188 LABRID^. 



Var. a. Head uniform, without bands ; belly and the lower third of 

 the tail reddish, separated from the blue ground-colour by a red band 

 extending from the lower part of the axil to the inferior caudal lobe. 

 The middle red band emits vertical lines upwards and downwards into 

 the blue ground-colour. (Jul. trilobattis siad formosus, Valenc. Jul. 

 hicatenatus, Benn.) 



fl. Half-grown : stuffed. South Africa. Purchased of Mr. Warwick. 



b. Half-grown. Mauritius. Purchased of Mr. Gerrard.— Type of 



Julis hicatenatus. 



c. Half-grown. Anciteum. From Mr. Macgillivi'ay's Collection. 



d. Half- grown: stuffed. Aneiteum. From Mr. MacgHlivray's Col- 



lection. 



We consider two specimens which are very dark- coloured, and 

 which, in a dried state, have the head uniform blackish, as the young 

 of this variety. The markings of the body, by which the species is 

 characterized, are well preserved. 



e-f. Seven inches long : stuffed. Aneiteum. From Mr. MacgiUivray's 

 Collection. 



Var. ft. Entirely green : head with a red triangular spot before the 

 eye, and with an oblique red band from the eye to the suboperculum, 

 where it is bifurcate ; another forked band below the base of the 

 pectoral ; body with three longitudinal bands, the two lower of which 

 are red. (Jut. quadricolor, Less. J. semicoeruleiis, E-iipp. J. cerugi- 

 nosus and cyanogaster, Valenc.) 



g~h. Adult : stuffed. Aneiteum. From ^Mr. MacgiUivray's Collection. 

 i, Ic. Adult and half-grown : very bad state. China. Presented by 



Sir J. Richardson. 

 l-m. Adult and half-growTi : stuffed. Red Sea. From Dr. Riippell's 



Collection. 



Var. y. Like var. ft, but six red bands radiate from the eye and 

 extend all over the head. (Labrus formosus, Solander, or Julis ery- 

 throgaster, Valenc.) 



Otaheiti. TJlea. 



Valenciennes has incorrectly quoted the manuscript of Solander 

 and the drawings of fishes made by the companions of Captain Cook. 

 The three cka wings which represent the present species were not 

 executed by Forster, but by Parkinson on the first voyage of the 

 celebrated navigator. Two of them reprjesent our second varietj' ; 

 Solander also considered them as belonging to one species, which he 

 intended to call Labrus vittatus ; the one with green belly he named 

 L. vitt. cyanogaster, and the other with reddish belly L. vitt. erythro- 

 gaster. Hence it is evident that oiu- second variety may have the 

 belly reddish, like our fii'st ; or, in other words, that there are speci- 

 mens with maculated head and with the belly green or reddish. The 

 third drawing is from an immatm-e specimen, named by Solander 

 Labrus formosus, and identical with oiu' var. y. 



