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d^. Side of head without bhie bands; black blotch on opercular flap and 



sometimes at caudal base philippina. 



c*. Body with 5 or 6 yellow longitudinal bands, lower giving place to 



uniform pink with age flavovittata. 



b^. JuLis. Scales 72 to 76; caudal yellow; tail and caudal peduncle with 

 white or sky-blue spots, most numerous on latter gaimard. 



CORIS ANGULATA Lacepede 



Coris angulatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 90, 96, pi. 4. 

 fig. 2. No locality. 



Coris aijgula Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 96, 97, pi. 4, fig. 1. 

 No locality (on Commerson). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 

 1862, p. 201 (Red Sea, India, Australia). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. 

 Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 539 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Peters, Monatsb. 

 Akad. Wiss. BerUn, 1876, p. 443 (Mauritius). — Day, Fishes of India, 

 pt. 3, 1877, p. 408, pi. 88, fig. 5; Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 418.— 

 Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, 1902, p. 641, fig. 9. 

 (Wakanoura). — Ogilby, Commerc. Fish. Fisher. Queensland, 1915. 

 (North Queensland). 



Julis aygula Ruppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Air., Fische, 1828, p. 25, pi. 6, fig. 3 

 (Gulf of Setie, Red Sea). 



Labrus cingulum Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, p. 517, pi. 28, 

 fig. 1. Mauritius. 



Julis cingulum Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 428 

 Mauritius. 



Coris cingulum Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 203 (Anei- 

 teum and Mauritius). — ^Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 

 1871, p. 539 (Red Sea). — Gunther, Cruise of Curacoa, Brenchley, 1873, 

 p. 410 (Solomons). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 443 

 (Mauritius).— GtJNTHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 280, 

 pi. 145 (Society, Friendly, and Solomon Islands, Aneiteum, Upolo). 



Julis ruppelii Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1831, p. 128. Mauritius 

 (on Ruppell). 



Labrus aureomaculatus Bennett, Fishes of Ceylon, 1834, pi. 20. Ceylon. 



Julis gibbifrons Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 3, 1834, p. 

 707, pi. 19, fig, 3. Mauritius. 



Julis semipunctatus Ruppell, Neue Wirb., Fische, 1835, p. 12, pi. 3, fig. 3. 

 Mohila, Red Sea. 



Julis coris Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 491. Mauritius. 



Coris cyanea Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, 1882, p. 

 588. New Guinea. 



Depth 2% to 3; head 2^ to 33^, width 2li to 2%. Snout 2}i 

 to 33^; eye 7}^ to 9^, 2}^ to 3% in snout, 1 J^ to 2^ in interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches % to eye, 33^ to 4% in head; interorbital 43^ to 

 4%, convex, with slight convex prominence above eye. Gill rakers 

 7 + 11 or 12, lanceolate, short, some larger with 1 to several acces- 

 sory points. 



Scales in lateral line 51 or 52, 10 to 12 + 3 to 5; 9 to 12 scales above 

 lateral line, 22 to 25 below, 19 or 20 predorsal. Scales with 28 to 

 46 basal radiating striae; apical obsolete or very feeble; circuli fine. 



