. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). p. H. GREENWOOD the colour changes to greenish-violet. The belly and chest are white, the branchio- stegal membrane Hght grey. The lips are turquoise, and there are strong tinges of turquoise on the basically grey snout and d%o Fig. 34. Lower pharyngeal bone, occlusal view. Scale = i-omm. The dorsal fin is light sooty-grey, with the base greenish-blue, and the lappets red (as is the margin of the soft part) ; the soft part also has a scattering of weU-marked, elongate, deep red streaks and spots. The anal fin is also soo
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). p. H. GREENWOOD the colour changes to greenish-violet. The belly and chest are white, the branchio- stegal membrane Hght grey. The lips are turquoise, and there are strong tinges of turquoise on the basically grey snout and d%o Fig. 34. Lower pharyngeal bone, occlusal view. Scale = i-omm. The dorsal fin is light sooty-grey, with the base greenish-blue, and the lappets red (as is the margin of the soft part) ; the soft part also has a scattering of weU-marked, elongate, deep red streaks and spots. The anal fin is also sooty-grey (sometimes flushed with pink or red, perhaps a correlate of sexual activity) with a hght-blue area along its base and a narrow scarlet outline to its margins ; there are as many as eight bright orange ocelli on the posterior part of this fin. The caudal is dark grey, outlined in red, this marginal band expanding at the posterodorsal and ventral angles of the fin ; deep maroon streaks occur between the rays. The pelvic fins are black or sooty, the spine and first ray are, however, bluish-white. Females : no live females have been observed. Preserved coloration. Only males are available, all are adult. The ground colour is uniformly light grey-brown ; in some specimens there are traces of up to 7 dark but faint vertical bars across the flanks and caudal peduncle, those on the flanks extending from the dorsal body outline almost to the ventral body margin. The snout is dark grey to dusky, the lower jaw dusky-grey and the lips pale. The ventral aspects of the cheek and operculum are of variable duskiness, almost black in some fishes but only a dark brown in others. The branchiostegal membrane is greyish- sooty. Cephalic markings comprise a usually distinct and intense lachrymal stripe, and 2 transverse bars, of variable intensity, across the snout. The dorsal fin is dark grey to sooty, the membrane between the last few branched rays maculate. The caudal is grey, maculate di
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