176 LABRID^. 



between the bands have an irregular brown spot ; a narrow band 

 from below the eye to behind the maxillary. The anterior dorsal 

 and the ventral black ; the soft dorsal with two deep-black ocelli 

 within the third and fourth bands ; a brown band across the base of 

 the pectoral. 

 Ball 



a. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



18. Novacnla aneitensis. 

 D.2|4 A.^. L.lat.30. 



A few scales below the orbit ; the two first dorsal spines are flex- 

 ible, shghtly produced, remote from, but subcontinuous with, the 

 remainder of the fin, the membrane between the second and third 

 spines being notched. The outer ventral ray is produced. Red (in 

 a dried state), with a large roundish white blotch on the middle of 

 the trunk, below the lateral line ; a dark shining blotch on the hu- 

 meral region'; another on the side of the back, below the sixth and 

 seventh dorsal spines, extending on the fin and below the lateral 

 line ; a deep-black spot between the third dorsal ray and the lateral 

 line. The soft dorsal and anal fins with oblique dark bands. 



New Hebrides. 



a-b. Ten inches long : stuffed. Aneiteura. From Mr. Macgillivray's 

 Collection. 



19. Novacnla mundicorpus. 



Iniistius mundicorpus, GillinProc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1862, p. 145. 



D.2|^. A.^. L.lat.25. 



Yellowish or brownish, immaculate ; the dorsal fin with several 

 oblique bars between its rays. (Oill.) 

 Cape St. Lucas (California). 



b. Upper edge of the head rather obtuse. 

 20. Novacnla kallosoma. 



Novacula kallosoma, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. vi. Amboina, xi. 



p. 5. 

 Novaculichthys kallosoma, Bleek. Synon. Labr. p. 20. 



^'^Ih- ^-T,- L-lat.27. 

 The upper profile of the head obtuse. A few scales below the 

 orbit ; the two first dorsal spines are flexible, much prolonged, re- 

 mote from, but continuous with, the remainder of the fin ; the outer 

 ventral ray is produced. Red : head and body with white spots 

 edged with brown ; the spots on the head are band-like, those on 

 the body quadrangular and disposed in four longitudinal and four 

 transverse series ; the two anterior spots of the lower series are 



