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to the base of the caudal ; a red streak from the angle of the mouth 

 to the suboperciilum ; the space between the brown band and red 

 streak is bluish, dotted with red ; dorsal and anal fins with a bluish 

 longitudinal band, and with three or two series of red spots ; caudal 

 fin with interrupted red transverse lines. 

 Japanese and Chinese Seas. 



a. Adult : mounted. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



29. LEPTOJULIS. 



Leptojulis, Bleek. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1801, p. 412. 



Body compressed, slender, covered with scales of moderate size 

 (L. lat. less than 30) ; head naked ; lateral line not interrupted ; 

 scales on the thorax smaller than those on the body. Four anterior 

 canine teeth in each jaw, the outer enlarged, bent outwards and 

 backwards ; a posteiior canine tooth. Dorsal spines nine. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



1. Leptojulis cyanopleura. 



Bkeker, Batavia, p. 489, and Atl. Ichth. p. 128. tab. 36. fig. 5. 

 D. l^. A. ^. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 21/9. 



The height of the body is one-fifth or rather less than one-fifth of 

 the total length, the length of the head one-fourth. Caudal rounded. 

 Green, with a broad red, blue-edged band running from the snout to 

 the caudal ; a large deep-blue blotch behind the pectoral and below 

 the lateral hne ; head ^dth two red, blue-edged bands along its lower 

 side ; a forked blue spot before the dorsal fin ; the soft dorsal with 

 blue margin, with a red band along the middle and -with a basal 

 series of red spots ; anal blue-edged. 



Sea of Batavia. 



a. Fine specimen. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



2. Leptojulis pyrrhogrammatoides. 



Bleeker, Batavia, p. 490, and Atl. Ichth. p. 129. tab. 36. fig. 1. 

 D. :^. A. j^. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 2i/10. 



The height of the body is contained five times in the total length, 

 the length of the head four times and two-thirds. Caudal roimded. 

 Green, with two broad brownish bands, the one along the back, and 

 the other from the eye to the caudal ; anal with yeUow spots along 

 the base ; the other fins immaculate. Xoarly uniform brownish (in 

 spirits). 



Sea of Batavia. 



f(. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



