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? JULIS MELANOPTBRA, Gflir. [No. 15401]. 



JitZjs mfi?an(y)<era, GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., iv, 1862, 183. - 



D. iV A. ^j. L. lat. 27. L. trans. 2^. 

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The height of the body is slightly more than the length of the head, 

 and one fourth of the total length (the caudal lobes not included). The 

 diameter of the eye is two-ninths of the length of the head, and one and 

 a half times in the length of the snout. No posterior njanine teeth ; two 

 anterior canine teeth of the lower jaw are received between, the two of 

 the upper. Dorsal spines pungent, shorter than the rays ; caudal lobes; 

 produced j ventrals pointed, not prolonged, and are five-sevenths of the 

 length of the pectorals ; the latter shorter than the head — seven-ninths 

 of its length. A few scales on the snpraopercular region. . Colors in 

 alcohol: — head uniform dark purplish, without any marking; body 

 brownish-olive ; dorsal and anal fins dark violet, the former with a black 

 spot anteriorly between the first and fourth spines ; pectoral with an 

 oblique oblong black spot, and a black spot above on the base of the fin. 



Locality: Honolulu, Oahu. 



The only point about this description which renders the identification 

 anyways doubtful is the absence of the " broad, lighter, transverse 

 band below the second to the sixth dorsal spines, extending to the 

 belly 5" the colors are somewhat faded, which, probably, accounts for its 

 absence. There is no habitat assigned to the species by Giinther, but he 

 gives Ceylon as a probable locality. 



POMAGENTRII)^. 



GLYPHIDODON SAXATILIS, {Linn.) Gtlir. [No. 15393]. 



Chcetodon saxatilis, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 466. — Foesk., Descr. Anim., 1775, 62. — 



Bloch, Ichth., vi, 1787, 71, pi. 206, f. 2. ■ 



Chcetodon marginatiis, Bloch, op. cit., vi, 17S7, pi. 207.— Lacep., Hist, des Poiss., iv, 



180:^,451,463. 

 Chcetodon mauritu, Bloch, op. cit., vi, 1787, pi. 213, f. 1. — Bloch, Syst. Ichth., ed. Schn., 



1801, 234.— LaciSp., op. cit., iv, 1803, 452, 470. 

 Chcetodon sart/oides, IjAC^^p., o-p cit., iv, 1803,453,471,472. 

 Labrus sexfasciatus, Lacep., op. cit., iii, 1803, 477, pi 19, f. 2. 

 Chcetodon tyrivhitti, Benjstett, Fish, of Ceylon, 1834, pi. 25. 

 Glyphisodon saxatilis^ Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., v, 1830, 446.^Ruppell, AtL 



Fische, 1828,-35.; JSf. W..Fische, 1837, 126. ' 



