FAMILY, XLI-LABRID^. 397 



SYNOPSIS or INDIVIDUAL SPECIES. 



1. Stethojulis strigiventer, D. -jS,-, A. -^, L. 1. 20-27. A brown white-edged band from tbe snout to below 

 the eye : lines and dots along the sides. A black spot on last dorsal i-ay, another generally at the base of the 

 caudal fin. Seas of India to the Malay Archiioelago, 



1. Stethojulis* strigiventer, Plate LXXXIV, fig. 7. 



Julis strigiventer, Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 184 ; Cuv. and Val. xui, p. 468 ; Bleeker, Banda, i, 

 p. 251; Peters, Monats. Ak. Wiss. 1855, p. 434. 



HaUehceres strigiventer, Kner, Labr. p. 12. 



Stethojulis strigiventer, Giinther, Annal. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 18G1, p. 386, and Catal. iv, p. 140; Bleeker, 

 Atl. Ich. i, p. 135, t. 43, f. 1 ; Kner, Novara Fische, p. 253. 



B. vi, D. j\, P. 15, V. 1/5, A. tV. C. 14, L. 1. 26-27, L. tr. 2/9. 



Length of head 3^ to 3f , of caudal 55, height of body 4 to 4^ in the total length. S^es— diameter 4 to 

 ih in the length of head, li to 2 chameters from the end of snout, and li apart. Fius^ventral rather short,, 

 caudal rounded. Colours — light bro-^vn, becoming yellowish on the abdomen : a brown band having a white 

 lower edo-e passes from the snout and angle of the mouth below the eye to the opercle : several longitudinal 

 yellow lines and some black dots along the sides, especially in the lower half of the body : a black spot on the- 

 last dorsal ray, another at the base of "the caudal fin, which last mark is apparently sometimes absent. 



In " the Fishes of Zanzibar" a variety is given as follows : " bright green : lower part of the sides with 

 several pale-green longitudinal Imes, on which there are some black dots. A blue, brown-edged band from 

 mouth, below eye, to operculum : sometimes an ocellated spot at the end of the dorsal and on the upper part of 

 the base of the caudal." 



Habitat.— From East Africa through the seas of India to the Malay Archipelago and China. It is very 

 abundant at the Kicobars and Andamans, from the latter of which localities the specimen figui-ed was obtained. 



Genus, 9 — Plattglossus, (Klein), Giinther. 



Halichmros, sp. Riippell ; Julis, sp. Cuv. and Val. ; Maoropharyngodon, Giintheria, and Bemitaidoga,- 

 Bleeker ; Chcerojulis, Gill. 



Bodij ohlong, compressed. Anterior teeth conical, bid neither bent outwards nor bacJcwards : a posterior 

 canine : iriferior pharyngeal teeth juit confluent or pavement-like. A single dorsal fin with less spines (9) than 

 rays (10-14) : arial with three spines and' about the same number of rays (11-14) as the soft dorsal. Scales rather 

 large: those on the thorax smaller than on the remainder of the body:, none on the head (except a feto rudimentary 

 ones behind the eye in two or more species), no enlarged rovj at base of caudal fin. Lateral-line continuous. 



Geographical distribution. — Red Sea, seas of India, and generally tropical and adjacent seas. 



SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. 



1. Platyglossus notopsis, D. J^-, A. ^, L. 1. 27-29. Two black spots on dorsal fin, the first between fii-st 

 and second spines, the largest between third and sixth rays. Andamans to the Malay Archipelago. 



2. Platyglossus HyHlii, I>. t-j-tt. -^- A. ^- 1- 27-28. Two brownish-black longitudinal bands.. 

 Andamans to the Malay Archipelaigo. 



3. Plati/glossiis marginatus, D. yi-ts^ ^- -rr. ^- 1- 27. Undulating green streaks edged with blue on head 

 and anterior half body, and streaks on vertical fins. Red Sea, through seas of India to the Malay Archi- 

 pelago. 



4. Platyglossus Bmsumieri, D. ■^, A. ■^, L. 1. 28-29. Bluish-green, scales chequered with dull purplish 

 red. A black spot at base of pectoral. ' A bluish ocellus between fiith and seventh dorsal spines. East coast of 

 Africa, seas of India to the Malay Archipelago and beyond. 



5. Plati/glossios leparensis, D. yV. -A- fV, L. 1. 26-28. Brown streak from eye to snout, and a silvery band, 

 from eye to tail, with four and five more below it. Two spots on dorsal fin. Andamans to ths Malay Archi- 

 pelago. 



6. Platyglossios hortulanus, D. yt-tz-. ^- rr. L. 1. 28. Broad bluish streaks on the head, and bluish spots 

 on first part of the back. From one to three yeUow spots on back below the base of the dorsal fin. Red Sea, 

 seas of India to the Malay Ai-chipelago and beyond. 



• JvMs Finlaysordi, Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 471, may be a Stethojulis. The description was made from a drawing, executed in 

 Siam by Major Finlayson. The colours are greenish. Commencing at the corner of the mouth and passing Ijcloiv the eye is a light 

 bro%Tn lateral band covered with deeper coloured spots. The dorsal light pink, bordered with red. having a red spot at the base of each 

 spme and ray : the anal is figured as similar, but the basal spots are not distinct in Sir W. Elliot's figure. Caudal bluish, with three 

 oblique bands on either lobe. There is also a row of red spots between the lateral liand and the back in Sir W. Elliot's figure. Under 

 surface of the head silvery, with a tinge of orange. Amougst Sir W. Elliot's drawings of fishes I found one which agrees with Major 

 Finlayson 's, it is marked julis. 



Habitat.— Siam (not Ceylon) is- noted on the original drawing, and Madras. See Jerdoc, M. J, L. and Sc. 1.S31, p. 135. 



