150 LABRID^. 



tudinal bands : the first is united on the snout with that of the other 

 side, and proceeds above the eye, near the base of the dorsal, to the 

 back of the tail ; the second runs from the snout, through the eye, 

 to the base of the caudal, and is interrupted on the operculwm by a 

 bright-red spot. Dorsal fin with three series of rosy ocelli edged 

 with violet, and luith a violet spot betiueen the first and third sjrines ; 

 anal immaculate ; caudal with rose-coloured ocelli, and with a black- 

 ish ocellus superiorly at the base. Pectoral with a blackish spot supe- 

 riorly at the axU. 



Pinang, Java, Nias, Celebes, and Sangi. 



a. Half-grown. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



b. Half -grown : skin. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



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



Dr. Cantor has confounded two species under the name of J. niola, 

 two of his typical specimens which are in the British Museum be- 

 longing to J. hyrtelii, Bleek., and a third to PI. bicolor, Schn. 



14. Platyglossus knerii. 



Halichceres knerii, Bleek. Syn. Labr. p. 34, &xidiAtl. Ichth. p. 119. tab. 39. 

 fig.l. 



D. :^. A. -1. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 2/9. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is con- 

 tained four times and a foui'th in the total length. Brownish-oHve 

 (in spirits), ivith two broiun longitudinal bands on each side : the 

 upper on the back, along the base of the dorsal, confluent with its 

 fellow on the nape ; the second from the eye to the upper part of 

 the base of the caudal ; an oblique brown spot between the third and 

 fifth dorsal rays. A black dot superiorly in the axil of the pectoral. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



a. Thirty-one lines long. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



15. Platyglossus miniatus. 



Julis miniatus, (Kukl ^ v. Hass.) Cuv. (§• Vol. xiii. p. 460 ; Bhek. Ver- 

 hand. Batav. Getwotsch. xxii. Bali, p. 8, and Act. Sac. Sc. Indo-Ne- 

 derl. i. Amhuina, p. 60. 



miniatus, pt., Bleck. Timor, p. 171. 



Halichceres miniatus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. p. 114. tab. 41. fig. 5. 



D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 28. L. transv. 2/9. 



The height of the body is equal to the leng-th of the head, and 

 rather less than one-fourth of the total. Caudal rounded. Red : most 

 of the scales along the middle of the sides with a blackish spot ; six 

 blackish spots along the back ; sides of the beUy with numerous 

 crescent- shaped vertical streaks ; a deep-violet spot behind the eye; 

 a curved silvery streak from the angle of the mouth to below the 

 orbit, bent downwards over the operculum to the interoperculum. 

 Dorsal fin with numerous oblique, undulated violet lines, descending 



