"FAMILY, XLI— JiABElD^. 405 



JuUs trildbatm. Cut. and Val. xiii, p. 437 ; Giintlier, Catal. iv, p. 187. 



JuUs Souleyetn, Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 457; Byd and Soul. Voy. Bonite, Zool. i, p. 190, Poiss. t. vi, f. 2; 

 Bleeker, Kokos, iii, p. 176. 



JvMs formosus, cemgmosus, cyamogaster, and erythrogaster, Cuv. and Val. xiii, pp. 439, 441, 444, 447. 



? JuUs abhortam, Cut. and Val. xiii, p. 450 ; Giintlier, Catal. iv, p. 185. 



Scarus (?) qwmqu&viUatus, Eicliardson, Voy. Blossom, Zool. p. 66, pi. 19, f. 3. 



JuUs guenfh&ri, Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Wet. Amst. xiii, p. 279, and Atl. Icli. i, p. 94, t. 34, t. 1; Giintlier, 

 Catal. iv, p. 189, and in BrencUey's Cruise of Curagoa, p. 426, pi. 32, f. A. 



Lma-gvranuah. " Squirrel-parrot," Cingalese. 



B. Ti, D. tV> P- 16, V. 1/5, A. J^, 0. 14, L. 1. 27-28, L. tr. 3-31/10. 



Length of head 3f , of caudal 7, height of body 3|- to 4j in the total length. Byes — diameter 5 to 6^ in 

 the length of head, 1| to 2| diameters from the end of snout, and If to 2 apart. Teeth — ^no posterior canine. 

 Fms — caudal lohes produced in the adult. Colours — green or blue, with or without irregular pinkish or red 

 bands radiating from the eye : a red or pink band which often gives off short ones superiorly, passes from 

 the opercle to the caudal fin : a second of a brownish- violet colour goes along the back to the upper margin of 

 the caudal fin : and a third along the abdomen to the lower margin of the caudal ; whilst sometimes there is a 

 fourth from the chest to the end of the base of the anal : the rays of the candal fin are green and the membrane 

 red and violet. Dorsal fin green or yellow with a broad pink blue-edged band along its middle, and sometimes 

 having a black spot anteriorly: anal green, with a dark basal band; the posterior half of the pectoral 

 blackish. In the variety umbrostygma the colours are greenish, becoming of a dull white along the lower third 

 of the body. Head with black lines and scattered spots. Two reddish lines along the side of the body which 

 send up vertical processes joining each other. Occiput and body with small vertical brown spots, either in the 

 form of bands or else scattered. Dorsal fin with a black spot between its first and third spines, a sea-green 

 basal band, another in its upper third and the two separated by round reddish spots : anal similarly marked. 

 Caudal with green streaks between the rays. Outer third of the pectoral stained gray. The dorsal and anal 

 fins are occasionally differently coloured, they may have a single green band along their centres : or a red band 

 having yellow marks above and below, with a brown blue-edged intramargiaal band. 



Habitai — Red Sea, Bast coast of Africa, seas of India to the Malay Archipelago, Chiaa, and beyond. 

 The specimen figured is 10 inches in length and from the Andamans, the whole of its back above the upper 

 light tiand is ccemlean blue. Amongst Sir W. Blliot's drawings is one of this fish, captured at Waltair, and 

 termed " OMlatrascmi, Tel." 



6. Julis Jansenii, Plate LXXXVI, fig. 4. 



Bleeker, Manado, p. 56, and Atl. Ich. i, p. 91, t. 34, f. 5 ; Giinther, Catal. iv, p. 187. 



B. vi, D. -J^, P. 15, V. 1/5, A. ^\, C. 14, L. 1, 28, L. tr. 2/9. 



Length of head 4 to 4J, of caudal 5i, height of body 4 i to 4f in the total length. %es— diameter 6 in 

 length of head, 2i diameters from end of snout, and IJ apart. J'ms— caudal rounded in the young, lobes 

 produced in the adult. Oolowrs — yellow, with from three to five wide black vertical bands goiag from the back 

 down the sides. In the specimen figured (from the Andamans) the black colour almosthides the yellow ground 

 colour, and both are continued upwards on to the dorsal fin. A violet streak from behind the opercle on to the 

 base of the pectoral fin. Pectoral, ventral, and anal yellowish, the last with a. black spot at the outer end of 

 its last two rays. 



In the figure in Bleeker's Atlas, there are only three black cross bands on the body, the anterior going 

 over the head and nape to the base of the pectoral : the second from the fourth to sixth dorsal spmes to half 

 way down the sides : the third froto the summit of all the dorsal rays decreasing in width as it descends to the 

 base of the last few anal rays, where it expands so as to cover the outer edge of all. 



Habitat. — Andamans to the Malay Archipelago and beyond. 



Genus, 12 — GoMPflOsns, Laeepede. 

 Brwmhiostegals six. Body oblong, compressed. Snout produced, tubiform : th& opening of the mouth not 

 lending nea/rly so far haclma/rds as the eyes : preopercle entire. Gill membrames attached to theysthmus. Anterior 

 teeth conical : no posterior canine : inferior pharyngeal teeth not confluent or pa/vement-lihe. A smgle dorsal fln with 

 less spines (8 or 9) thorn rays (13). Anal with two or three spines amd less rays (11) thoM the soft dorsal,, bcales rather 

 laa-ge, none on the head : no enlarged row at base of caudal fin, but the base of the dorsal and anal scaly.. Lateral- 

 line eowtirmous. 



-Geographical ddstribwtion.—Bed Sea, East coast of Africa, seas of India to the Malay Archipelago and 

 beyond. 



SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. 



1. Gomphosus cxruleus, D. ^, A. Vf , L- 1- 29. Violet with the vertical fins yellow : or Tivid green. 

 Seas of India to the Malay Archipelago. -, ■, ^ j i -j.!, 



2. Gomphosus pectoraUs, D. ^, A. ^, L. 1. 26. Brownish, each scale with a dark base : caudal with a 

 white posterior edge. Seas of India to the Malay Archipelago. 



