;^5. coKis. 203 



14. Coris cingulum. 



Ivabrus cingulum, Lacep. iii. p. 517. pi. 28. Hg. 1. 



Jiilis semipunctatus, /iwyj/;. N. W. Fische, p. 12. taf. 3. fig. 3. 



liabrus aureo-maculatus, licnn. Fisli. Ceyl. pi. 20. 



Julis cingulum, Cuv. ^- Val. xiii. p. 428. 



D. :^. A. y^. L. lat. 60. L. transv. 6/28. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is one- 

 fourth of the total. Posterior canine tooth none. Caudal rounded. 

 The fii'st ventral ray produced. Head and anterior part of the body 

 brownish-olive, tail brown, both colours being separated by a pale 

 cross-band which is situated at the end of the pectoral. Head with 

 scattered small blue (brown) spots ; a black spot on the extremity 

 of the operculum, another superiorlj^ at the axil. 



Var. a. Back of the tail uniform dark-brown ; vertical fins black- 

 ish-violet, Avith series of black spots and with white margins. 



New Hebrides. 

 a. Adult: stuffed. Aneiteum. From Mr. Macgilhvray's Collection. 



Var. ft. Tail light-brownish-olive, with two large brown blotches 

 on the back ; basal half of the vertical fins light-bi'ownish-olive, 

 with brown dots, and separated by a brown band from the broad 

 margin, which is yellowish. 



Red Sea. Mauritius. 



Var. y. Like var. ft, but the blotches on the back of the tail are red. 

 Ceylon. 



15. Coris semipartita. 



D. 4 A. :^. L. lat. 12S. 



The height of the body is contained fotir times and a half in the 

 total length, the length of the head three times and three-fourths ; 

 the length of the pectoral is more than one-half of that of the head. 

 Posterior canine tooth none ; eye small, one-tenth of the length of 

 the head. Dorsal spines flexible, not produced, the ninth being the 

 longest, one-third of the length of the head. Caudal fin croscent- 

 shnped, the middle of the crescent being rather convex ; ventral 

 pointed, slighth/ prolontjed, its leiajfh being two-thirds of that of the 

 pectoral. Dark-grcenish-olive in spirits, with numerous in(hstinct 

 naiTow vertical stripes, and ^\'ith a light-green vertical band on the 

 middle of the distance of the snout from the base of the caudal, below 

 the two first soft dorsal rays. Head with a dark band from the 

 orbit to the snout, with another from the orbit to the scapula, and 

 with a third, short, horizontal, from below the loAver margin of the 

 orbit ; a fourth from the orbit towards the occiput ; operculum ^Wtli 

 a dark irregular blotch ; subopercular flap with a black superior 

 margin. Vertical fins dark violet : dorsal and anal with the margin 

 yellow and with a bluish-black line within the margin ; the soft 

 dorsal and anal l)csides with a greenish (?) band along their outer 

 half. The inner half of the caudal fin is yellow, this coloiu' forming 



