SUPPLEMENT, 1888. 803 



ecmal in its hi<rhest portion to about one-tbird tie height of tlie body, and similar to tbe 

 anal Caudaf rounded. Colours— hoAj and fins of a deep olive bistre, the body longitu- 

 dinally striated witb about thirteen lines of sepia. An elongated Iftch of a b lack 

 colour, and having a grayish white margin filling up the middle halt of the dorsal fin 

 from the eleventh to the fifteenth ray. Caudal tawny with a wide central and vertical 

 brown band, ronn?.— Caudal tawny white with the band of pale Indianred. 



Eabitat —The larger example which is figured, is a little over -1 inches m length ; both 

 were taken on November 27th, 1862, at Saddle Island off Kyoukphyoo. 



Page 400. Add Plattglossus javanicus. 



jMhsjawa^itcits, Sleeker, Java iv, p. 341. ^^, ^ , .,. , ,p, 

 Ealichceres javanicus, Bleeker, Atl. Ich.i, p. l2o, Labroidei, pi. si, f. 3. 

 Platyglussiis javanicus, Giinther, Catal. iv, p. 145. 

 B. vi, D. ^, P. 15, V. 1/5, A. A, C. 12, L. 1. 28. 



Length of head 3f, of caudal fin 6, height of body 4i to 4i in the total length. -^i/«- 

 diameter 4 in the length of the head. If diameters from the end of the snout and ^ to 1 

 diameter apart, f ms-spines of dorsal fin not so high as the rays : caudal rounded^ 

 Colours— oi a brownish red becoming silvery along the abdomen, a vertical blue band 

 or spot behind the upper half of the orbit : some oblique red streaks on the head : a black 

 spot superiorly at the base of the pectoral fin. Dorsal fin reddish with two or three rows of 

 round yellowish spots, caudal of a similar colour but the spots irregularly disposed. 



Anal fin reddish. ,„ , „, , • • ir-\ 



Hoiitof.— Singapore and Colombo (Haly, Taprohaman, i, p. ibo). 



Add Plattglossus eoseus. 



Page 401. Day., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 264. 



B.vi,D.T^,P.14,V.l/5,A.A.C.14,L.1.28,L.tr.- 



Length of head 41, of caudal fin Gi height of body 3f in the total length. Eyes- 

 diameter i length of head, H diameters from the end of snout and 1 apart. The greatest 

 width of the head equals half its length. Teeth-a posterior canine J'u^.s-caudal slightly 

 rounded • the length of the pectoral equals that of the head behind the middle of the eye : 

 outer ventral ray somewhat elongated. ScaZes-none on the head, those on chest 

 smaller than on the body. Colours-in a spirit specimen rosy, with a large black spot 

 behind the middle of the eye and a small one between the two first dorsal spines: two 

 narrow light bands pass from the eye to the snout : a _ broad orange band along the 

 suborbital ring of bones : body with dark and narrow horizontal bands in its anterior half 

 while seven dark and wider bands pass from the back down the sides. A narrow ligh 

 band goes fi-om the eye to the middle of the base of the caudal fin. Basal third of caudal 

 fin somewhat dark, with its outer edges light. 

 Habitat. — Kurrachee in Sind. 



Page 408. Add CoRis Halei. 



Goris, sp. Haly, Taprobanian, i, 1886, p. 165. 



B.vi,D.A>V.l/5,A.A. L-l-75,L.tr.3/27. 



" Hei-ht of body 3| of the total length, the length of head ^ J'.-^s-anterior dorsal 

 spinrelevated, and equal to the height of the body. Co?o»r.-body vmous-red, barred by 

 eleven purplish-gray stripes : each sc^le with a spot of brilliant emei-ald green Head orange 

 with vfole? red-bordered stripes radiating from the eye, two of these unite to form a broad 

 band de°ceAdinc^from the fourth dorsal spine, past the eye and the mouth to the subopercle. 

 A broad red band on the edge of the opercles. Dorsal fin red gray, with an orange 

 fand covered with small blue spots : anal vinous-red. with an orange border and covered 

 with small blue spots. Caudal dark gi-ay with large b ue, black-eclged spots 



_^„;,;Va^_Ceylon. A somewhat allied species seems to exist m Cons hleelei i, Hubrecht, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876 (4) xvii, p. 214. 

 Page 413. Add Pseudoscarus bataviensis. 



Scarus hataviensis, Bleeker, Java, iv, p. 342. _ r,;„fT,pr Cntal iv n ''SI 



Pseudoscarus hataviensis, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. i, p. 48, t. xu, f. 3 ; Gunther, Catal. iv, p. -rfl. 



B. Y, D. tV, P- 14> V. 1/5, A. I, C. 13, L. 1. 25. „ ^- . « • .v, 



Lencrth of head 4, height of body 3i in the total length. Ejes-d^amebev 6 m the 



len^h^of the head, 'U dfameters from the end of the snout. Teeth-Wo small ones at 



he corner of either aw. Fnis-the dorsal spines of about the same length equalling one- 



