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and one- fourth of the total. A few small scales behind the orbit; a 

 posterior canine tooth. Caudal rounded ; ventral pointed ; dorsal 

 spines very slender and flexible. A broad light band, with a blackish 

 one above or below, runs from the operculum to the caudal ; body with 

 longitudinal series of blue dots ; head with curved blue transverse 

 lines. Dorsal with four violet longitudinal lines and with a violet 

 spot between the second and third spines. 

 Coasts of West AustraKa. 



a. Adult : skin. Swan River. 



h-g. Adult and half-grown : skins. Australia. 



h. Half-grown. From the Haslar CoUection. 



36. CYMOLUTES. 



Xyi'ichthys, sp., Cuv. 4" Val. 



Novacula, sp., Steindachner in VerhancU. Zoo!. Bot. Gesellsch. Wlcn, 1861 

 p. 133. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered -with small scales ; snout rather 

 elevated ; head naked ; lateral line interrupted. No posterior canine 

 tooth. Formula of the fins : D. -?- . A. ?-^ . 



12-14 12-14 



Indian Seas. Western Pacific. 



1. Cymolutes praetextatus. 



Julis prsetextata, Qiioy Sf Gaim. Voy. Astral. Poiss. p. 712. pi. 15. fig. 4; 



Cuv. ^' Val. xiii. p. 505. 

 Xyi-icbtliys torquatus, Cuv. Sf Val. xiv. p. 54. pi. 392. 



novaculoides, Sleek. Amhoina, iii. p. 122. 



Novacula xW\chXh.joii.e!i,Bleek.Natuurk.Tydschr.Nederl.Ind. x. p.488. 

 CjTnolutes prtetextatiis, Giinth. Ann.^ Mag.Nat.Hist. 1861, viii. p.387; 



Bleek. All. Ichth. p. 146. tab. 31. fig. 1. 



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



Greenish, with a brownish-black, blue-edged band across the 

 shoulder. 



Celebes, Amboyna, Java, Mauritius. 



a~h. Fine specimens. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



2. Cymolutes leclusii. 



XjTichthys lechise, Quoy^- Gaim.Voy. Uraii. Zool. p. 284. pi. 65. fig.l. 

 microlepidotus, Cuv. Sf V(d. xiv. p. 52. 



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



Uniform brownish. 

 Sandwich Islands. 



