84 



formly colored. The tip of the pectoral fin black j a black spot on the 

 upper part of the base. 



In one specimen short vertical streaks pass from one longitudinal 

 band to the other on the sides. 



Lengths, 5.50, 5.00, 4.50 inches. 

 j Locality : Fanning Islands. 



JULIS MELANOCHIR, Bleelcer. [No. 19225]. 



Julis melanocliir, Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl., ii, 1857, Amboina viii, p. 77; 

 Atl. Ichth. i, 1862, Labr., 89, pi. 33, pi. 2.— Gunther, Cat. Fish., iv, 1862, 182. 



Head violet, with two narrow blue black-edged lines on the sides; one 

 extending from the posterior border of the eye to the point of the oper- 

 culum ; the other from the angle of the mouth to the junction of the 

 sub- and inter-operculum. Body green. Dorsal fin with a light edge 

 and a dark intramarginal line ; anal with a light margin. A rounded, 

 transverse black spot across the posterior border of the pectoral fin; a 

 black spot in the axil above. 



Locality: Fanning Islands. 



JULIS LUXARIS, (£.) Cuv. & Vol. [No. 19226]. 



Labrus lunaris, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 474. 



Scarus gallus, Forbk., Deecr. Anim., 1775, 26. 



Labrus viridis, Bloch, Ausland. Fische, v, 1786, 129, pi. 2S2. 



Julis porpliyrooephala, Bennett, Froc. Comm. Zool. Soc, ii, 183. 



Julis duperrei, QuoY & Gaim., Voy. Uran. Zool., 1824, 268, pi. 56, f. 2. 



Julis lunaris, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., xiii, 1839, p. 409. — Bleeker, Verb. Bat. 

 Ge?!., xxii, 1849, ia6?-., 28; Atl. Icbth., i, 1862, ia&r., 90, pi. 33, f. 5.— Gun- 

 ther, Cat. Fish., iv, 1862, 180 ; Fish. Zauz., 1866, 97. — Kner, Fische No- 

 vara Exped., 1869, 256.— Klunzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Gea., xxi, 1871, Fische 

 d. Roth. Meer, 535. 



Julis viridis, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., 420. 



Julis meniscus, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., 415. 



Julis martensii, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., 421. 



Julis trimaculatus, Euppell, N. W. Fische, 1837, 13. 



Julis celehicus, Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., is, 1855, Celebes, viii, 313. 



Julis lutescens (Solander), Bennett, Zool. Beechey's Voy. Fishes, 1839, 65, x>i- 19, f. 2. 



Caudal lobes much produced; the second ray of the ventral fin pro- 

 longed. 



Head violet, with two or three streaks from the hinder margin of the 

 eye, deflexed obliquely across the operculum ; a curved band on the 

 side of the head below the eye. Body green, with a vertical streak at 

 the base of each scale. Dorsal and anal fins with dark base and light 

 margin. A longitudinal oblong black spot on the upper part of the pec- 

 toral fin. 



Locality : Fanning Islands. 



