28. PLATYGLOSSUS. 143 



of brown S2)0ts ; fins greenish, immaculate ; a short brown longitudi- 

 nal streak, edged with white, from the opercular lobe to the end of 

 the pectoral. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



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



b. Fine specimen. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



8. Stethojulis phekadopleura. 



Julis phekadopleiu-a, Sleek. Verhand. Batav.Genootsch. xxii. Bali,'p.8. 

 Stethojidis phekadopleura, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. p. 134. tab. 43. fig. 5. 



D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 26. 



The height of the body is more than one-fourth of the total 

 length, and nearly equal to the length of the head. Head with a 

 more or less distinct yellowish band from the snout, below the eye, 

 to the operculum ; upper parts densely dotted, sides reticulated with 

 yellow ; the lower parts of the side with series of brown dots ; dorsal 

 fin with yellow and violet spots, the other fijis orange-coloured. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



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



28. PLATYGLOSSUS*. 



Platiglossus, sp., Klein, Pise. Miss. iv. p. 40. 



Halichceres, sp., RU})2)ell. 



Jidis, sp., Cuv. 6f Val. 



Halichceres, Giinth. Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1861, ^iii. p. 386. 



Platyglossus, Halichceres, Macrophar\'iigodon, Giintheaia, et Hemi- 



tautoga, meek. Proc. Zool. Soc. 186l, pp. 411, 412, 413. 

 Chcerojulis, Gillin Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1862, p. 142. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with scales of moderate size (L. 

 lat. 30 or less) ; head naked f ; lateral line not internipted ; scales 

 on the thorax smaller than those on the body. A posterior canine 

 tooth ; none of the anterior canine teeth are bent outwards and back- 

 wards. Dorsal spines nine. 



Seas between the tropics and the parts adjoining them. 



1. Platyglossus dussumieri. 



? Seha, iii. tab. 31. fig. 2. 

 Sahnee moia, RusseU, ii. fig. 120. 



* 1. Julis margaritaceus. Cuv. S( Val. xiii. p. 484. — Yanicolo. 



2. auritiis, Cin: &^ Val. xiii. p. 486.— Ulea. 



3. ■ purpureo-lineatus, Cnv. Sf Val. xiii. p. 471. — Ceylon. 



4. Renard, fig. 1 1 .5.— Jidis punctulatus, Cuv. ^- Val. xiii. p. 483. — East Indies. 

 .'). Julis horsfieldii, Cuv. 4' Val. xiii. p. 48(>. — Siam. 



fi. patatus, pt. (un quatrieme indi\idu, &c.), Cuv. 8f Val. xiii. p. 400. — ■ 



Cuba. 



7. gillianu8, Poei/, Mem. Cub. ii. p. 214. — Cuba. 



8. Labrus pictus, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 80. — East Indies. 



t A few rudimentary scales behind the orbit in P. fiorfulanus and P. notaph- 

 thalmus. 



