8. DIAGRAMMA. 327 



Diagramma orieulale, C'ltv. Sf Vul. v. p. 299, pi. 124 ; Bleeker, Verh. 



Bat. Gen. xxiii. ticiatn. p. 23. 

 sibbaldii, Benn. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 182. 



The height of the body is 3 1 in the total length, the length of the 

 head 4^. Dorsal fin notched ; spines moderate, the second anal 

 spine stronger and longer than the third. A white spot across the 

 muzzle, another across the neck, a third near the end of the spinous 

 dorsal, a fourth round the tail ; belly of white coloiu", extending on 

 several parts of the side of the body ; dorsal fin black, above the 

 white spots white. Caudal white, with a black longitudinal streak, 

 and with blackish margins. 



Seas of Ceylon and Bali. 



«. Half-grown. Ceylon. From the Collection of the Zoological 

 Societj'. TjT)e of Diagramma sibbaldii. 



17. Diagramma pictiun. 



Seba, iii. 26. 32 (very bad). 



Perca picta, Thunb. Nya Handl. xiii. p. 141. pi. 5. 



Grammistes pietus, Bl. Schn. p. 190. 



Lutjauus pietus, Lacep. v. pp. 687, 688. 



Diagramma pictum, Cuv. (§• Val. v. p. 315 ; Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 62 ; 



Richardson, Ichth. China, p. 227. 

 Plectorli)Tichu3 balteatus. Cant. Catal. p. 78. 



D. ^°. A. |. L. lat. ca. 95. C^c. pylor. 5. 



The height of the body is 85 in the total length, the length of the 

 head 4j ; the diameter of the eye is 3| in the latter. The dorsal 

 fin is slightly notched, and has the second spine elevated, ^ or |- of 

 the greatest depth of the body. Ca;udalis convex. The second anal 

 spine stronger and a httle longer than the third. Belly yellowish ; 

 back and sides brown, with four (in varieties with less or more) white 

 longitudinal bands. The fii'st from the muzzle along the median line 

 of the crown, bifurcating on tlie neck into two bands, one on each 

 side ; the lateral i^art runs to the anterior part of the soft dorsal, 

 sending upwards a vertical portion to the fii-st three dorsal spines. 

 The second band, broader, from the nostiil above the eye to the back 

 of the taU, continued on the last rays of the dorsal, as well as on 

 the upper part of the caudal. The third from the lower margin of 

 the orbit to the lower part of the caudal. The fourth, indistinct from 

 the yellowish coloration of the belly, from the snout to behind the 

 anal fin. The spinous dorsal black, between the fii'st three spines 

 white ; the soft portion with a broad white longitudinal band, and 

 with the posterior rays white. The caudal with a bi-oad black median 

 band, and with two oblique ones of the same colour on each lobe ; 

 the anterior half of the anal black, the remainder white ; pectoral 

 colourless, ventral black in the outer half. 



Coast of Pondicherry ; Seas of Pinang, Java , and Amboyna ; Chinese 

 and Japanese Seas. 



