202 LABEID^E. 



operculum red ; extremity of the operculum blue. Vertical fins with 

 green margins. Dried specimens nearly uniform black. 

 Red Sea. Maui'itius. Australia. 



a. Nineteen inches long : stuffed. Red Sea. Presentedby J. Burton, 



Esq. 

 h. Adult : stuffed. Red Sea. From Dr. E. Riippell's Collection. 



c. Twenty-three inches long : stuffed. India. From the Collection 



of the Zoological Society. 



d. Adult : stuffed. Australia. From Mr. Gould's Collection. 



13. Coris annulata. 



Valent. fig. 308. 



Labrus annidatus, Lacep. iii. pp. 455, 526. pi. 28. fig. 3. 



semidiscus, Lacejy. iii. pp. 429, 472. pi. 6. fig. 2. 



doliatus, Lacep. iii. p. 429. pi. 6. fig. 3. 



HologjTnnosus fasciatus, Lacep. iii. p. 557. pi. 1. fig. 3 ; Bleek. Proc. 



Zool Soc. 1861, p. 410, and Atl. Ichth. p. 96. tab. 20. 

 Julis rosea, Quoy 8f Gaim. Voy. Astrol. iii. p. 709, Poiss. pi. 15. fig. 1. 



doliatus, Cuv. ^ Vol. xiii. p. 504. 



annulatus, Cuv. ^- Veil. xiii. p. 501. pi. 388 ; Bleek. Celeb, viii. p. 31 1 . 



D.^. A.^. L.lat.l20. 



The height of the body is one-fifth of the total length, the length 

 of the head two-sevenths ; the length of the pectoral is equal to, or 

 rather less than, one-half of that of the head. Posterior canine tooth 

 none. Upper lip broad, folded ; the lower broad, pendent, not con- 

 tinuous with that of the other side. Ajiterior dorsal spines not pro- 

 duced ; caudal with two slight notches ; ventyml pointed, not prolonged, 

 much shorter than the pectoral. The upper part of the extremity of 

 the suhopercadum tvith an oblong blacJc spot. Body with vertical 

 bands ; head with rather irregular green bands. 



Indian Ocean. 



Var. a. Body with numerous darker vertical stripes, without distinct 

 white cross-band. The basal half of the dorsal fin with large roimd 

 whitish spots, each suiTounded by a violet crescent posteriorly ; the 

 upper half with two or three longitudinal lines. Anal nearly imiform, 

 with a fine intramarginal line. 



a, b-c. Adult. Mauritius. From the Collection of the Zoological 

 Society. 



d. Adult : not good state. Seychelles. From the Haslar Collection. 



Var. /3. Body with numerous blue, brown-edged vertical stripes ; 

 a broad white cross-band, descending from between the third and 

 eighth dorsal spines ; a black band before the white one. Dorsal 

 fin violet, with a series of low, semicircular white spots along the 

 base ; margin reddish-white, with a violet longitudinal line ; anal 

 with a series of light-violet rings along the base, with a broad light- 

 violet band along tlic middle, and with the margin dark- violet. 



e. Adult. Mauritius. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



Var. y. Rose-coloured, with the vertical stripes very indistinct. 

 Mauritius. 



