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Color in life, deep green, the scales edged with brownish; a bluish-green vertical band behind end 
of depressed pectoral; caudal with a wash of blue on posterior parts; dorsal and anal with golden 
brown reticulations. 
Color in alcohol, uniform blue-black, the stales with a somewhat lighter edge, the fins much 
darker than the body. 
This species, here described front a large example from Wakanoura, Japan, has been once recorded 
from Hawaii by Mr. Fowler; a record open to doubt, however. 
Fig. 134 .—Coris uygula LacOpcde; after J ordan and Snyder. 
Curia aygiita LacOp&de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., III. 96, pi. 4. tig. 1, 1301, He de France; Gunther, Cat., IV, 1862, 201 (lied Sea; 
India; Australia); Day, Fish. India, 408, 1877, (with a figure representing some species oi Jloloyyiirnosus ); Fowler, 
I’roe. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pltila. 1900, 510 (Sandwich Islands); Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, 641, 
iig. 9 (Wakanoura, Japan). 
Cnris angulata LacepGde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 96, pi. tv, tig. 2, 1801, He de France (dorsal spines not produced). 
Jails gibbifrons Quoy &. Guimard, Vov. Astrolabe, Poiss., 707, pi. xix, tig. 3. 1830, lie de France. 
Julia coris Cuvier A Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIII, 491,1839, lie de France. 
Genus 159. CHEILIO (Commerson) Lacepede. 
Body elongate, compressed, covered with rather small scales, 45 to 50 in the lateral line; lateral 
line continuous; cheeks scaleless; a few rudimentary scales on the opercle; teeth small, in one series; 
no posterior canities; dorsal spines flexible; fins not produced; dorsal i.\, 13; anal tit, 11. Polynesia 
to Africa; apparently a single species, varying much in color. 
Cheilio (Commerson) Lacepede, Hist. Nat. I'oiss., IV, 432, 1802 ( auratus ). 
Hcmiuti* Swainsip Nat. Hist. Fishes, II, 228,1839 ( vittutus). 
Eitpcmis Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fishes, II, 232, 1839 ( fusiformis ). 
250. Cheilio inermis (Forskal). “A'upoupou.” Plate XXXIII. 
Head 2.8,in length; depth 4.6; eye9.6 in head; snout 2.25; maxillary 3; interorbital 5.6; I). i.\, 13; 
A. ii, 12; scales 5-48-10. 
Body very elongate, compressed, deepest at pectoral; upper profile of head concave, then convex 
to occiput; mouth large, tipper jaw slightly projecting; snout and jaws produced; maxillary reaching 
under posterior nostril; lips thick, fleshy; teeth strong, conic, interorbital width broad, convex; 
nostrils small, close together, posterior a little less than eye diameter from front of eye; margin of 
preopercle undulate; dorsal spines pungent, tips flexible, longest 3.8 in head; longest dorsal ray 3.7; 
longest anal ray 3.7; margin of caudal a little convex, 2 in head; pectoral small, 2.5; ventrals 4.25; 
scales large, thin; lateral line almost straight to base of caudal, tubes very arborescent. 
Color in life (No.03244), olive-green, varying toward rusty red, each scale with a more or less 
distinct curly blue spot, bluish shades predominating below; head with various streaks and reticula- 
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