202 LABKID.K. 



oporciilura i-ed ; extremity of the operculum blue. Vertical tins with 

 green margins. Dried specimens nearly uniform black. 

 Red Sea. Mauritius. Australia. 



a. Nineteen inches long : stuffed. Red Sea. Presentedby J. Burton, 



Esq. 



b. Adult: stuffed. Red Sea. From Dr. E. Riippell's Collection. 



c. Twenty-three inches long : stuffed. India. From the Collection 



of the Zoological Society. 



d. Adult : stuffed. Australia. From Mr. Gould's Collection. 



13. Coris annulata. 



ValeM. fig. 808. 



Labrus annulatus, Lacep. iii. pp. 455, 526. pi. 28. fig. .'3. 



semidiscus, Lacep. iii. pp. 429, 472. pi. 6. fig. 2. 



doliatus, Lacep. iii. p. 429. pi. 6. fig. 3. 



Hologymnosus fasciatiis, Lacep. iii. p. 557. pi. 1. fig. 3 ; Blcek. Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1801, p. 410, and Atl. Ichth. p. 90. tab. 20. 

 Julis rosea, Quoij ^- Gaim. Voy. Adrol. iii. p. 709, Poiss. pi. 15. fig. 1. 



doliatus. Cur. Sf Val. xiii. p. 504. 



annulatus, Cuv. ^ Val. xiii. p. 501. pi. 388 ; Bleek. Celeb, viii. p. 31 1. 



D.^. A.^. L.lat. 120. 



The height of the body is one-fifth of the total length, the length 

 of the head two-sevenths; the length of tlie pectoral is equal to, or 

 rather less than, one-half of that of the head. Posterior canine tooth 

 none. Upper lip broad, folded ; the lower broad, pendent, not con- 

 tinuous with that of the other side. Anterior dorsal spines not pro- 

 duced ; caudal with two slight notches ; ventral jyolvted, notpi-olonged, 

 much shorter than the pectoral. The upper part of the extremity of 

 the suboperculum ivith an oblong black spot. Body with vertical 

 bands ; head with rather irregular green bands. 



Indian Ocean. 



Var. u. Body with numerous darker vertical stripes, without distinct 

 white cross-band. The basal half of the dorsal fiin with large round 

 whitish spots, each surrounded by a violet crescent posteriori ; the 

 upper half with two or three longitudinal lines. Anal nearly uniform, 

 with a fine intramarginal line. 



((, b-c. Adult. Mauritius. From the Collection of the Zoological 

 Society. 



d. Adult : not good state. Seychelles. From the Haslar Collection. 



Var. /3. Body with numerous blue, brown-edged vertical stripes ; 

 a broad white cross-band, descending from between the third and 

 eighth dorsal spines ; a black band before the w^hite one. Dorsal 

 fin violet, with a series of low, semicircular white spots along the 

 base; margin reddish-white, witli a violet longitudinal line; anal 

 with a sejies of light-violet rings along the base, with a broad light- 

 violet band along iho middle, and with the margin dark-violet. 



e. Adult. Mauritius. l''rom the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



Var. y. Rose-coloured, with the vertical stripes very indistinct. 

 Mauritius. 



