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ICHTHYOLOGY 
the body ; the prseoperculum is almost naked, and has only 
one line of scales ; the arbuscules of the lateral line are very 
ramified and cover the scales ; no scales on the base of the 
dorsal and anal ; a posterior canine ; the body is evidently 
more convex than in most species of this genus, and the body 
scales are covered with strong transverse striae. 
The colour is uniformly brown with the fins yellow, and 
there is no appearance of spots on the body. 
My only specimen, which is in a bad state, is eight inches 
long. 
LABRICHTHYS PUNCTULATA. 
Labrichthys Punctulata, Gunth., Gatal., iv., p. 118. 
A posterior canine tooth ; two strong ones in front at each 
jaw, the other teeth strong, pointed, becoming shorter as 
they are situated more backwards ; the head higher than 
long, covered with pores ; a series of very indistinct scales on 
the cheek ; those of the operculum as large as those of the 
body, and having very faint transverse lines ; body covered 
with large scales numbering about twenty-nine on the longi- 
tudinal line ; the lateral line marked by a series of numerous 
but very faint arbuscules which cover almost entirely the scale 
on which they are placed ; the last scales at the base of the 
caudal long and oval. 
The general colour of the specimen is, after preservation in 
spirits, of a very dark brown, entirely covered with small, 
round, white spots, which have probably been blue in the 
living animal ; these spots do not extend to the head nor over 
the fins. 
The specimen is thirteen and a-half inches long. 
PSBUDOJULIS LINEATA. 
I only place this sort in the above genus on account of its 
dorsal having nine spines ; it is otherways a real Julis, and I 
consider this character as of little importance in this family, 
where the spines and rays are so much alike. 
The height of the body is contained a little over four times 
in the total length, and is about equal to the length of the 
