FAMILY, XLI— LABEID^. 399 



the vertical fins, -u-liicli have blue margins : a large vertical green crescent-shaped mark covered ■with light 

 spots on the middle of the caudal fin, basal half of pectoral black. Variety. — A specimen (fig. G) captured at 

 the Andamans has the marks on the head and body deep brown, whilst the crescentic band on the 

 caudal fin envelopes the whole of it except its outer angles, and instead of its being covered with light spots 

 it has brovm undulating vertical bands. The black base to the pectoral is absent. 



Eahitat. — Red Sea, through the seas of India to the Malay Archipelago. Figure 5 is from a specimen 

 captured in the Malay Archipelago, and for it I am indebted to Dr. Hubrecht, of Leyden. Figure 6 is from the 

 variety I obtained at the Andamans. Both are life-size. 



4. Platyglosus Dussumieri, Plate LXXXV, fig. 1. 



Lahrus, Seba, iii, p. 94, t. 31, fig. 2. 



.'' Lahrus nigrescens, Bl. Schn. p. 263. 



Lahrus salmee nioia, Russell, ii, p. 15, pi. 120. 



Julis Bussuynieri, Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 478, pi. 387 ; Cantor, Catal. p. 23G ; Jerdon, M. J. L. and Sc. 

 1851, p. 135. 



Jidis exornatus, Richards, Ich. China, p. 258. 



Julis (Malichceres') notophtludmus, Bleeker, Labr. p. 20. 



.hd'is (HalichceresJ viola, Bleeker, En. pise. Ind. Arch. p. 98. 



Halichreres nigrescens, Bleeker, Atlas Ichthyologique, i, 118, t. 37, f. 4. 



HalicJueres Buss^miieri, Giinther, Ann. Nat. Hist. 18G1, p. 386. 



Platyglossus Dussumieri, Giinther, Catal. iv, p. 143 ; Kner, NovaiU Fische, p. 254. 



Platyglossus nigrescens, Day, Fish. Malabar, p. 157. 



Kullaray nieen, Mai. 



B. vi, D. A, P. 15, V. 1/5, A. ^, C. 15, L. 1. 28-29, L. tr. 3/10. 



Length of head 4 to 4j, of caudal 6i, height of body 4 to 4^ in the total length. Eyes — diameter 5 iu 

 length of head, l^ diameters from end of snout, and 1 apart. Fins — dorsal spines slender : first ray of ventral 

 prolonged : caudal rounded. Colours — green, with some irregular violet bands between the eyes, and one from 

 them to the snout : two or thi-ee pass over the opercles : back bluish, chequered with dull purplish red. A black 

 spot with a light anterior edge at the base of the pectoral. Dorsal and anal greenish, with an oval yellow spot 

 between the base of each ray, and another near their summits, the soft portions with a broad purplish external 

 margin : a blackish ocellus, with a yellow edge, between its fifth and and seventh spines. Caudal with a broad 

 blue transverse band having red spots, its angles being orange with a red base. 



Habitat. — East coast of Africa, seas of India, to the Malay Ai-chipelago and beyond. 



5. Platyglossus leparensis, Plate LXXXIV, fig. 3. 



Jidis (Halicliaires) leparensis, Bleeker, Banka, iii, p. 730. 



HaUchoires lejmrensis, Bleeker, Syn. Labr. p. 287, and Atl. Ich. i, p. 119, t. xlii, f. 5. 



Platyglossus leparensis, Giinther, Catal. iv, p. 156. 



B. vi, D. 3%, P. 14, A. tV, C. 15, L. 1. 26-28, L. tr. 3i/8. 



Length of head 4, of caudal 6, height of body 4^ to 4^ in the total length. Eyes — diameter 4i in the 

 length of head, li diameters from end of snout, and 1 apart. Fins — caudal rounded. Colours — a broad brown 

 streak from the eye to the snout, and a brown spot behind the orbit, which is continued, but in a lighter shade, 

 to the tail : four narrow curved yellowish lines on the upper portion of the opercle. Body vertically banded. 

 A narrow silvery line from the eye to the caudal fin, and below it four or five more : many of the scales with 

 brown spots, espiecially those above the lateral-line. Dorsal fin with one or two I'ows of light round spots : two 

 black ocelli on the dorsal fin, the anterior between the first two spines, and the posterior between the first two 

 or three rays,. occasionally a third posterior one, on the upper third of the base of the caudal fin on the free 

 portion of the tail : caudal fin yellowish red. 



Habitat. — Andamans to the Malay Archipelago. The one figured is life-size. 



6. Platyglossus hortulanus, Plate LXXXV, fig. 3. 



Lahrus hortulamis, Lacep. iii, p. 51(>, t. xxix, fig. 2. 



Lahrus centiquadrus, (Commers.) Lacep. iii, p. 493. 



Sparus decussatus, Bennett, Fish. Ceylon, p. 14, jjI. xiv. 



Halichceres eximius, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 16, t. v, f. 1. 



Julis Jiortidanus, Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 430 ; Bleeker, Batav. iv, p. 484. 



Julis decussatus, Cuv. an_d Val. xui, p. 433. 



Ichthycallus decussatus, Swainson, Fishes, ii, p. 232. 



Eemitautoga centriquadra, Bleekei", Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 413, and Atl. Ich. i, p. 139, t. sxxii, f. 3. 



HalicJueres hortidanus, Giinther, Labr. Ann. Xat. Hist. 1861, p. 386. 



Platyglossus hortulanus, Giinther, Catal. iv, p. 147; Klunz. Verb. z. b. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 546. 



Hembili-giraivah, " Basket-parrot," Cingalese. 



B. vi, D. ^;t»j^, p. 15, V. 1/5, A. tV, C. 15, L. L 28, L. tr. 2i-/9, Vert. 10/15. 



