PSEUDOSCARUS. 
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The formula of the anal fin is and in some specimens the posterior half of the fish 
is of a lighter colour than the anterior. 
Zanzibar. Batavia. 
364. Pseudoscarus pentazona. 
Pseudoscarus pentazona, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 46, t. 11. f . 1 ; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 231. 
[550.] 
D. -. 
9 * 
A. 
9 - 
Colour in life.— Pale grey, with about five rather indistinct darker cross bands, each 
scale with a reddish vertical line at the base. Lips blue ; a separate blue line parallel 
to each ; between these the colour is rosy ; the upper line is continued to the middle of 
the anterior part of orbit. A blue line along the lower edge of the fish from symphysis 
of jaws to vent. Dorsal and anal brownish, clouded with purple in the centre, and with 
purple marginal lines ; caudal purplish brown, with darker margins to each lobe. 
Zanzibar. Celebes. 
365. Pseudoscarus erythrodon. [548.] 
Scams erythrodon, Cuv. fy Val. xiv. p. 255. 
Pseudoscarus sumbawensis, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 47, t. 15. f. 4; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 232. 
Colour in life. — Blackish brown, each scale with a dark brown margin ; tail lighter 
than body, a violet tint on thoracic region ; snout yellowish brown ; dorsal and anal 
brownish, with a narrow black marginal line ; ventrals brown ; pectorals transparent 
brown. 
Zanzibar. \ Mauritius. East-Indian archipelago. 
366. Pseudoscarus nuchipunctatus. [213, 541.] 
Scarus nuchipunctatus, Cuv. Val. xiv. p. 224. 
limbatus, Cuv. <Sf Val. xiv. p. 271. 
Pseudoscarus nuchipunctatus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 31, t. 10. f. 2; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 233. 
D. 
io- 
A 
A. 9 • 
Spec, a [213]. Colour in life. — Head and belly deep bright red; the remainder 
reddish brown, with lighter longitudinal stripes, which are of the same breadth as the 
interspaces between them ; these occur in the middle and on the top and bottom of 
each scale. A deep-greenish, almost black stripe passes through the upper part of 
the orbit across the operculum ; another round the upper lip ; a third, more or less in- 
terrupted, passes beneath the orbit, round the lower lip ; and a fourth, parallel to the 
last, lower down. There is a similarly coloured longitudinal line along the junction of 
the branchiostegous membranes, and another on each side along the inferior margin of 
the preeoperculum. Dorsal and anal reddish, with blue or green marginal lines. 
Pectorals and ventrals reddish. Caudal with a narrow posterior blue margin. 
Length 8-§ inches. 
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