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fluent or pavement-like. Branchiostegals 6. Fins: Caudal deeply 

 lunate. Length, longest ray etjual to head; the shortest ray 2.20 

 into head. Pecftorals 1.25 into head. Ventrals 1.50. Base of anal 

 about I into head, 2 into base of dorsal. Color: Head violet with 

 about five oblique or longitudinal lines of greenish with darker 

 edges; three of these lines centre in the orbit. Body greenish, the 

 vertical streak on each scale very indistinct. Pecflorals with a broad 

 obliqvie black band across its posterior half, and with a black spot 

 at the axis. A black spot between second and third dorsal spines; 

 two fine brown lines run the entire lenth of the dorsal, one near the 

 base, the other just above the middle of its height; they are the 

 margins of a broad band of greenish along the middle of the fin. 

 Anal with a similar line running a little above its middle, sepa- 

 rating the bluish basal portion from the outer yellowish white. 

 Caudal yellowish white with a yellowish band having fine brown 

 edges along the upper and lower margins of the fin. Six speci- 

 mens. Length 2.50-7 inches. Guam, July 14, 1900. Hab. North 

 coast of Australia, New Hebrides, Norfolk Island, Marianas. 



147. Julis purpurea (Forsk.). 



Head 3.33; depth 3.33; eye 7.50; interorbital 4.33; D. viir 13; 

 A. II 11; V. I 5. Scales 27. Head entirely naked. Body oblong, 

 slightly compressed. Snout not produced. Branchiostegals 6. 

 Teeth in a single row, two anterior canines in each jaw, no posterior 

 canine. Fins: The caudal is slightly emarginate, the upper and 

 lower rays being slightly produced. Pectorals 1.50. Ventrals 

 about 2. Base of anal equal to length of head, 1.66 into base of 

 dorsal. Color in spirits: Grayish with a wash of green, two broad 

 red bands (faded into whitish) from head to caudal fin; another 

 brownish violet band along the back to the caudal fin, the red lines 

 along the sides send up vertical processes joining each other. 

 A broad red line extends from posterior part of orbit obliquely back, 

 branching into two on the opercle. An orange line on lips and 

 another across snout just above the lips. Top of head purplish. 

 A yellowish line across upper boundary of interorbital. Dorsal fin 

 with upper half pea-green, lower half whitish separated by a dusky 

 line. A black spot between 1-3 spines. Anal with upper half 

 }ellowish white, the lower half greenish separated by a dusky line. 

 Pecliorals yellow with black tips. Caudal greenish. One speci- 

 men — length 8 inches, and 8 young, 2-5 inches. Agaiia, Guam, 

 July 14, 1900. Hab. Seas of India, Africa, Poh'iiesia, Marianas. 



148. Julis punctatus sp. nov. 



Head 3.25 ; depth 4 ; eye 6 ; interorbital 4.25 ; D. viii 13 ; 

 A. Ill 10; P. 15; V. I 5. Scales 8-27-2. Head entirely naked. 

 Scales on thorax smaller than on sides. Body oblong, slightly 

 compressed. Teeth in single row, tw^o large canines in each jaw, 



