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Julis leschenaulti Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 453, 



Mauritius. — Guichenot, Notes I. Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 28. 

 Julis clegavs (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



vol. 13, 1839, p. 467. Java. 

 Julis (Halichoeres) phaiotaenia Bleekek, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 8, 



1855, p. 322. Batu Archipelago. 

 Julis crucntatus (Van Hasselt) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Necrl., vol. 1. 



1862, p. 136 (name in synonymy). 

 Platyglossus alternans Cartier, Verb. Phys. Med. Ges. Wiirzburg, vol. 5, 



1874, p. 104. Cebu and Panglao. — ^Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 



1895, p. 553 (Cebu, Panglao). 

 Platyglossus (Gnntheria) pagenstacheri Kossmann and Rauber, Zool. 



Ergebn. K. Acad. Wiss, Berlin, vol. 1, 1877, p. 25, pi. 1, fig. 5. Red Sea. 

 Pseudojulis ziczac De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, 1884, 



p. 882. Murray Island, Queensland. 

 Halichoeres cymatogrammus Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 28, 1905, p. 786, fig. 8. Negros, Philippines. 



Depth 3 3/^ to 33^; head 3 to 33/g, width 23^7 to 2}i. Snout 2}4 

 to 2J4', eye 4^ to 6, lf/5 to 23^5 in snout, 1 to 13^ in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches % to ^ to eye, 3% to 4 in head; interorbital 4 to 

 5, convex. Gill rakers 8 + 12, lanceolate, short. 



Scales in lateral line 20 or 21, 5+ 1 ; 3 or 4 scales above lateral line; 

 9 below, 6 to 8 predorsal. Scales with 39 to 44 basal radiating 

 striae, apical 17 to 29; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 11,1, ninth spine 33^ to 3J/8 in head, first ray 23^ to 2^; 

 A. Ill, 11, I, third spine 434 to 6%, first ray 33^ to 3)^; caudal 

 1% to 1^5, little convex behind, more so as expanded; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 23^ to 23^; pectoral 13^ to 1%; ventral 114 to 1%. 



Pale olive brown above, becoming whitish below. Each scale on 

 back and sides above with pale blue median crescentic blotch, 

 variable and in some smaller examples so extensive as to form a well 

 developed longitudinal dark band, when most of other markings 

 fade out. On head broad, cuneate, pale blue blotch on snout, 

 another below eye and variable pale blue blotch, blotches or band 

 behind eye; also variably several pale blue spots or bars on opercle. 

 Iris pale yellowish. Dorsal pale brown, with median longitudinal 

 buff band and soft fin with marginal buff band. Anals transparent 

 with white longitudinal subbasal band and submedian outer line of 

 gray. Caudal pale brown, with about 5 variable, waved vertical 

 whitish lines. Paired fins uniformly pale, with slight inconspicuous 

 pale or whitish spot at pectoral axil. 



Red Sea, Zanzibar, Natal, Mauritius, India, East Indies, Queens- 

 land, Melanesia, Samoa. Possibly Pseudojulis murrayensis De Vis,^° 

 incompletely described, may be the present species. It is said to 

 have the anal with 4 small bright black spots on each web. Dorsals 

 with fainter spots, more or less confluent on the spinous portion into 

 oblique bands. 



" Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, 1884, p. 882. Murray Island. 



