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where the next scale overlaps. Head with red lines radiating from the eye, and several 
red marks on the chin, opercles, and forehead. Dorsal green, with orange margins and 
a similarly coloured line above the top of the scaly sheath, becoming interrupted and 
forming spots towards the end. Anal green, with orange marginal and median lines. 
Caudal green, with a white margin and about four vertical orange bars between the 
lobes. — Length 10 inches. 
There are two other specimens in this collection, 4 and 4-| inches long [582], which 
are brownish, spotted all over with whitish ; fins variegated with lighter and darker 
brown, and a row of red spots along the base of the anal rays. These we consider to be 
the young of C. genistriatus. They are very similar to the nominal species figured by 
Bleeker as C. spinidens. It appears that the small teeth within the front series of the 
upper jaw is a characteristic developed in a varying degree in young specimens, which 
probably disappears entirely with age ; the rounded caudal of immature specimens 
becomes emarginate in adults ; we have therefore little doubt that C. spinidens is founded 
on young specimens of C. genistriatus. 
Zanzibar. East-Indian archipelago. 
PSEUDOSCARUS, Bleek * f 
355. Pseudoscarus harid. [300, 607.] 
Scarus liarid, Forsk. p. 30; Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 80, t. 21. f. 1. 
mastax, Rupp. Atl. Fische, p. 80, t. 21. f. 2, and N. W. Fische, p. 28; Cuv. Veil. xiv. p. 246. 
Pseudoscarus mastax, Bleek. All. Ichth. i. p. 35, t. 10. f. 1. 
liarid, Gunth. Fish. iv. p. 220. 
Zanzibar. Bed Sea. Java. Cocos. 
356. Pseudoscarus j a vanicus. [537,673.] 
Pseudoscarus javanicus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 36, t. 11. f. 3 ; Gunth. Fish. iv. p. 222. 
Colour in life. — Greenish ; each scale with a vertical reddish mark on the base. Lips 
with an orange band between two green ones ; the exterior green band of the upper lip 
takes a bend at the corner of the mouth and proceeds to the eye, skirting the lower 
margin. A green band from symphysis of lower jaw to anal. Dorsal and anal violet, 
with green margins and broad basal bands. Caudal green, with a violet band along the 
middle of each lobe. Pectorals green, with a violet centre. 
Zanzibar. Java. 
* Although in many instances we have given the colours in life of the species of this genus, these must not 
be implicitly relied on as spocific characters. They vary exceedingly with age, sex, and season ; we would 
particularly direct attention to P. troschelii, Bleek., as an instance in point, 
t Undetermined specimens [30, 126, 519]. 
