Slorer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 139 



at the suboperculum, and passes beneatli the pectoral. A violet band passes from the eye 

 over the occiput, and unites with that of the opposite side, forming an angle upon the top of 

 the head. From the top of this angle, a wide, short bone descends vertically, which anas- 

 tomoses with another horizontal line, passing from the eye to the angle of the opercle. A 

 transverse bridle passes beneath the lower jaw, and is prolonged in a lighter band, which di- 

 vides the preopercle and extends to the opercle. Scales large ; twenty-four in a longitudinal 

 line between branchiae and tail. 



D. 9-11. P. (?)• V. (.'). A. 3-12. C. (?)• Length, C inches. 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



• 'ailed "Patate," at Martinique. 



La GireUe perruche (Julis psittaculus, Cuv., Labrus psittacu - et Val., xm. p. 387. 



2. .Tulis Garnoii, Cuv. 



Body blue or greenish, bright red along the back ; the spinous portion of the dorsal black- 

 ish blue; the soft portion gray, with red spots ; the anal of a tint approaching to the 1' 

 wine, with deep blue spots between each ray, near the body; caudal rounded and grayish, 

 rayed transversely with ten alternately narrow and wide rays ; pectorals bluish ; ventrals 

 greenish. 



D. 9-11. P. (?). V. (?). A. 3-11. C. ( : ). Length, 6 inches. 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



La Girdle ile Garnot, Julia Garnoii, Cuv. el Val., xin. p. 390. 



3. Julis cyanostigma, Cuv. 

 Head clouded with blue or violet and red. Seven or eight longitudinal rows of azure s 

 upon the sides ; three large black spots at the base of the dorsal ; one upon the first simple 

 rays ; one at the termination of the fin ; the central one includes the first four soft rays. A 

 violet ray along the middle of the base of the anal. The caudal and the dorsal have 

 traces of violet spots. 

 D. (?). P. (?). V. (?). A. (?). C. (?). Length, 6 inches. 

 Caribbean Sea, Ci:v. 



La Girelle aux laches bleuei, Ju!i:.- cyanostigma, i'i v el Val., xm. p. 391. 



4. Julis opalina, Cuv. 



The color of this species is a mixture of blue, green, yellow, orange, and red, which gives 

 it an opaline or iridescent tint. The blue is disposed in lour well marked lines upon the 

 belly. Head blue or llesh-color, with deeper blue rays. Dorsal blue. Anal with two 

 violet-colored rays upon a deeper ground ; caudal blue, with violet bands, which are vertical 

 or longitudinal. 



