174 LABRID-H. 



B. Clieek with two or tliroe series of scales ; no anterior division of tlie 



dorsal tin. 



13. Novacula macrolepidota. 



Labrus macrolepidotus, Bl. taf. 284. 



arago, Qiioy 8f Gaim. Voy. TJran. Zool. Poiss. p. 263. pi. G5. fig. 2 



(very bad). 

 Julis ta3uianotus, Qiioy i^ Gaim. I. c. p. 271. 



trimaculata, Cui\ ^- Val. xiii. p. 386. 



Xyriclithys macrolepidotus, Cuv. ^ Val, xiv. p. 59; Peters, Wleqm. 



Arch. 1855, p. 264. 

 arago, Steindachner, VerhancU. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1861, 



p. 136. taf. 4. fig. 1. 

 NovaciUa julioides, Bleek. Banda, i. p. 254. 

 Novaculicnthys macrolepidotus, Bkek. All. Ichth. p. . tab. 31. fig. 6. 



D. ^_£_. A. j-^. L. lat. 25. L. transv. 3/9. Vert. 10/15. 



The upper profile of the head obtuse. Two series of very small 

 scales below the eye ; the two first dorsal si)ines are flexible, not pro- 

 duced, somewhat remote from the third, the membrane between the 

 second and third not being notched ; the outer ventral ray is produced 

 into a long filament. Keddish-rosecoloured: head with three broad 

 brown bands radiating from the posterior part of the orbit, the upper 

 ascending to the neck, the lower descending to the suboperculum; 

 opercular lobe brown ; a more or less interrupted band along the 

 middle of the tail, and an oblong spot above the pectoral. A blackish- 

 violet spot on the thorax, before the root of the ventral ; a deep-black 

 spot between the two first dorsal spines ; outer half of the dorsal and 

 anal with oblique undulated lines. 



Coast of Mozambique, East Indian Archipelago, New Guinea, 

 Waigiou. 



a-h. Adult. Mozambi(iue. From Prof. Pcters's Collection. 



c. Adult : skeleton. Mozambique. From Prof. Petcrs's Collection. 



d. Half-grown. From Dr. P. v. Blocker's Collection as Novkcii/u 



julioides. 



C. Cheek scaly ; no .anterior division of the dorsal fin. 



14 Novacula bimaculata. 



Xyriclithys bimaculata, liiipp. All. Fische, p. 43. taf. 10. fig. 2. 



Cheeks scaly ; the two anterior dorsal spines are flexible, produced, 

 continuous with the remainder of the fin. Red : a black spot on 

 each side ; no spot behind the eye ; dorsal fin mth undulated red 

 streaks ; anal violet, with undulated yellowish lines ; caudal with 

 brownish-red transverse streaks. (Riipp.) 



Massaua. 



XyrichtJn/s virens (Parkins.), Cuv. & Val. xiv. p. 47, from Otahciti, 

 appears to "belong to this division ; the drawing, on which the si)e- 



