28. I'LATYGLOSSUS. 153 



20. Platyglossus trimaculatus. 



Julis trimaculata, Quoy lij- Gaim. Voy. Astrol. Zoul. ii. p. 705. pi. 20. 



tig. 2 ; Cur. 4- Val. x'iii. p. 452 (not p. 386). 



spilurus, lik'ek. Bandit, i. p. 252. 



Giintlieria trimaculata, Bh-cl;. Si/non. Lahr. in Versl. Akad. Wet. Am- 



sterd. xiii. p. 291, and Atl. Ichth. p. 138. tab. 32. fig. 1. 



D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 29. L. transv. |. Vert. 10/15. 



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

 rather more than one-fourth of the total. Caudal truncated. Head 

 with a broad bluish band from the snout, below the eye, bent down- 

 wards across the operculum and suboperculum ; several other oblong 

 spots above this band ; a crescent on the interoperculum and the 

 margin of the suboperculum bluish ; an obhque white streak fi'om the 

 axil to the belly. Each scale with a bluLsh vertical streak ; a darJc- 

 brown sj^ot near the root of the caudal, above the lateral line; sometimes 

 one or two other brown spots on the side of the body. Dorsal with 

 three, anal with two longitudinal lines, which are whitish in spirits ; 

 a small black spot superiorly in the axil. 



Sea of Vanicolo. East Indian Ai'chipelago. 



a, b-c, d-g. From the Haslar Collection. 

 h. Skeleton. 



21. Platyglossus binotopsis. 



Halichcsres binotopsis, Bleek. in Verhand. Butav. Genootsch. xxii. Bali, 

 p. 7 ; Timor, p. 1 70, and Atl. Ichth. p. 120. tab. 40. fig. 4. 



D. ^. A. l^. L. lat. 25. 



The height of the body is two-ninths of the total length, the length 

 of the head one-fourth. Caudal fin rounded. Back reticulated with 

 blackish-violet and brownish, and with foiu' or five darker cross- 

 bands ; head with irndulated reddish- violet streaks; tail superiorhj 

 at the base of tlte caudal with a black, red-edged spot; dorsal with 

 numerous red ocelli, and ivith iivo black, red-edged spots, one betw^een 

 the first and second spines, the other between the first and third 

 rays ; anal with yellow ocelli ; caudal orange-coloured ; a violet streak 

 across the base of the pectoral. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



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



22. Platyglossus hcevenii. 



Halichoeres hrevenii, Bieek. Banda, i. p. 250. 



Platyglossus hoevenii, pt., Bkek. Atl. Ichth. p. 111. tab. 42. fig. 3. 



D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 28. 



The height of the body is one-fourth of the total length, and 

 nearly equal to the length of the head. Caudal rounded. Brownish : 

 he<id and bodg with eight or nine e<trmine-red longitudinal bands ; 

 snout yellow ; a bluish spot behind the orbit ; fins red, dorsal and 



