22. CHEILINUS. 131 



12. Cheilinus bimaculatus. 

 Cuv. Sf Val. xiv. p. 9G. 



The height of the body is two-sevenths of the total length ; caudal 

 rounded, with the middle rays produced. Head with green lines ; 

 two series of brown dots above, and a band formed by reticulated 

 green lines below, the lateral line. A bluish-black spot behind the 

 eye, and another black one on the side, on the sixth series of scales. 

 Dorsal with a black margin ; margins of the anal and caudal black- 

 ish with lighter dots. {Val.) 



Sandwich Islands. 



13. Cheilinus mentalis. 



Riijip. Atl. Fische, p. 24. 



The height of the body is much less than one-third of the total 

 length, or than the length of the head ; lower jaw prominent ; caudal 

 truncated. Reddish, with a reddish-brown spot at the base of each 

 scale ; a large blackish spot behind the upper end of the giU-opening ; 

 fins reddish, with irregular brown spots along the rays. {Riipp.) 



Massaua. 



14. Cheilinus radiatus. 



Valent. fig. 176. 



Spanis radiatus, Bl. Schn. p. 270. tab. 56. 



Labrus diagramma, Lacep. iii. pp. 448, 517. 



Cheiliuiis commersonii, Benn. Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. p. 167. 



coccineiLS, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 23. 



diagramma, Cuv. i^- Val. xiv. p. 98 ; Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Ge- 



nootsch. xxii. Lahr. p. 38. 

 radiatus, Bleek. Atl. Ickth. p. 68. tab. 26. fig. 1. 



D. \. A. -. L. lat. 23. 



10 H 



The height of the body is less than the length of the head, and 

 is contained thrice and three-fourths in the total. Snout somewhat 

 produced and pointed, compressed. Anterior canine teeth strong. 

 Caudal fin subtruncated ; ventral rounded. Body uniform reddish 

 or greenish ; snout with wliitish lines ; the lower part of the gill- 

 apparatus and of the cheek with oblique brown lines ; the spinous 

 dorsal clouded with brownish, the soft violet at the base ; caudal 

 green, with the upper and lower margins bro-miish. 



From the eastern coasts of Africa to the "Western Pacific. 



a. Fine specimen. Moluccas. 



h. Half-grown. Moluccas. From the Leyden Museum as Ch. la- 



crifmans. 

 c, d. Half-grown. Araboyna. 

 e-f. Adult: stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago. Voyage of H.M.S. 



Rattlesnake. 

 g. Adult : stufted. Cape Flattery (N.E. Australia). From Mr. 



Macgilli^Tav's Collection. 



