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Julis rosea Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., 1834, p. 709, pi. 15, 



fig. 1. Mauritius. 

 Julis (Julis) oxyrhynchos Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 13, 1857, 



p. 74. Kajeli, Buru. 

 Hologymnosus oxyrhynchos Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, 



p. 97, pi. 33, fig. 4 (type). 

 Coris elongata Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 201. Anei- 



teum, New Hebrides. 

 Coris semipartita Gijnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 203. 



Mauritius. 

 Coris longipes GIInther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 204. Anei- 



teum. 



Depth 3K to 43^; head 2J^ to 33^, width 2^ to 3^. Snout 

 2}4 to 2%; eye 6^4 to 9}^, 2% to 3% in snout, 1^ to 1^ in inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches 3^ to % to snout, 3% to 4}^ in head; 

 interorbital 5}^ to 63^ in head, convex. Gill rakers 6 + 10, short, 

 lanceolate, larger with several accessory points. 



Scales in lateral line 72 to 78, 22 or 23 + 9 or 10; 10 to 12 scales 

 above lateral line, 42 below, 24 to 28 predorsal. Scales with 17 or 

 18 basal radiating striae; apical striae fine, imperfect or obsolete; 

 circuli fine. 



D. IX, 12, I, ninth spine 2]/^ to 3 in head, first ray 2^4 to 2^; 

 A. Ill, 12, I, third spine 3^ to 4, first ray 3 to 3ro; caudal 1% to 

 Ij^, concave, truncate in young; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 33^ to 3%; pectoral \% to \li; ventral 2 to 3. 



Brown, slightly grayish below. Usually pale band behind middle 

 of depressed pectoral transversely. Trunk and tail with 20 vertical 

 narrow grayish bands. Head brownish, with slightly darker band 

 louping from above nostrils down to maxillary and then up to eye; 

 another curves up from middle of cheek to eye along its lower edge 

 and then back to opercular flap, which with slight dusky apical spot 

 above and lower apical edge grayish; also brownish streak from 

 upper hind eye edge toward suprascapula. Fins all brown. Dorsals 

 with 2 submarginal dark brown lines. Anal with darker brown sub- 

 marginal line and median longitudinal brown band. Caudal with 

 several grayish blotches, hind edge with buff crescent. Pectoral 

 brown, dusky basally. Ventral brown, front edge darker. 



Mauritius, East Africa to the East Indies, Melanesia and the 

 Society Islands. We have united Julis {Julis) oxyrhynchos as the 

 young. 



4313. Cruz Point, Bohol. Length, 277 mm. March 25, 1909. (Dr. 5420.) 

 11915. Jolo Market. February 11, 1908. Length, 193 mm. [78.] 

 A. 404. Jolo Market. March 7, 190S. Length, 350 mm. 

 6542. Port Maricaban. July 21, 1908. Length, 280 mm. 



