:i-'. coRis. 19,-, 



( "heilio auratus, ( Coiiuner.i.) Lacdp. iv. p. 433 ; Qim/ i^- Gaiin. Voi/. 



Uran. Zool. p. 274. pi. 54. fig-. 2; Cuv. ^- Fa/, xiii.'p. 341 ; Bkek. 



Celebes, i. p. 221. 



fuscus, (Comnicrs.) Lacep. iv. p. 4-3^; Cuv. ^- Val. xiii. p :U9. 



Labnis fusiformis, R'nj)p. X. W. Fischc, p. 7. pi. 1. fi;?. 4. 

 Cheilio cyanochlori.s, Cuv. S,- Val. xiii. p. 340. pi. 3S2. 



forskalii, Cuv. 8f Val. xiii. p. 349. 



hemichrysos, Cuv. S)- Val. xiii. p. 351 ; lUetk. Banda, i. p. 255. 



viridis, Cuv. i^- Val. xiii. p. 352. 



? Cheilio microstoma, Cuv. S)- Val. xiii. p .'.53. 

 Cheilio ramosus, Jciii/u.s, Zool. Bcaglv, Fislics, p. 102. 



bicolor, Bianc. Spec. Zool. MoMimh. p. 254. tab. 5. 



inermis, Bkck. All. Irhth. p. 82. tab. 'M. fif?. 4. 



I^-IFTi- A.^. L.lat. 45-50. 



The height of the body is one-ninth or one-tenth of tlie total 

 length, the length of the head two-sevenths. Generally a broAvii 

 streak or a series of brown spots along the lateral line. 



From the eastern coasts of Africa to the Western Pacific. 



a. Adult. Mozambique. From the Berlin Museum. 

 h. Adult. Macassar. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



c. Half-grown. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



d. Fine specimen. Philippine I.slands. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 



e. Adult: stuffed. Aneitcum. From ilr. Macgillivrav's Collection. 



85. CORIS*. 



Coris, IIologymnosu.s, Labrus, sp., l^arnp. 

 Haliclioeres, sp., Riippell. 

 Julis, sp., Cur. Sf- Val. 



Coris, Uunth. Aun. S;- Ma(). X<it. Hist. 18(51, viii. p. 387. 

 Holog^nlnosus, Pseudocoris, Coris, Ilemicoris, et Oplitlialniolepis, 

 Bleek. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1801, pp. 410-413. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with small scales (L. lat. 50 or 

 more) ; head entirely nakedf ; lateral line not interrupted. Dorsal 

 spines nine. 



Mediterranean and the neighbouring ])arts of the Atlantic. Indian 

 and Australian Seas. Polynesia. 



1. Coris julis. 



.lulis, Rondel, vi. cap. 7. p. 180 ; Salvian. p. 219 ; Oesner, Aquat. iv. 



p. 464 ; Ahlrov. i. c. 7. p. 39; Jonston, i. tit. 2. cap. 1. art. 5. tab. 14. 



fig. 3; Willughby, p. 324. pi. 10. fig. 1 ; Ru;/, >iyn. p. liS. 

 Labrus, no. 7, Artecli, Geii. p. 34, and no. 1. St/non. p. 53. 



» 1. Labrus ornatus, Car7nich. Linn. Traus. xii. 1818, pi. 27. — Julis ornatus, 



Cuv. &( J''ai. xiii. p. 487, appears to me to belong rather to the Trachi- 



nid(P, pn-liaps to the group I'ingvipediua. than to the present family.— 



Tri.stan d'Acunha. 



'1. Eimard, fol. 9. no. fi2. — Julis orythroiiterus, Cuv. ^- Val. xiii. )>. 464. — 



East Indies 

 Except in C. liueohi/a. 



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