182 LABRID^. 



several others on the upper side of the head ; another band crosses 

 the nape of the neck and descends to the gill-opening ; vertical fins 

 violet, with the outer portions yellowish. 

 Sea of Jajjan. Batavia. 



a. Half-grown. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 

 4. Julis amblycephalus. 



Julis amblycephalus, Bleek. Natuurk. Tydschr. Ncderl. hid. xi. 185(5, 

 p. 83, and Atl. Ichth. p. 90. tab. 33. fig. 6. 



D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 2/9. 



The height of the body is contained five times and a fourth in 

 the total length (the caudal lobes not included), the length of the 

 head four times and three-fourths. Snout convex, its lower profile 

 ascending in a similar curve to that in which the upper descends. 

 Posterior canine tooth none. Dorsal spines pimgent, shorter than 

 the rays ; caudal with the lobes produced. The length of the ven- 

 tral is three-fifths of that of the pectoral, wliich is shorter than the 

 head. Colours in spirits : the upper two-thirds of the head and 

 body are dark brownish-olive, each scale having a shining vertical 

 streak, the lower white. A very nan-ow blue, dark-edged line runs 

 from the lower angle of the orbit to the axil, a second narrow bluish 

 line across the angle of the pra;operculum. Dorsal fin blackish, an- 

 teriorly black, the soft portion with a narrow whitish margin ; anal 

 immaculate, transparent ; caudal transparent, with the lobes dark 

 olive ; pectoral yellowish, blackish towards its extremity ; a broad 

 triangular black spot at the axil. 



Ceylon, Java, Celebes, Sangi, and Amboyna. 



a. Fine specimen, fifty lines long. From the Collection of the Zoo- 

 logical Society. 

 b Bad state. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



5. Julis melanochir. 



Jidis melanochir, Blcvk. Act. Sac. Sc. Lido-Nedej-l. ii. Aniboinn, viii. 

 p. 77, and Atl. Ichth. p. 89. tab. 33. fig. 2. 



D. ^. A. f,. L. lat. 28. 



The height of th ' body is nearly equ;il to the length of the head, 

 and is contained five times and a quarter in the total. Caudal fin with 

 the angles much produced, one-fourth of the total length. Head 

 violet, ivith two blue, blaclc-edged streaks, the upper from the lower part 

 of the eye to the operculum, the lower from the angle of the mouth 

 to the suboperculum. Body green, each scale with a red transverse 

 streak. Pectoral with a lanje, roundish, black, transverse spot ; ver- 

 tical fins yellow : dorsal with a brown intramarginal Une ; anal blue- 

 edged ; the upper and lower margins of the caudal brownish. 



Amboyna. 



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



