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belly ; a bluish streak edged with darker ascends from the eye, 

 obliquely upwards and backwards, to meet its fellow on the nape of 

 the neck ; base of the pectoral whitish, without black spot ; base of 

 the dorsal Jin violet, two or three narrow lines along its upper half; 

 caudal with tliree curved concentric lines and with the comers 

 brownish. 



Atlantic coasts of tropical America, 



a-f. Adult and half-grown : skins. Jamaica. From Dr. Pamell's 



Collection. 

 g. Young. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's Collection. 

 h, i. Adult. Puerto Cabello. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 

 k, I, m. Adult and half-grown. 



53. Platyglossus humeralis. 



Julis humeralis, Poei/, Mem. Cub. ii. p. 212. 



D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 2/9. 



The height of the body is one-fifth of the total length, the length 

 of the head two-ninths. Caudal truncated. A black spot, edged 

 with pearl-colour posteriorly, on the extremity of the operculum. 

 A brown band runs from the snout, through the eye and the opercular 

 spot, across the bend of the lateral line to the base of the caudal; a 

 second from below the axil along the side of the belly ; a bluish streak 

 edged with darker ascends from the eye, obliquely upwards and back- 

 wards, to meet its fellow on the nape of the neck ; base of the pec- 

 toral whitish, without black spot; a black batul along the middle of 

 the dorsal ; caudal A\ith blue comers. 



Coast of Cuba. 



a. Adult. From Mr. Stoke's" Collection. 



54. Platyglossus macidipinna. 

 Julis maculipinna, Miill. ^ Trosch. Hist. Barhnd. p. 674. 

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



Caudal rounded. Dorsal Jin luith a black spot between the fifth and 

 seventh sjjines, and ^dth a band along the middle of the soft portion ; 

 a small black spot jjosteriorly in the axil of the dorsal ; a broad dark 

 band riuis from the head to the caudal fin, below the lateral hne ; 

 sometimes a dark spot below the band on the middle of the body ; a 

 blue band from the snout through the eye to the operculum, and 

 another above it from the snout to the eye ; both bands are united, 

 forming a V. Three bluish bands across the nape, and three white 

 ones on the cheek. Base of the pectoral with a small black spot. 



Caribbean Sea. 



a. Half-!?rown. 



b-d. Adult and half-grown : skins. West Indies. 



f. Half-grown : skin. Trinidad. Presented by J. B. Richardson, Esq. 



