332 PBlSTirOMATID^. 



head 4| ; the diameter of the eye is about one-third of the hitter ; 

 the third and fourth dorsal spines longest, nearly one-third of the 

 height of the body. Caudalis truncated ; the second anal spine 

 scarcely longer than the third. YeUow, with ten or eleven blackish- 

 brown obHque longitudinal bands edged with blue : the first from 

 the middle of the nape to the base of the fourth dorsal spine ; the 

 second and third from above the head to the base of the spinous 

 dorsal ; the fourth, fifth and sixth from the eye to the base of the 

 soft dorsal ; the seventh from below the eye to the end of the dorsal ; 

 the eighth from below the eye to the caudal ; the ninth from the 

 mouth to the caudal ; the tenth along the belly. Dorsal fin above 

 black-edged, and with a series of round black spots. Caudal and 

 anal fins without bands, with a few large black spots ; pectoral and 

 ventral fins immaculate, above the base of the former a large san- 

 guineous spot. {El.) 

 Sea of Temate. 



26. Diagramma hsematochir. 



Sleeker in Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Indie, 1854, p. 175. 

 B. 6. D. 1?. A. |. L. lat. 80. 



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

 head 4| ; the diameter of the eye is one-fourth of the latter ; the 

 third and fourth dorsal spines longest, nearly one-third of the height 

 of the body. Caudalis tnincated. YeUowish ; the snout brownish, 

 with two white, curved cross-bands between the eyes ; on each side 

 about seventeen oblique blackish-brown bands : one along the middle 

 of the neck, eight from the head to the back, and the others from the 

 side of the belly to the back ; no bands below the eye. The vertical 

 fins black- edged ; the spinous dorsal with one series of blackish - 

 brown spots, the soft with two ; caudalis with numerous, analis with 

 scarce spots. A large sanguineous spot above the base of the pectoral 

 fin. {Bl.) 



Sea of Ternate. 



27. Diagramma polytaenia. 



Blecker, Celebes, iii. p. 755 (not Solor, p. 68). 



B. 6. D.|. A.|. L. lat. 100. 



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

 head 44- ; the diameter of the eye is 3f in the latter ; the third, 

 fourth and fifth dorsal spines longest, one-third of the height of the 

 body. Caudalis tnmcated ; the second anal spine longer than the 

 third. Yellow, with nine bluish-white longitudinal bands edged with 

 black, the fovir upper ones terminating at the base of the dorsal, the 

 four next at the caudal, the lowest near the anus. {BL) 



Sea of Macassar. (Port Essington.) 



a. ? Adult : skin: not good state. Port Essington. Presented by 

 the Earl of Derby. 



