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of five scales and covers the prseoperciilar limb. Upper lip broad ; 

 jaws rosy, without pointed teeth at the angle. Dorsal spines sub- 

 equal in length; caudal convex or subtruncated ; thii-teen pectoral 

 rays. Green on the anterior half, cofFee-brown on the posterior ; a 

 greenish-yellow band commences at the angle of the mouth, and 

 descends fi-om the inferior margin of the eye towards the base of the 

 pectoral ; the part behind the eye has a broad brown edge superiorly 

 and a narrow reddish one inferiorly. Dorsal red, with a bluish band 

 along the margin and a green one along the middle ; anal red at the 

 base and blue on the margin ; caudal with a broad greenish margin ; 

 pectoral without spot at the axil. (Bl.) 

 New Guinea. 



9. Pseudoscarus javanicus. 



Scarus javanicus, Bleek. Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. vi. p. 198. 

 Pseudoscarus javanicus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. p. 36. tab. 11. iig. 3. 



Three series of scales on the cheek, the lower composed of three 

 scales and covering the praeopercular limb. Upper lip broad ; jaws 

 whitish, with pointed teeth at the angle. The anterior dorsal spines 

 are longer than the posterior ; caudal emarginate ; fourteen pectoral 

 rays. Kosy anteriorly, green posteriorly; eye surrounded by red 

 streaks which radiate from its orbit ; lower lip with two green cross- 

 bands. Dorsal fin brownish-violet along the base, green along the 

 middle, with a blue margin, and with a red longitudinal band below 

 the margin ; anal rosy, blue along the base and margin ; caudal blue, 

 green posteriorly, with a red band along the upper and lower mar- 

 gins. {Bl.) 



^^^'^- 10. Pseudoscarus rivulatus. 



Scarus fasciatus, Cuv. 8f Val. xiv. p. 222. 



rivulatus, Cuv. ^- Val. xiv. p. 223. 



rividatoides, Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Gen. xxii. Lahr. Cycl. p. 55. 



micrognathus, Bleek. I. c. p. 56. 



Pseudoscarus rivulatiis, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. p. 44. tab. 9. fig. 3. 



Two series of scales on the cheek and two scales on the lower 

 praeopercular Hmb ; the middle series composed of six scales. Upper 

 lip broad. Jaws whitish, each with two small pointed teeth at the 

 comer ; teeth of moderate size. Anterior dorsal spine shortest ; 

 fourteen or fifteen pectoral rays * ; caudal subtruncated. Green, 

 each scale with a reddish margin ; snout and the lower half of the 

 head reddish, the former with rather numerous undulated green lines. 

 A narrow green band along the base and margin of the dorsal fin, 

 and an irregular band of the same colour, or series of spots, along its 

 middle. Anal green, Kghter towards the margin, which is broadly 

 ed^ed with dark-green. Caudal with irregular green spots. 



East Indies. 



a. Adult : skin. 



6. Half-gi"own : stuflfed. From the Collection of the East India 

 Company. 

 * Bleeker states fourteen ; the specimen m the British Museum has fifteen. 



