330 PRISTIPOIIATID^. 



a longitudinal brown band following the back, continuing above the 

 base of the soft dorsal fin ; a second from the muzzle above the orbit, 

 dividing in two portions, which again unite above the middle of the 

 pectoral fin, and continue straight to the posterior part of the soft 

 dorsal ; a third, the broadest, from the eye straight to the root of the 

 caudal ; a fourth, imder and parallel to the latter ; a fifth and sixth, 

 of lighter brown, from the muzzle to the posterior part of the abdo- 

 men ; a seventh, similar, from the gill-opening to the posterior part 

 of the root of the caudal fin. The margin of the dorsal black ; be- 

 tween the root of the thii-d and fourth dorsal spines a black spot ; 

 from the point of the second to the base of the eighth spine, a broad 

 oblique black band, continuing straight to the middle of the soft 

 dorsal, where it unites with the fii'st band of the body, and thus con- 

 tinues to the posterior part of the fin ; caudal orange, with scattered 

 irregular black spots ; anal and ventral greyish, posterior part black ; 

 pectorals orange, with a black band across the root, the centre, and 

 the point. (Cant.) 



Seas of Ceylon and Pinang. 



? a. Adult : skin : not good state. East Indies. 



21. Diagramma albovittatum. 



Riippell, N. W. Fische, p. 125. taf. 31. f. 2 ; Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo- 

 Nederl. i. 3Ian. en Makass. p. 46. 



B. 6. D. i|. A. ^^. L. lat. 75-80. 



The height of the body is 34 in the total length, the length of 

 the head four times. Dorsal fin nearly even, caudal sUghtly rounded. 

 Brown, with three white bands on each side : the first from the 

 vertex along the base of the spinous dorsal to the last dorsal spine ; 

 the second from above the eye to the back of the tail ; the third from 

 below the eye to the inferior side of the tail. Fins yellowish ; the soft 

 dorsal vrith two brown longitudinal bands ; the caudal fin with a 

 median band, and two oblique ones on each lobe, aU of a brown colour. 



Red Sea ; Sea of Manado. 



22. Diagramma lineatiim. 



Seha, iii. 27. 18 ; Benn. Cexjl. Fish. p. 13. f. 13. 

 Perca diagramma, L. Gin. p. 1319. 



lineata, L. Gm. p. 13l9. 



Scifena lineata, L. Mns. Ad. Frid. t. 31. f. 4. 



abu mgaterin, Forsk. p. 51. 



Grammistes lineatus, Bl. Schn. p. 186. 



Diagramma lineatum, Cuv. ^ Val. v. p. 309 ; Bleek. Amboina, iii. p. 22. 



B. 6. D. 1^. A. |. L. lat. 75. 



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

 head 4|. The fourth dorsal spine longest, about half the depth of 

 the body ; caudalis rounded ; the second anal spine longer than the 



