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arrangement of the stripes on the body. The British Museum possesses 

 examples of the true A.faseiatus from New South Wales and also from 

 Dr. Bleeker's collection. This is the species figured by Bleeker f. In 

 it the middle lateral stripe forms a large blotch on the base of the cau- 

 dal fin, the upper lateral stripe is strongly curved above and quite 

 distinct from the lateral line, and the stripe between them is short, extend- 

 ing only from the eye to the edge of the operculum. 



Apogon halinensis (Blkr.) has been figured by GuntherJ ; the middlo 

 stripe extends to the end of the middle caudal rays, the upper lateral 

 stripe is nearly straight, and there is no stripe between these two. 



Apogon novemfasciatus (C. V.) has also been figured by Giinther § ; 

 it is very similar in coloration to A. balinensis, but the stripes are 

 broader, and end at the base of the caudal. 



Apogon mblanot^nia (PI. Ill, fig. 4). 



Depth of body 2§-3 times in the length (without caudal) ; length of 

 head 2f times. Snout § as long as the eye, the diameter of which is 

 2 |-3 times in the length of head, interorbital width 4^ times. Lower 

 jaw shorter than the upper ; maxillary extending to below posterior edge 

 of pupil. Outer edge of prseoperculum and suprascapula serrated. Dorsal 

 VII, I 9, Anal II 8. Dorsal spines stout, the second \ as long as 

 the third, which is a little longer than the fourth and more than \ 

 the length of head ; second and spine § the length of head ; outer 

 odgos of soft dorsal and anal straight or slightly emarginate ; pectoral 

 and ventral extending to origin of anal ; caudal notched, with rounded 

 lobes 23-25 scales in a longitudinal series. Caudal peduncle l^-lf 

 times as long as deep. Body with longitudinal blackish' stripes which 

 are, anteriorly, broader than the spaces between them ; a median 

 one from between the eyes to the spinous dorsal, dividing to run on each 

 side below the bases of the dorsal fins and reuniting on the upper part of 

 the caudal peduncle ; the second, slightly curved, from above the eye to 

 the upper part of the root of the caudal ; the third from the upper part of 

 the eye to below the second dorsal ; the fourth from the eye along the 

 middlo of the side, ending in a spot at the base of the caudal ; the fifth 

 from the snout through the lower part of the eye and the base of the 

 pectoral to the lower part of the root of the caudal ; the sixth from the 



t Atlas Ichtfrjrol., VITT, pi. 48, fig. 4. 

 % Fiscbe Siidsee, pi. XX, fig. B. 

 § l.C. fig. A. 



