174 LABRID.i:. 



B. Cheek with two or three series of scales ; no anterior di^dsiou of the 

 dorsal tin. 



13. Novacula macrolepidota. 



Lahrus macrolepidotiis, Bl. taf. 284. 



arago, Quoy ^ Gaitn. Voy. XJran. Zool. Poiss. p. 263. pi. G5. tig. 2 



(very bad). 

 Julis tfeuianotiis, Quoy (^ Gaitn. I. c. p. 271. 



trimaculata, Cui\ 4' f^«'- xiii. p. 886. 



Xyrichthys macrolepidotus, Cuv. ^ Val, xiv. p. 59; Peters, Wiegm. 



'Arch. 1855, p. 264. 

 arago, Stemdachner, Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1861, 



p. 136. taf. 4. fig. 1. 

 Novaciila jidioides, Bleek. Banda, i. p. 254. 

 Novaculicnthys macrolepidotiis, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. p. . tab. 31. fig. 6. 



^- ilTTi- ^- iiiii- L. lat. 25. L. transv. 3/9. Vert. 10/15. 



The upper profile of the head obtuse. Two series of very small 

 scales below the eye ; the two first dorsal spines are flexible, not pro- 

 duced, somewhat remote from the third, the membrane between the 

 second and third not being notched ; the outer ventral ray is produced 

 into a long filament. Keddish-rosecoloured : head with three broad 

 brown bands radiating from the posterior part of the orbit, the upper 

 ascending to the neck, the lower descending to the subopercidum; 

 opercular lobe brown; a more or less interrupted band along the 

 middle of the tail, and an oblong spot above the pectoral. A blackish- 

 violet spot on the thorax, before the root of the ventral ; a deep-black 

 spot between the two fu'st dorsal spines ; outer half of the dorsal and 

 anal with oblique undulated lines. 



Coast of Mozambique, East Indian Archipelago, New Guinea, 

 Waigiou. 



a-h. Adult. Mozambique. From Prof. Peters's Collection. 



c. Adult : skeleton. Mozambique. From Prof. Peters's Collection. 



d. Half-grown. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection as Novacula 



jidioides. 



C. Cheek scaly ; no anterior di\-ision of the dorsal fin. 



14. Novacula bimaculata. 



Xyrichthys bimacidata, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 43. taf. 10. fig. 2. 



Cheeks scaly ; the two anterior dorsal spines are flexible, produced, 

 continuous with the remainder of the fin. Red : a black spot on 

 each side ; no spot behind the eye ; dorsal fin with undulated red 

 streaks ; anal violet, with undulated yellowish lines ; caudal with 

 brownish-red transverse streaks. (Riipp.) 



Massaua. 



Xyrichthys virens (Parkins.), Cuv, & Val. xiv. p. 47, from Otaheiti, 

 appears to belong to this di\'ision ; the drawing, on which the spe- 



