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with a blue dot ; tail and caudal fin orange-coloured, the latter with 

 a large irregular spot at the base ; dorsal and anal fins black, pos- 

 teriorly edged with yellow ; ventrals brown. (BI.) 

 Coast of Banda Neira. 



11. Heliastes notatus. 



Schleg. Fatm. Japon. Poiss. p. 66. 



D. i|. A. A. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 3/10. 



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

 fin not included). Teeth in a distinct band, with an outer series of 

 larger ones. The nine posterior dorsal spines are of moderate strength, 

 and nearly equal in length, which is rather more than one-half of 

 that of the head. The soft dorsal and the caudal lobes pointed. 

 Caudal deeply forked ; the second anal spine is stronger and somewhat 

 longer than the dorsal spines. Yellowish-olive (in spirits); a roimd 

 white spot on the back below the end of the dorsal fin ; axil of the 

 pectoral brown. 



Chinese and Japanese Seas. 



a. Five and a quarter inches long. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



12. Heliastes lepidurus. 



Heliases lepidiunis, Ciiv. 4" ?'«'• v. p. 498 ; Bkek. Iclith. Sumb. Journ. 



Ltd. Arclup. 1848. 

 Gl^-phisodon bandanensis, BIcek. Banda, i. p. 248. 

 Hehases frenatus, Bleek. Coram, ii. p. 710 (not Cuv. S^ Val.). 

 cseruleus, Bleek. Kokos, iv. p. 455 (not Cuv. llf Vol.). 



D. f^. A. ^. L. lat. 27. L. transv. ^. 



The height of the body is one-half of the total length (the caudal 

 not included). There is only one distinct series of teeth. Dorsal 

 spines slender ; the length of the second anal spine is cne-thii'd of 

 that of the head ; caudal fin forked, scaly. Greenish-oKve, the scales 

 on the head and on the back with a blue dot ; a blue line from the 

 orbit across the praeorbital ; hinder part of the axil black. 



Coasts of New Guinea and of the East Indian Archipelago. 



a-c. Adult and young. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 d. Half-grown : not good state. From Dr. P. v, Bleeker's Collection 

 as H. cceriileus. 



13. Heliastes tematensis. 



Sleeker, Ternate, vii. p. 377. 



D.l?. A.^. L. lat. 28. 



The height of the body is a little more than one-half, or one-half, 

 of the total length (the caudal fin not included). Teeth apparently 

 in one scries only. Caudal fin deeply forked ; the second anal spine 

 shorter than the first soft ray. Brownish- violet, each scale^vith a bhiish 



