22. CHEILINirS. 131 



12. Cheilinus bimaculatus. 



Cuv. Sf Val. xiv. p. 96. 



The height of the body is two-sevenths of the total length ; caudal 

 rounded, with the middle rays produced. Head with green lines ; 

 two series of brown dots above, and a band formed by reticulated 

 green lines below, the lateral line. A bluish-black spot behind the 

 eye, and another black one on the side, on the sixth series of scales. 

 Dorsal with a black margin ; margins of the anal and caudal black- 

 ish with lighter dots. ( VaJ.) 



Sandwich Islands. 



13. Cheilinus mentalis. 

 Riipp. Atl. Fisclie, p. 24. 



The height of the body is much less than one-third of the total 

 length, or than the length of the head ; lower jaw prominent ; caudal 

 truncated. Reddish, with a reddish-brown spot at the base of each 

 scale ; a large blackish spot behind the upper end of the gill-opening ; 

 fins reddish, with irregular brown spots along the rays. (Riipp.) 



Massaua. 



14. Cheilinus radiatus. 



Vaknt. fig. 176. 



Sparus radiatus, £1. Schn. p. 270. tab. 56. 



Labrua diagramma, Loccp. iii. pp. 448, 517. 



Cheilinus commersonii, Benn. Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. p. 167. 



coccineus, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 23. 



diagramma, Cuv. &; Val. xiv. p. 98 ; Sleek. Verhand. Batav. Ge- 



nootsch. xxii. Lahr. p. 38. 

 radiatus, Bleek. Atl. Ichih. p. 68. tab. 26. fig. 1. 



D. ^. A. f . L. lat. 23. 



The height of the body is less than the length of the head, and 

 is contained thrice and thi'ee-fourths in the total. Snout somewhat 

 produced and pointed, compressed. Anterior canine teeth strong. 

 Caudal fin subtruncated ; ventral rounded. Body uniform reddish 

 or greenish ; snout with whitish lines ; the lower part of the gill- 

 apparatus and of the cheek with oblique brown lines ; the spinous 

 dorsal clouded with brownish, the soft violet at the base; caudal 

 green, with the upper and lower margins brownish. 



From the eastern coasts of Africa to the Western Pacific. 



a. Fine specimen. Moluccas. 



h. Half-grown. Moluccas. From the Leyden Museum a,s Ch. la- 



crymans. 

 c, d. Half-grown. Araboyna. 

 e-f. Adult: stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago- Voyage of H.M.S. 



Rattlesnake. 

 g. Adult : stuffed. Capo Flattery (N.E. Australia). From Mr. 



Macgillivraj^'s Collection. 



