32. juLis. 183 



6. Julis aneitensis. 

 D. ■^. A. ^. L. lat. 28. L. transv. 3/9. 



The height of the bodj- equals the length of the head, and is some- 

 what more than one-fifth of the total ; the outer caudal rays pro- 

 duced into filaments ; the length of the ventral is two-thirds of that 

 of the pectoral in half-grown specimens, three-fourths in adult. 

 Colours of dried specimens : anterior part of the back and thorax 

 brownish-olive ; body greenish, each scale Avith a vertical streak ; 

 head violet, with three r/reen bands edged with darker : the upper 

 from the eye to the origin of the lateral line, the middle from below 

 the eye to the hind part of the subopercidum, the lower from the 

 angle of the mouth to the suboperculum ; sometimes a fourth on the 

 interoperculum. Pectoral with a broad oblique black band across its 

 posterior half, and with a black spot in the axil ; a black spot between 

 the second and third dorsal spines : two fine broivn lines run along the 

 whole length of the dorsal, one along its base, and the other above the 

 middle of its height ; they are the edges of a broad brownish band 

 running along the middle of the fin : anal with a similur line running 

 nearer to its base than to its nuirgin, and separating the brown basal 

 portion from the green outer one. A yeUow band along the upper 

 and lower margins of the caudal. 



North-east coast of Australia. New Hebrides. Norfolk Island. 



a-b. Nine inches long : stufted. Aneiteum. From Mr. Macgillivray's 

 CoUectiou. 



c. Eleven inches long : stuffed. Cato Island (N.E. Australia). From 



the Collection of F. M. Rayner, Esq. 



d. Adidt. Norfolk Island. From the Haslar Collection. 



7. Julis genivittata. 



Labrus argentatus, var., Lace/), iii. pi. 18. fig. 1. 

 Julis genivittata, Cia\ <^ Tal. xiii. p. 416. 

 commersoni, Cuv. ^- Vol. xiii. p. 418. 



Caudal lobes produced. Pectoral tuith a blackish spot, darkest on 

 the margin of the fin. Green : head with bands, two of which are 

 ciirved, on the cheek below the eye, and another behind the eye. 

 Each scale on the body with a vertical streak ; no light cross-band 

 behind the pectoral ; dorsal and anal with the base brown and the 

 margin green; caudal green, the middle of the margin lighter. Dorsal 

 fin sometimes with a longitudinal band along the middle. ( Val.) 



Mauritius ; lied 8ea. 



a-b. Adult: stuffed. Red Sea. Presented by .T. Rurton. Esq. 

 S. Julis melanoptera. 



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IT' 

 Tlie height of the bodv is a little more tlian the leni;th of the 



D. ^. A. ,^. L. lat. 27. L. transv. ^, 



