2S. PLATVGLOSSCS. JQl 



a third in the total length; snout pointed ; cleft of the mouth nar- 

 row Body %nth three very broad, rather irregular brown cross- 

 bands, the middle of which extends over the dorsal fin, between the 

 fatth spuie and the fifth ray ; a large yellow ring between the eighth 

 spme and the hfth ray of the dorsal fin ; caud;d yellow. (BL) 

 Coasts of Java, Celebes, Goram, Timor, and Xew Guinea. 



«. Twenty lines long: not good state. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's 

 Collection. 



42. Platyglosstis tennispinis, 

 ^- nrrs- -^- ?.- ^- l^t. 29. L. transv. 2/9. 

 The height of the body equals the length of the head and is two- 

 nmths ot the total. A posterior canine tooth. Dorsal spines shmler, 

 tlexiWe, a.s long as the rays ; caudal rounded; ventral not produced, 

 a httle shorter than the pectoral. Colours in spirits: uniform red- 

 cksh-ohve ; fins whitish ; a large black blotch between the fii-st and 

 tluTd dorsal spmes ; a black spot superiorly in the axd. 

 Seas of China. 



a, b, c. Sixty-two lines long. 



43. Platyglossus semicinctus. 



Julis semicinctus, Ai/ns, Proc. Calif. Acad 1859, p. .32. 

 D. ^. .A.. A 



11 '^- 12" 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is not 

 quite one-fourth of the total. Dark greenish-oUve, with a broad 

 black band arising on the side, at about the middle of the body in 

 height, andpassmg down to join, on the abdomen, the corresponding 

 band from the opposite side : this band is overlaid bv the pectoral 

 hn. Dorsal and anal fins diuskv. Caudal with numerous, narrow, 

 vertical, waving darker and lighter streaks. (Aiires.) 



Cerros Island (coast of Lower California). 



44. Platyglossus cyanostigma. 

 Julis cyanostigma, Cuv. ^- Val. xiii. p. .301. 



;- patatiLs, pt. (deux autres, long de treize pouces, &c.), Cuv. Sc Val. 

 xiii. p. 399. ' r > . ^ 



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



The height of the body is contained three times and a half in the 



t/^1 u^ r' ^^"^ ^"""^^^ ""^ ^^^ ^"^'^ ^o"'' t™^s- <^"'»"^'il trimcated. 

 lU^ddish-ohve (in spirits), each scale on the taU and al.mg the lateral 

 ime wnth a blue spot ; two indistinct light bands along the bodv ■ 

 aead w-ith irregular blue lines, several of which ascend towards the 

 nape ot the neck. A black spot superiorly in the axil of the pectoral, 

 uack with three blackish blotches ; the middle is the darkest, and 



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