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142 EDIBLE FISHES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



A siugle dorsal I'm witli ciglit or nine spines : the anal with three. Scales 

 small, in fifty or more transverse scries : head entirely naked except in 

 C. Uneolata. Lateral line continuous. 



Oeoffrapliical distribution. — Tropical and suhtropical zones of the Indian 

 and Pacific Oceans: Mediterranean and the Atlantic seaboard from the 

 south coast of Eujilaud to Sierra Leone. 



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COEIS LIXEOLATA. 



Julis Uneolata, Cuv. c^- Yal. Hist. Kat. Poiss. xiii. p. 436, 1839. 



Julis cyannqramma, liichards. Ann. Nat. Hist. (2) 1S51, vii. p. 289, and 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 73. 

 Opldhahnolepis lineolata,B\Qe\. Proc. ZooL Soc. 1861, p. 413 ; Kner, Voy. 



Kovara, Pisch. ]). 25S, pi. xi. fig. 1. 

 €ons Uneolata, G-nth. Catal. Pish. iv. p. 206 ; Casteln. Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N.S.Wales, iii. p. 390. 

 JkUs adelaidensis, Casteln. Kes. P'ish. Austr. p. 35, 1875. 



Maori. 

 B. vi. D. 9/13. A. 3/13. A' . 1/5. P. 13. C. 12. L. lat. 52-56. L. tr. 6/20. 



Vert. 10/17. 

 Length of head 4-10-4-25, of caudal fin 4-90-6-00, height of body 

 4-00-4-40 in the total length. Diameter of eye QOi) in the length of the 

 head 2-15 ia that of the pointed snout, and 1-00-1-15 in the slightly convex 

 interorbital space. Nostrils moderately approximate, small, rounded, and 

 simple, directed forwards. Upper profile of head rounded. Jaws equal. Cleft 

 of mouth small and but little oblique, the maxilla reaching to between the 

 nostrils. A pair of strong anterior canines in each jaw, those of the man- 

 dible fitting between the maxillary pair when the mouth is closed ; upper 

 jaw with an outer row of eight or nine strong conical teeth on each 

 ramus, inside of ^Yhich are from one to three series of smaller granular 

 teeth; lower jaw similarly armed, but w^ith nine or ten enlarged conical 

 teeth, and the inner teeth fewer in number; one or two posterior 

 canines on each side. The dorsal fin commences above the middle of 

 the opercle, and its outer margin forms a gentle curve along its entire 

 length ; the spines are slender and flexible, increasing in height to the last, 

 which is one half longer than the first, 275 in the length of the head, and 

 1-33 in the height of the last ray, which is slightly elongated : the anal 

 commences beneath the anterior dorsal ray; its first spine is short, the third 

 and longest equal to the fifth dorsal spine ; the rayed portion is similar to 

 that of the dorsal : ventral fin pointed, reaching to the vent; the two outer 

 rays are elongate, 170 in the length of the head ; the spine is equal in 

 length to the last dorsal spine, and five eighths of the outer ray : upper 

 pectoral rays the longest, 1-50 in the length of the head : caudal rounded, 

 the least height of its pedicle 2*10 in the height of the body. _ A few small 

 scales behind the eye, and on the extreme upper angle of the opercle. 

 Lateral line tubes branched. 



Colors. — G-eneral colors red above, yellowish below, separated by a more or 

 less conspicuous pink longitudinal band, which is generally bordered above 

 and below by purplish bands ; all the lower scales with a violet bar forming 

 together more or less regular vertical streaks; upper and lower surfaces of 

 head olive green, the sides golden, the whole traversed by blue bands which 



