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b^. Lower flanks with scales edged pearly; pectoral base with transverse 

 violet band; caudal peduncle with 2 small black spots, ocellated 



with blue axillaris. 



&'. Lower flanks with longitudinal rows of small white spots; body above 

 with blue dots. 

 c*. Dorsal dotted blue; pectoral base with transverse violet band; caudal 



with brown median basal spot phekadopleura. 



c*. Dorsal with oblique blue streaks; pectoral and caudal bases without 



band or blotch kalosoma. 



h*. Band below pectoral base longitudinallj' reaches only little beyond 



pectoral base interrupta. 



a*. Rhttejulis, new subgenus. Thoracic scales greatly enlarged; back, 

 head and middle of side at least with narrow rose-violet longitudinal 

 bands, 

 d'. No band below pectoral; inferior body band extends from pectoral 



axil to caudal base albovittata, 



d^. Band below pectoral begins at gill-opening and reaches opposite 



anal origin renardi. 



d'. Band from snout to caudal passes above pectoral and reaches caudal 

 base trilineata. 



Subgenus Stethojulis Giinther 



Thoracic scales little larger than others. Lower flanks with 

 longitudinal bands or small white spots. When present, longitudinal 

 bands above median axis of body incomplete. 



STETHOJULIS STRIGIVENTER (Bennett) 



Julis strigiventer Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. London, 1832, p. 184. 

 Mauritius. — Peters, Arch. Naturg., 1855, p. 263 (Mozambique). 



Stethojulis strigiventer Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 135, 

 pi. 43, fig. 1 (Bawean, Singapore, Lepar, Biliton, Celebes, Ternate, Buru, 

 Amboina, Ceram, Banda, Timor, Letti). — GtJNXHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 140 (Mauritius, Mozambique, Amboina, Port 

 Essington). — Kner, Reise Novara, Fisch., vol. 2, 1865, p. 252 (Pujnipet). — 

 Gunther, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 92 (Zanzibar). — Peters, Monatsb. 

 Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 443 (Mauritius). — Alletne and Macleay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 1, 1876, p. 345 (Low Island, 

 Queensland).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 397, pi. 84, fig. 7 

 (Andamans). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. GodefFroy, vol. 7 (15), 1881, p. 254 

 (Pelew Islands, Fiji, Vavau, Samoa, Ponape, Wallis Island, East Africa). — 

 KXroli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 174 (Singapore). — 

 Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 36 (Cebu).— Day, 

 Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 403, fig. 138.— Elera, Cat. Fauna 

 Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 551 (Cebu). — Ishikawa and Matsuura, Prelim. 

 Cat. of Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 29 (Japan). — Steindachner, Abhandl. 

 Senckenberg. Gesell., vol. 25, 1900, p. 442 (Ternate). — Jordan and Sny- 

 der, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, 1902, p. 63 (Riu Kui). — Jordan and 

 Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 265 (Cuyo).— 

 Franz, Abhandl. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., vol. 4, Suppl. vol. 1, 1910, p. 53 

 (Yokohama). — Weber, Abhandl. Senckenberg. Gesell., vol. 34 (1), 1911, 

 p. 8 (Kei Islands).— Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 420 

 (Tanegashima), p. 507 (Okinawa). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 

 1913, p. 370 (Rotti).— Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, June 18, 1918, p. 64 

 (Philippines). 



