35. coRis. 195 



Cheilio auratus, ( Commers.) Lacep. iv. p. 433 ; Quoy ^ Gaim. Voy. 



Umn. Zool. p. -274. pi. 54. fig. 2; Cm. Sf Val. xiii. p. 341 ; Bleek. 



Celebes, i. p. 221. 



fiiscus, (Contmer.s.) Lacep. iv. p. 433; Cuv. ^- Val. xiii. p. 349. 



Labnis fusifomiis, Riipp. X. W. Fischc, p. 7. pi. 1. fig. 4. 

 Cheilio cyanochlori.s, Cur. Sj- Val. xiii. p. 34(3. pi. 382. 



forslialii, Cuv. 8f Val. xiii. p. 349. 



liemichrvsos, Cm: ^- Val. xiii. p. 351 ; Bleek. Bamln, i. p. 255. 



viridis, Cm. !<,• Val. xiii. p. 352. 



? Cheilio microstoma, Ci(i\ Sf Val. xiii. p. 353. 

 Cheilio ramosus, Jent/iis, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, p. 102. 



bicolor, Btanc. Spec. Zool. Mcwmh. p. 254. tab. 5. 



inemiis, Bkek. All. Ichth. p. 82. tab. 31. fig. 4. 



D-I^,- A.li|. L.lat. 45-50. 



The height of the body is one-ninth or one-tenth of tlie total 

 length, the length of the head two-sevenths. Generally a brown 

 streak or a series of brown spots along the lateral line. 



From the eastern coasts of Africa to the Western Pacific. 



a. Adult. Mozambique. From the Berlin iluseum. 

 6. Adult. Macassar. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



c. Half-grown. Amboyna. Pui'chased of Mr. Frank. 



d. Fine specimen. Philippine Islands. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 



e. Adult : stuffed. Aneiteura. From Mr. Macgilliyi-ay's Collection. 



35. CORIS*. 



Coris, Ilologymuosus, Labrus, sp., Lacep. 

 Halichcere.9, sp., RUppell. 

 Jiilis, sp.. Cur. ^- Val. 



Coris, Crunth. Ann. S,- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1861, viii. p. 887. 

 Holog^mnosus, Pseudocoris, Coris, Hemicoris, et Ophtbalmolepis, 

 Bleek. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, pp. 410-413. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with small scales (L. lat. 50 or 

 more); head entirely naked f ; lateral line not interrupted. Dorsal 

 spines nine. 



Mediterranean and the neighbouring parts of the Atlantic. Indian 

 and Australian Seas. Polynesia. 



1. Coris julis. 



Julis, Rondel, vi. cap. 7. p. 180 ; Salvian. p. 219 ; Gesner, Aquat. iv. 



p. 464 ; Aldrov. i. c. 7. p. 39 ; Jonston, i. tit. 2. cap. 1. art. 5. tab. 14. 



tig. 3 ; Wilhighbij, p. 324. pi. 10. fig. 1 ; Ray, Syn. p. 138. 

 Labrus, no. 7, Aiiedi, Gen. p. 34, and no. 1. Synon. p. 53. 



• 1. Labrus ornatiis, Carmich. Linn. Trans, sii. 1818, pi. 27. — Julis ornatus, 

 Cur. i,- Val. xiii. p. 487, appears to me to belong rather to the Trachi- 

 7ud(B. perhaps to the group Pinguipedina, than to tlie present family. — 

 Tristan d'Acuuha. 

 2. Renard, fol. 9. no. 62. — Julis crythropterus. Cm: ^- Val. xiii. p. 464. — 

 East Indies 

 •■ Except in C. lintolatu. 



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