35. couis. 203 



1 4. Coris cingulum. 



Labms ciug-uluni, Lacep. iii. p. 517. pi. 28. fig. 1. 



Jiilis scmipunctatus, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 12. taf. 3. tig. o. 



Labrus aureo-iuaculalus, Bern. Fish. Cci/L pi. 20. 



Julia cingulum, Cm: Si- Val. xiii. p. 428. 



D. :^. A. ■^. L. lat. ()0. L. transv. G/28. 



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

 fourth of the total. Posterior canine tooth none. Caudal rounded. 

 The first ventral ray produced. Head and anterior part of the body 

 brownish-olive, tail brown, both colours being separated by a pale 

 (•ross-band which is situated at the end of the pectoral. Head with 

 scattered small blue (brown) spots; a black spot on the extremity 

 of the operculum, another superiorly at the axil. 



Var. a. Back of the tail uniform dark-brown ; vertical fins black- 

 ish-violet, ■\\'ith series of black spots and with white margins. 



New Hebrides. 

 a. Adult : stuffed. Aneiteum. From Mr. Macgillivray's Collection. 



Var. ft. Tail light-brownish -olive, with two large brown blotches 

 on the back ; basal half of the vertical fins light-brownish-olive, 

 with brown dots, and separated by a brown band from ihe broad 

 margin, which is yellowish. 



lied Sea. Mauritius. 



Var. y. Like var. /3, but the blotches on the back of the tail are red. 

 Ceylon. 



15. Coris semipartita. 



D. ^. A. ■^. L. lat. 128. 



The height of the body is contained four times and a half in the 

 total length, the length of the head three times and three-fourths ; 

 the lemjth of -the pa-torul is more than one-half of that of the head. 

 Posterior canine tooth none ; eye small, one-tenth of the length of 

 the head. Dorsal spines flexible not produced, the ninth being the 

 longest, one-third of the length of the head. Caudal tin crescent- 

 shaped, the middle of the crescent being rather convex ; ventral 

 pointed, slif/htJi/ j^roJoixjed, its le.nrjth beinr/ two-thirds of that of the 

 pectoral. I)ark-greenish-olive in spirits, with numerous indistinct 

 narrow vertical stripes, and with a Uyht-<jr.een vertical hand on the 

 middle of the distance of the snout from the base of th^ caudal, below 

 the tAVO first soft dorsal rays. Head with a dark band from the 

 orbit to the snout, with another from the orbit to the scapula, and 

 •with a third, short, horizontal, from below the lower margin of the 

 orbit ; a fourth from i.ic orbit towards the occiput ; operculum with 

 a dark irregular blotch ; subopercular fiap with a black superioi 

 nuu'gin. Vertical fius dark violet: dorsal and anal with the margin 

 yellow and with a bluish-black line within the margin ; the soft 

 dorsal and anal besides with a greenish (?) band along their outer 

 half. The inner half of the caudal fin is yellow, this coloui forming 



