FISHES. 42S 



PLATE XXXII. Fio. A. 

 JULIS GUENTEEBI. 



(Julis Guentheri, Blecl-er, Vcrsl. Ale. Wit. Amskrd. vol. xiii. p. 279.) 



D. -3^. A. -\. L. lat. 27-28. 



The height of the body is equal to the length of the head, and 

 two-sevenths of the total (without caudal) ; no posterior canine 

 tooth ; two canine teeth of the low&r jaw are received between 

 those of the upper ; dorsal spines pungent, shorter than the rays; 

 caudal lobes somewhat produced ; the length of the ventral is 

 three-fifths of that of the pectoral, which is shorter than the head. 

 Upper parts greyish-green, lower of a lighter colour ; a greyish 

 band, one scale broad, commences on the side of the neck, runs 

 along and above the lateral line, and is continued to the end of 

 the upper caudal lobe ; a second band of a lighter colour com- 

 mences above the pectoral, and runs along the middle of the side 

 of the body to the root of the caudal ; caudal fin yellow, blackish 

 at the base, with a greyish black-edged band along the upper and 

 lower lobes ; head dark-violet, with two curved bluish bands, the 

 lower from the chin towards the lower part of the orbit, to the 

 opercular lobe, the upper across the prseorbital through the upper 

 part of the orbit to the upper end of the gill-opening (the bands 

 are red during life) ; the pectoral with the hinder jiiortion 

 blackish ; dorsal fin with a deep black spot anteriorly, and with a 

 blackish margin ; anal without markings, or with a faint blackish 

 lower edge. 



Solomon Islands. 



Length 5^ inches. This species is known also from Celebes 

 and the Cape of Good Hope. , 



