1. TKUTHIS. 323 



fin emarginate. Greenish, with several irregular yellowish longitu- 

 dinal lines, and with brownish cross-bands extending on the dorsal 

 fin. (Riij^j).) 

 Ked Sea. 



Riippell says that the pyloric appendages are absent in this species. 

 25. Teiithis tetrazona. 



Aniphacanthus tetrazona, Bleek. Cvlebcs, vii. p. 441. 



The height of the body is contained twice and three-fifths in the 

 total length. Caudal fin slightly emarginate. Yellow, with four pairs 

 of undulated brownish bands across the back. {Bl.) 



Coast of Manado. 



26. Teuthis doliata. 



Siganus doliatus, Cuv. Regne Anim. ; Guerin, Iconogr. Poiss. pi. 35. 



fig. 1. 

 Amphacanthus doliatus, Cuv. ^ Val. x. p. 132 ; Cuv. Regne Anim. III. 



Poiss. pi. 71. fig. 1 ; Bleek. Ternate, ii. p. 605. 



The height of the body is contained twice and two-thii-ds in the 

 total length. Orange-colom-ed, with about thirty vertical bluish lines, 

 the last of which are bent, and ran longitudinally along the hinder 

 part of the tail ; those above the pectoral are oblique, and those on 

 the operculum reticulated. — Csec. pylor. 6. 



Coasts of Booroo, Ternate, Vanicolo, and Timor. 



27. Teuthis puella. 



Amphacanthus pueUus, Schleg. Bi/dr. tot de Dierk. 1852, p. 39. fig. 2. 

 Amphacanthus cyanotsenia, Bleek. Ternate, ii. p. 606. 



The height of the body is contained thrice and a fifth in the total 

 length. Orange-coloured: the anterior portion of the sides with 

 about six undulated blue transverse streaks, the posterior with blue 

 longitudinal streaks, which are united with the hindmost transverse 

 streak ; a broad brown band from the neck through the eye to the 

 the lower jaw. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



28. Teuthis virgata. 



Amphacanthus virgatus, Ctiv. <5- Vcd. x. p. 133 ; Midi. S,- Schleg. Verh. 

 Ovef-z. Bez. Vissch.'^. 14. pi. 3. fig. 1 ; Bleek. Verh. Bafav. Genootsvh. 

 xxiii., Teuth. p. 11. 



The height of the body is two-fifths or three-sevenths of the total 

 length. Body light brownish-yeUow, forehead and neck with bluish 

 transverse stripes ; an oblique deep-brown, blue-edged band descends 

 from the fourth and sixth dorsal spines to the root of the pectoral ; 

 a second similar band from the origin of the dorsal to the orbit ; 

 the .space between the two bands is vellow ; scattered blue dots on 



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