54 POMACENTEIB^. 



Browiiish-olive, each scale with a light vertical streak ; sides of the 

 snout with two bluish hnes ; dorsal fin of the same colour as the 

 back, with a roundish deep-hlach spot on the base of the four last 

 rays ; ventral and anal black ; pectoral u'ithout axillary spot. 



Var. a. The free portion of the tail yellowish, caudal blackish. 

 a-h. Thirty-three and twenty-three lines long. Amboyna. Pur- 

 chased of Mr. Frank. 



Var. /3. Tail and caudal bright yellow. 

 c. Thirty-one lines long. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



43. Gljrphidodon anabatoides. 



JBleeker, Lahr. Cten. p. 28. 



The height of the body is two-fifths of the total length (the caudal 

 fin not included). Snout as long as the eye ; the width of the prse- 

 orbital is one-third of that of the orbit; suborbital inconspicuous. 

 Caudal fin deeply forked, with the lobes pointed. Violet, each scale 

 with a blue dot ; a blue spot at the origin of the lateral line ; dorsal 

 greenish, blackish superiorly, dotted with blue ; anal greenish, black- 

 ish inferiorly, dotted with yellowish ; caudal with a brownish longi- 

 tudinal band on each lobe ; pectoral with a blackish spot superiorly ; 

 ventral greenish. 



Coast of Java. 

 a. Fine specimen. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



44. Glyphidodon bankieri. 



Glyphisodon bankieri, Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 253. 

 nemurus, Bleeher, Booroo, ii. p. 73. 



DmI^- ^■^.- L-lat. 26-28. 



The height of the body is two-fifths of the total length (the caudal 

 fin not included) ; the snout is shorter than the eye ; the width of 

 the infraorbital ring below the orbit is less than one-third of that 

 of the orbit; each jaw with about forty teeth, the anterior ones 

 short, distinctly compressed. The middle rays of the dorsal and anal 

 fins form an angular point ; caudal deeply forked, with the lobes 

 more or less produced into filaments. Violet : tail and caudal fin 

 orange-coloured ; the scales on the head and tail with a blue dot, 

 those on the trunk with a transverse streak ; a blue ocellus edged 

 with brown at the origin of the lateral line. Dorsal fin brownish- 

 violet, yellow posteiiorly ; anal brownish-yeUow ; pectoral with a 

 large brown spot superiorly at the base. 



Coasts of China, Booroo, and Amboyna. 

 a-h. Types of the species. China. Presented by Sir J. Eichardson. 

 0. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. — One of the typical specimens 

 of G. nemurus. 



