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FISHES. 
“ Pinna caudal e flavo lutea, vittis marginalibus croceis. 
“ Iris argenteo virescens. Pupilla nigra.” — Sol. MSS. 
Dr. Solander states that its native name at Taiti is e Piio-parharhoute. 
The Zoological Society lias recently received specimens from the Mauritius. 
JULIS PCECILA. 
Julis virescens , purpurea subfasciatim vario ; genis rubro vittatis ; pinnis dorsali analique rubris, rivulis guttis strigisque 
Jlavo-virescentibus conspersis , Hid insuper maculd purpurascenti-nigrd notatb: pinnd caudali rotundata, subjlavd, rubro fascia- 
tim lineutd. 
PLATE XIX. PIG. 1. 
Hab. prope Loo-Choo. 
A drawing of this very distinct and pretty species, of the natural size, was preserved by Mr. Smyth. 
It inhabits the same locality with the preceding. No mention of it is made in the notes of the expe- 
dition, and our information respecting it is consequently limited to the figure alone. 
SCARUS? QU1NQUE-VITTATUS. 
Scar, viridis ; dorsi utrinque vittis duabus , vittaque pinnae dorsalis , coccineis ; capite coccineo-subradiatim-fasciato : 
pinnae dorsalis radiis spinosis brevioribus. 
PLATE XIX. FIG. 3. 
Hab. apud Loo-Clioo. 
This fish is known to us only by a drawing preserved by Mr. Beechey. Its great resemblance in 
form and markings to the Scarus Georgii, J. W. Bennett, has induced us to place it provisionally in 
the same genus, although in habit it approaches Labrus. Except in the abbreviation of the spinous 
rays of the dorsal fin, a character in which it agrees with the Scar. Georgii, it resembles almost com- 
pletely a fish observed at Taiti by Sir Joseph Banks, the Labrus formosus, Sol. MSS. The vittce, in 
the drawing of the latter, are, however, more pronounced than in ours. 
No mention of this fish occurs in the notes either of Mr. Collie or of Mr. Lay. 
Order MALACOPTERYGII. 
Fam. ESOCID^E. 
Hemirhamphus depauperatus. 
Hem. pinna dorsali anali sub-duplo longiore ; pectorali angulum oris attingente ; maxilld superiore orbitce dimidium 
longitudine superante. 
D. 15. A. 13. 
Hab. in Oceano Pacifico apud Oahu. 
The anterior and posterior portions of this fish (the middle of the body being cut away) were 
preserved by Mr. Lay, and are now deposited in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. 
These remains are, however, sufficient to indicate a new species, distinguished by the small number of 
rays in the dorsal and anal fins ; by their relative proportions, the former being nearly twice the length 
of the latter ; and by their form, which is elevated in front. The first ray of the dorsal is short ; the 
second much longer; the third is the longest of the series ; the fourth, fifth, and sixth, slope suddenly 
downwards ; the seventh and the succeeding rays are about equal in height to the first ; the terminal 
ray is somewhat longer. The anterior rays of the anal fin are the highest, the succeeding ones gra- 
dually sloping backwards. 
The length of the prolonged lower jaw is three inches ; that of the pectoral fin nearly two. 
Fam. MURiENIDiE. ' 
Opiiisurus semicinctus. 
Ophis. maxilla superiore elongate).', pinnis pectoralibus minimis: corpore maculis latis brunneo-nigris 21 fasciatim sub~ 
emeto. 
PLATE XX. FIG. 4 . 
Hab, apud Oahu? 
