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where the next scale overlaps. Head with red lines radiating from the eye, and several 

 red marks on the chin, opercles, and forehead. Dorsal green, with orange margins and 

 a similarly coloured line above the top of the scaly sheath, becoming interrupted and 

 forming spots towards the end. Anal green, with orange marginal and median lines. 

 Caudal green, with a white margin and about four vertical orange bars between the 

 lobes. — Length 10 inches. 



There are two other specimens in this collection, 4 and 4^ inches long [582], which 

 are brownish, spotted all over with whitish ; fins variegated with lighter and darker 

 brown, and a row of red spots along the base of the anal rays. These we consider to be 

 the young of C. genistriatus. They are very similar to the nominal species figured by 

 Bleeker as C. spinidens. It appears that the small teeth within the front series of the 

 upper jaw is a characteristic developed in a varying degree in young specimens, which 

 probably disappears entirely with age; the rounded caudal of immature specimens 

 becomes emarginate in adults ; we have therefore little doubt that C. spinidens is founded 

 on young specimens of C. genistriatus. 



Zanzibar. East-Indian archipelago. 



PSEUDOSCARUS, BleeJc*\ 



355. Pseudoscarus harid. L 300 > 607 -] 



Scarus harid, Forsk. p. 30; Riipp. All. Fische, p. 80, t. 21. f. 1. 



mastax, Riipp. All. Fische, p. 80, t. 21. f. 2, and N. W. Fische, p. 28 ; Cuv. $ Val. xiv. p. 2-16. 



Pseudoscarus mastax, Bleek. At!. Ichth. i. p. 35, t. 10. f. 1. 

 harid, Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 220. 



Zanzibar. Bed Sea. Java. Cocos. 



356. Pseudoscarus javanicus. [537, 673.] 

 Pseudoscarus javanicus, Bleek. All. Ichth. i. p. 36, t. 11. f. 3; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 222. 



Colour in life. — Greenish ; each scale with a vertical reddish mark on the base. Lips 

 with an orange band between two green ones ; the exterior green band of the upper lip 

 takes a bend at the corner of the mouth and proceeds to the eye, skirting the lower 

 margin. A green band from symphysis of lower jaw to anal. Dorsal and anal violet, 

 with green margins and broad basal bands. Caudal green, with a violet band along the 

 middle of each lobe. Pectorals green, with a violet centre. 



Zanzibar. Java. 



* Although in many instances we have given the colours in life of the species of this genus, these must not 

 be implicitly relied on as specific characters. They vary exceedingly with age, sex, and season ; we would 

 particularly direct attention to P. troschelu, Bleek., as an instance in point. 



t Undetermined specimens [30, 126, 519]. 



