CORIS. 
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347. Coris caudimacula. [281.] 
Julis caudimacula, Quoy fy Gaim. Voy. Astrol. iii. p. 710, Poiss. pi. 15. f. 2 ; Cuv. <Sf Val. xiii. p. 426- 
Hemicoris caudimacula, Bleek. Atl. Iclith. i. p. 106, t. 36. f. 2. 
Coris caudimacula, Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 205. 
Colour in life. — Greenish, with four longitudinal lines, which are blue on snout, red on 
head and shoulders, and orange towards tail ; all with blue edges. There is another 
from the chin to the root of the ventrals, and one from the angle of the operculum, 
descending obliquely behind the pectorals to the anal. A blue spot on the angle of the 
operculum, and a black blotch on the root of the caudal. Dorsal orange, with a 
series of green blue-edged spots along the base, and two or three series of light-blue 
spots above. Anal orange, with reddish base enclosing orange spots ; four rows of blue 
spots, and stripes beyond. Caudal with a blue semicircular band from the middle of 
one lobe to that of the other, cutting off, as it were, the tips of each lobe ; within this 
there is a broad orange band of similar shape, enclosing bluish spots. 
Zanzibar. Mozambique. Mauritius. 
3-18. Coris frerei, sp. n. Plate XIII. [624.] 
D. ij. A. A. L. lat. 86. 
A posterior canine tooth. The height of the body is contained three times and a 
half, and the length of the head to the extremity of the opercular lobe four times in 
the total length without caudal. The two anterior dorsal spines produced, the first 
being as long as the head ; the third and fourth are shortest ; thence they increase in 
length posteriorly. The middle dorsal rays are the longest, and half as long as the 
head. Caudal truncate. Ventrals narrow, long, hut rather shorter than the head. 
Colour of head and neck fawn, of body bluish violet ; each scale with a round blue 
or green spot. There are about nine dark -blue cross bands, the first crossing the body 
above the vent, and each being about as broad as the interspace which separates it from 
its fellow. Along the median line of the forehead there is a green band, which becomes 
sinuous in front of the eye, and throws out branches to each side ; there is another from 
the second dorsal spine to the upper margin of the orbit ; thence it runs at an angle to 
the middle of the maxillary, and again takes a curve to the angle of the mouth ; a third, 
of horseshoe-shape, commences on the root of the ventral, runs forward to and along the 
lower margin of the interoperculum, thence forward to the joint of the mandible, ascends 
in a curve to the lower margin of the orbit, runs backwards across the suprascapular 
region, and is gradually lost on the anterior portion of the lateral line ; a fourth skirts 
the opercular and subopercular margins. These bands are brilliant green, with purple 
edges, becoming red in a dried state. There are several similarly coloured round spots 
on the head and opercles. The lower two-thirds of the dorsal is violet, densely covered 
with green and blue spots, sometimes confluent into short lines ; next follows a reddish 
band, and beyond this a reddish-brown margin, with four or five brilliant cobalt lines or 
