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10. Apogon nigromaculatus. 



Hotnbr. i^- Jaequin. Vuy. an Pule Slid, Poiss. p. 82. pi. 1. f. 2. 



The height of the body is one-half of the total length (without 

 caudal) ; the pracorbital with three or four notches beneath. Spines 

 very long and strong ; the second dorsal sjrine longer than one-half 

 the height of the body. Rose-coloured, with small spots of deep 

 black ; fins immaculate. 



New Guinea. 



b. Body with darker transverse bands or oblong transverse spots. 

 11. Apogon orbicularis. 



Apogon orbicidaris, (Kuhl S)- van Hasselt) Ciiv. ^- Val. ii. p. 155, vi. 

 p. 495 ; Bleek. Amb. iS- Cer. p. 254 ; Quoy ^ Gaim. Voy. Astrol. 

 Poiss. p. 648. pi. 1. f. 4 ; Bleek. Act. Soc. Nederl. i. Ainhoina, p. 28. 



A brown zone round the body from the front part of the first 

 dorsal fin to the anus, posteriorly with large, irregular, dark blotches ; 

 the first dorsal with small brown spots ; in the middle of the tail a 

 black longitudinal band. 



Javanese Seas ; Coram. 



■ 12. Apogon nematopterus. 



Bkek. Act. Soc. Nederl. i., Manado eii 3facassar, p. 35. 



A broad, vertical, blackish zone round the body, occupying the 

 whole space beneath the first dorsal fin, posteriorly irregularly spotted 

 with brownish. The first and second rays of the second dorsal pro- 

 duced into filaments. 



Sea of Manado. 



13. Apogon trimaculatus. 



Cuv. fy Val. ii. p. 156. pi. 22 (not Richards. Ichth. China, p. 221) : 

 Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. p. 237. 



Analis with nine soft rays. Pectoral fiins reaching to the middle 

 of the anal fin. Red (in Ufe), with three black transverse spots, 

 forming three half-rings and reaching to the middle of the depth of 

 the body : the first corresponding to the front part of the fii'st dorsal, 

 the second to the second dorsal, and the third to the middle of the 

 back of the tail. 



Bum (Moluccas). 



Four pyloric appendages. {Cuv.) 



14. Apogon rhodopterus. 



Sleeker, Singapoj-e, p. 62. 



Analis with seven or eight soft rays ; pectoral fins not reaching 

 to the analis. Greenish, with two transvei-se bands, the fii'st placed 

 beneath the front part of the first dorsal, the second beneath the 



