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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
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 scales with a somewhat lighter edge, the fins much 
darker than the body. 
This species, here described from a large example from Wakanoura, Japan, has been once recorded 
from Hawaii by Mr. Fowler; a record open to doubt, however. 
Fig. 131 . — Coris aygula Lacepede; after Jordan and Snyder. 
Curia aygula LacCpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 96, pi. 4, fig. 1, 1801, lie de France; Gunther, Cat., IV, 1862, 201 (Red Sea; 
India; Australia); Day, Fish. India, 408, 1877, (with a figure representing some species of biology mnosus)-, Fowler, 
Proc. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila. 1900, 510 (Sandwich Islands); Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U; S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, 641, 
fig. 9 (Wakanoura, Japan). 
Coris antjulafa Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 96, pi. IV, fig. 2, 1801, lie de France (dorsal spines not produced). 
Julis gibbifrons Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Poiss., 707, pi. xix, fig. 3, 1830, lie de France. 
Julia curia Cuvier & 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 canines; dorsal spines flexible; tins not produced; dorsal ix, 13; anal iii, 11. Polynesia 
to Africa; apparently 'a single species, varying much in color. 
Cheilio (Commerson) LaedpOde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 432, 1802 (auratus). 
Hemiulis Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fishes, II, 228, 1839 ( vittatus ). 
Eupcmis Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fishes, II, 232, 1839 (fusiformis). 
250. Cheilio inermis ( Forskal ) . “Kup6up6vi.” Plate XXXIII. 
Plead 2.8 in length; depth 4.6; eye 9. 6 in head; snout 2.25; maxillary 3; interorbital 5.6; D. ix, 13; 
A. ir, 12; scales 5-48-10. 
Body very elongate, compressed, deepest at pectoral; upper profile of head concave, then convex 
to occiput; mouth large, upper 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- 
