200 I-ADRID.E. 



b. Adult : stuffed. Mauritius. From M. Desjardine's Collection. 



c. Adult : stuffed. Aneiteum. From Mr. Macgillivray's Collection. 



— Uniform blackish-violet. 



8. Coris gaimardi. 



Vuleiit. fig. 337 ; Renard, ii. figs. 9, 59, 154. 



Julis gaimardi, Quoy 8f Gaim. Voy. Uran. Zool. p. 265. pi. 54. fig. 1 ; 



Cuv. ^ Veil. xiii. p. 500 (not synon.). 

 Coris gaimardi, Gilnth. Ann. 8f May. Nat. Hist. 1861, viii. p. 387 ; Sleek. 



Atl Ichth. p. 99. tab. 19. fig. 2. 



D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 80. 



The height of the body is rather more than one-fourth of the total 

 length. A posterior canine tooth. Upper lip broad, with folds ; the 

 lower not continuous with that of the other side, pendent. The 

 anterior dorsal spine produced ; caudal subtnincated ; ventral long, 

 pointed. Carmine-red, darker anteriorly ; tail with numerous blue 

 dots, disposed in longitudinal series. A large yellow blotch behind 

 the pectoral. A green undulated band from the orbit to the first 

 dorsal spine ; a blue curved band from one eye to the other ; two 

 violet bands on the side of the head ; vertical fins yellow, with very 

 small dots on the base ; dorsal and anal fins wnth two or three blue 

 lines along the margins ; axil black. 



Sandwich Islands. Timor. 



rt. Adult: skin. Copang. (=J^m/!'s raM(^i»?iar?(Za, var., Richards.) 



9. Coris pulcheirima. 



Valent. iii. p. 458. fig. 355; Renard, i. tab. 2. fig. 11. 



Julis formosus, (Swains.') Bleeh. Celeb, iv. p. 1G9 (not Benn.). 



Coris formosa, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. p. 99. tab. 19. tig. 3. 



D.^. A.^. L. lat. 84. 



The height of the body is one-fourlh of the total length. No pos- 

 terior canine tooth. Anterior dorsal .spine produced ; caudal rounded ; 

 ventral long, pointed. Head brownish-yellow ; body brownish-violet, 

 darker posteriorly ; tiimk with scattered small blue ocelli, which 

 become more numerous on the tail, where they are disposed in irre- 

 gular longitudinal series. A series of blue sj^ots runs from the eye to 

 the origin of the dorsal fin, and are more or less confluent into a 

 narrow stripe ; a single blue stripe along the median line of the fore- 

 head and nape ; two broad reddish-violet bands on the side of the 

 head. Fins yellow : dorsal andj^nal edged with blue and with two or 

 three series of blue ocelli ; axil black ; ventral with the outer margin 

 blue. Dorsal with a brown blotch anteriorly at the base. 



Celebes, Amboyna, Tabitti. New Hebrides. 



a. Fine specimen. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



b. Adult. Tabitti. From Mr. Stutchbury's Collection. 



c. Half-grown: stuffed. Anoiteum. From Mr. Macgillivray's Col- 



lection. 



