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line near dorscal base from tip of snout to caudal base, the second 

 in the middle of the side of body and the third in the lower 

 parts of body ; pores on the side and upper surface of head. 



Color in formalin rather dusky in ground color, ventral side 

 slightly paler ; about fourteen broad light-colored squarish cross- 

 bands at equal intervals, the anterior and posterior ones being rather 

 indistinct; in touch with the band on each side are three differently 

 colored cross-lines which fuse together side by side. The first cross- 

 line is narrow, yellow in color and situated just outside the above- 

 mentioned band ; outside it lies the second cross-line which is some- 

 what broad, bluish, and more or less irridescent; the third cross-line 

 is narrow and brownish in color. Fainter cross-bands intervene 

 everywhere between the before-mentioned bands. Head with two, 

 longitudinal, parallel, bluish, irridescent bands on side, the upper 

 one of which originates from beneath tip of lower jaw near mouth- 

 corner, crosses mouth-cleft and reaches behind the middle of the 

 postorbital part of head ; while the lower one originates behind 

 mouth-corner, crosses lower margin of pupil and ends near gill- 

 slit. Dorsal fin dusky, narrowly blackish near margin, the margin 

 whitish, its rays yellowish ; a deep azure, white-margined ocellus of 

 oblong shape on b^^ ray, or between 5'^' and 6^^ rays, or between 

 4^'' and 5^'' rays according to individuals, its longitudinal diameter 

 longer than pupil ; a longer bluish blotch with white edge 

 extends from 10'^ to 15^'' rays of dorsal ; the dorsal fin with two or 

 three longitudinal, somewhat irregular, yellowish bands extending 

 from origin of the fin to behind last-mentioned blotch ; behind the 

 blotch directly inside black margin a series of bluish oblong 

 spots. Ground color of anal same as that of dorsal, with blackish 

 margin ; on it three or four, rather irregular series of bluish 

 oblong spots, the spots growing fainter and indistinct anteriorly ; 



