242 TERCID^. 



k, 1. Adult : skin. Australia. Voyage of H.M.S. Fty. 



m. Adult : stiiffed. Australia. From Mr. Warwick's Collection. 



n. Half-grown. East Indies. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



43. Apogon cyanosoma. 



Bleeker, Solor, p. 71. 



Blue (in life), with six golden longitudinal bands ; fins red, imma- 

 culate. Caudalis slightly notched ; the upper maxillaiy bone reaching 

 to behind the middle of the eye ; prteopereulum with the posterior 

 and inferior edges denticulated ; sub- and interoperculum entire. 

 L. lat. 23. L. transv. 8. 



Sea of Lawajong (Solor). 



44. Apogon cyanotaenia. 



Bleeker, Solor, p. 71. 



Eose-coloured (in life) ; back with foiu* or five brown longitudinal 

 stripes ; sides with two orange- coloured bauds ; head mth blue longi- 

 tudinal streaks ; fins immaculate, a black spot at the root of the caudal 

 fin. Caudalis notched ; the upper maxillary bone reaching to behind 

 the middle of the eye ; prseoperculum with denticulated inferior and 

 posterior margins ; sub- and interoperculum entire. L. lat. 25. 

 L. transv. 8-9. 



Sea of Lawajong (Solor). 



45. Apogon multitaeniatus. 



JBleeker, Fere. p. 28 (? Cuv. ^- Val. ii. p. 159). 



Caudalis notched ; purple-coloured (in life), with 10-13 brown 

 longitudinal streaks on each side ; fins not spotted. 

 Bima (Sumbava Island). 



46. Apogon hartzfeldii, 



Bleeker, Natimrk. Tydsehr. Neclerl. Indie, iii. 1852, p. 254, and vi. p. 482. 



Caudahs sHghtly notched. Eose-coloured (in life) ; a large roimd 

 black blotch on the base of the caudal fin ; on each side of the back, 

 near the dorsal line, a Ught-blue longitudinal baud ; the second dorsal 

 fin and the anaUs with a browai band along the base. 



Sea of Amboyna. 



a. Adult. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



47. Apogon chrysotsenia. 



Bleeker, Natuurk. Tydsehr. Nederl. Indie, 1851, p. 168. 



L. lat. 25. L. transv. 9. The thud dorsal spine longest. Cau- 

 dalis notched. Greyish brown, ■with two deep olive longitudinal bands 

 on the back and three golden ones on the side. The spinous dorsal 

 fin violet, the others red. {Bleeker.) 



Batavia. 



