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The formula of the anal fin is g, and in some specimens the posterior half of the fish 

 is of a lighter colour than the anterior. 

 Zanzibar. Batavia. 



364. Pseudoscarus pentazona. [550.] 

 Pseudoscarus pentazona, Bleek. All. Ichth. i. p. 46, t. 11. f. 1 ; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 231. 



D 9 A 3 



-U. g. A. g. 



Colour in life. — Pale grey, with about five rather indistinct darker cross bands, each 

 scale with a reddish vertical line at the base. Lips blue ; a separate blue line parallel 

 to each ; between these the colour is rosy ; the upper line is continued to the middle of 

 the anterior part of orbit. A blue line along the lower edge of the fish from symphysis 

 of jaws to vent. Dorsal and anal brownish, clouded with purple in the centre, and with 

 purple marginal lines ; caudal purplish brown, with darker margins to each lobe. 



Zanzibar. Celebes. 



365. Pseudoscarus erythrodon. [548.] 

 Scarus erythrodon, Cuv. if Val. xiv. p. 255. 



Pseudoscarus sumbawensis, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 47, t. 15. f. 4; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 232. 



Colour in life. — Blackish brown, each scale with a dark brown margin ; tail lighter 

 than body, a violet tint on thoracic region ; snout yellowish brown ; dorsal and anal 

 brownish, with a narrow black marginal line ; ventrals brown ; pectorals transparent 

 brown. 



Zanzibar. 1 Mauritius. East-Indian archipelago. 



366. Pseudoscarus nucbipunctatus. [213, 541.] 

 Scarus nuchipunctatus, Cuv. if Val. xiv. p. 224. 



limbatus, Cuv. if Val. xiv. p. 271. 



Pseudoscarus nucbipunctatus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 31, t. 10. f. 2; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 233. 



LF. 1Q . A. g • 



Spec, a [213]. Colour in life. — Head and belly deep bright red; the remainder 

 reddish brown, with lighter longitudinal stripes, which are of the same breadth as the 

 interspaces between them ; these occur in the middle and on the top and bottom of 

 each scale. A deep-greenish, almost black stripe passes through the upper part of 

 the orbit across the operculum ; another round the upper lip ; a third, more or less in- 

 terrupted, passes beneath the orbit, round the lower lip ; and a fourth, parallel to the 

 last, lower down. There is a similarly coloured longitudinal line along the junction of 

 the branchiostegous membranes, and another on each side along the inferior margin of 

 the praeoperculuni. Dorsal and anal reddish, with blue or green marginal lines. 

 Pectorals and ventrals reddish. Caudal with a narrow posterior blue margin. 



Length 8| inches. 



p2 



