brown, marbled and spotted with darker. 



Var. b. Olive ; belly white, nearly every scale with a brick-red centre ; the whole 

 body densely covered with rather irregular indistinct white points. Head, opercles, and 

 middle of trunk with a number of scattered red spots, each having a dark centre. A 

 rather indistinct light lateral band from the angle of the operculum to the root of the 

 caudal. Two red lines pass through the eye at the upper posterior margin, and go round 

 the lower lip ; the posterior one touches the angle of the mouth ; sometimes a third and 

 shorter line, parallel to the above, below the orbit. Dorsal and caudal indistinctly 

 spotted with reddish yellow ; anal with a blackish margin and two longitudinal reddish 

 bands anastomosing with each other and enclosing whitish round spots ; ventrals white ; 

 pectorals yellow. Black spots on dorsal and pectorals as before described. 



Length 3 to 5 inches. 



Zanzibar. Red Sea. 

 354. Callyodon genistriatus. L 542 > 582 -J 



Callyodon genistriatus, Cuv. if Val. xiv. p. 293; Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 13, t. 1. f.l ; Giinth. Fish. 

 iv. p. 215. 



Colour of adult in life.— Greenish red, each scale with a vertical red mark at the base, 



