32. JULis. 189 



19. Julis purpurea. 



Scarus pui-pureus, Forsk. Descr. Anim. p. 27. 

 Labrus pui-pureus, L. Gm. i. p. 1284. 

 Gramnustes purpureas, Bl. Schn. p. 190. 



Julis purpureus, Riqip. Atl. Fische, p. 25. taf. 6. fig. 2; Cuv. Sf Val. xiii. 

 p. 445. 



D. 1. A. K 



13 U 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is scarcely 

 more than one-fourth of the total. Caudal subtruncated, with the 

 lobes slightly produced. Green : on each side of the head five red 

 bands, one of which passes through the eye and over the base of the 

 pectoral, and is continued into its fellow from the other side ; along 

 each side of the body three red bands, one of which is broad and 

 runs from the operculum across the bend of the lateral line to the 

 caudal, emitting numerous vertical streaks upwards into the green 

 ground-colour ; fins greenish, dorsal and anal with a red longitudinal 

 band. 



Red Sea. Bombay. 



This fish is probably another variety of J. trilobata, in which case 

 the name given by Forskal would have the priority. 



20. Julis guntheri. 



Julis quadricolor, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. i. Manad. p. 55 (not 



Nat. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. xix. p. 339). 

 giintheri, Bleek. Vcrsl. Akad. Wet. Amst. xiii. p. 279, and Atl. 



Ichth. p. 94. tab. 34. fig. 1. 



D. ^. A. -i. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 3^/9. 



The height of the body is equal to the length of the head, and one- 

 fourth of the total. Caudal fin truncated, with the lobes sUghtly 

 produced. Greenish-olive (in spirits), with a light-coloured, weU- 

 defined band running from the opercular lobe to the middle of the 

 caudal ; a similar second band from the side of the nape to and along 

 the upper caudal lobe. Head with two lateral bands : one from the 

 maxillary through the eye to the opercular lobe ; the other curved, 

 below the eye ; another across the occiput, and sometimes two cross- 

 bands between the eyes. An oblique band on the thorax, below the 

 pectoral. Dorsal fi^n with a black spot anteriorly, and with a broad 

 band which runs along the middle of the dorsal fin, leaving the 

 margin and the base of the fin of a darker colour. Anal fin uniform 

 transparent. The lower caudal lobe with a longitudinal band similar 

 to that of the upper ; the posterior half of the pectoral blackish ; a 

 blackish spot superiorly in the axil. 



Cape of Good Hope. Celebes, Sangi. 



a-c. Four to five inches long. Cape of Good Hope. 



d. Four and a half inches long. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



On account of the great similarity of this species to J. trilobata, 

 I have hesitated for a long time to separate it from the latter. As, 



