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LABKIM. 
Colour in spirits . — Uniform light yellowish olive ; one specimen with an elongate 
ovate blackish spot before and below the bend of the lateral line ; this spot is absent in 
another specimen, and represented in a third by a minute dot only ; the two last- 
mentioned specimens have a broad pearl-coloured band along each side of the belly, 
commencing at the base of the pectorals. 
Colour in life. — Green, a violet line from middle of snout (where it meets the 
corresponding one on the other side) skirting the upper margin of the orbit, nearly as 
far as the end of the operculum. A similar line on the cheeks below the orbit, from 
the angle of the mouth nearly to the prseopercular margin. A large violet ring on the 
upper part of the operculum. Blotch on the sides as before described. Dorsal and 
anal orange, with a greenish tint and a narrow violet margin. — Length 3^ inches. 
Zanzibar. 
NOVACULA, Cm. & Val .* 
332. Novacula taeniurus. [214, 256, 560.] 
Labrus taeniurus, Lacep. iii. pp. 448, 518, pi. 29. f. 1. 
Xyrichthys taeniurus, Cuv. § Val. xiv. p. 54, pi. 393 (not Bleek.). 
Novacula taeniurus, Gunth. Fish. iv. p. 172. 
Var. a [214]. Colour in life. — Brown, each scale with an olive-green centre; belly- 
scales red, with white margins; head immaculate. Dorsal greenish, with oblique 
brown stripes and spots ; anal brownish green, with oblong brown stripes and spots 
along the rays, and round ones between them ; two deep-blue-black spots between the 
first and second and second and third dorsal spines, each with a yellow margin 
anteriorly. A broad yellow band across the base of the caudal. An orange spot on 
axil of pectoral, and a black crescent behind that fin, which is black below and yellow 
above. — Length 12 inches. 
Var. b [256, 560]. Similar in general coloration to var. a , but without any markings 
on the dorsal and anal fins except the two anterior spots. The band across the 
base of the caudal is darker than in var. a , and the belly-scales are not red. — Length 
13 inches. 
Zanzibar. Mauritius. 
333. Novacula macrolepidota. [302, 688.] 
Labrus macrolepidotus, Bl. t. 284. 
Julis trimaculatus, Cuv. Val. xiii. p. 386. 
Xyrichthys macrolepidotus, Cuv. Val. xiv. p. 59; Peters, Wiegm. Arch. 1855, p. 264. 
Novaculichtliys macrolepidotus, Bleek. Atl. Iclith. i. p. 144, t. 31, f. 6. 
Novacula macrolepidota, Gunth. Fish. iv. p. 174. 
* Undetermined specimen [578]. 
