28. PLATTGLOSSUS. 159 



fourth of the total. Caudal truncated. Violet, each scale with a green 

 crescent ; head with blue streaks and spots. Vertical fins greenish, 

 with numerous ocelli ; a blackish spot at the base between the tivo first 

 dorsal spines. Pectoral tuithout a dark band across the base. 



Sumatra and Bali, 

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



37. Platyglossus kallochroma. 



Julia kallochroma, Bkek. Sumatra, ii. p. 289. 



Platyglossus kallocliroma, Bleek. Si/ti. Labr. p. 11, and Atl.Ichth. p. 108. 

 tab. 42. fig. 4. 



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



The height of the body is a little less than one-fourth of the total 

 length, the length of the head two-ninths. Caudal fin rounded. 

 Head reddish-violet, with blue bands and spots ; body red, with about 

 ten violet, blue-edged stripes ; vertical fins b^ownish-^^olet, with 

 numerous small blue spots : dorsal and anal edged with ycUow and 

 blue ; anal with two yellow, blue-edged bands besides, one along the 

 base, and the other along the middle ; anc/les of the caudal yelloiv, 

 the yellow part being edged with blue interiorly. Pectoral red, ^vith 

 a violet streak across the base. 



Sumatra. Nias. 



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



38. Platyglossus vrolikii. 



Julis vrolikii, Bleek. Batoe, p. 323. 



Platvglossus vrolikii, Bleek. Syn. Lahr. p. 12, and Atl. Ichth. p. 110. 

 tab. 42. fig. 2. 



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



The height of the body is contained four times or four times and 

 a quarter in the total length, the length of the head foui" times and 

 a half. Caudal roimded ; the fii-st ventral ray produced. Head yel- 

 low, with reddish-violet bands edged with darker: one from the 

 snout to the eye, a second curved from below the eye to the suboper- 

 culum, two parallel ones behind the eye united by a transverse spot, 

 a fourth on the snout and forehead, and a fifth transverse one on 

 the membrane, of the operculum. Anterior portion of the back with 

 six to eight reddish-violet longitudinal bands, formed by confluent 

 spots ; posterior part of the back with four yellow cross-bars edged 

 with violet, and scarcely extending below the lateral line ; each scale 

 on the sides with a violet transverse spot ; dorsal fin with three series 

 of red, blue-edged ocelli and with a blue intramarginal line ; anal 

 Nvith two or three undidated red, blue-edged bands and with a blue 

 intramarginal line ; caudal with similar occUi as the dorsal ; pec- 

 toral with a black spot suj^eriorly at the base ; a black occUus supe- 

 riorly at the root of the caudal fin. 



Batu, Nias, Banka. 



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



