OSTRACION. 



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0. Adult (15 inches) : skin. Ccjioii. From Dr. Kelaart's Col- 

 lection. 

 2J-r. Half-grown and j^ounj^. Amboj-na. Purchased of Hr. Frank. 

 s. Half-grown. Coram. Purchased of Mr. Stevens. 

 t-u. Young : sluns. South Australia. Purchased. 

 V. Half-grown. 

 iv-x. Adult : skins. 



8. Ostracion sebae. 



Ostracion sebfe, Blcck. Vcr/i. JJat. (Icit. xxiv. Bal. p. 32, tab. G. fig. 13, 

 or Nat. Ttjch. Ned. Ind. ii. p. 2-j9, or Atl. Ichfh. Ostrac. p. 41, pi. 4. 



bombifrons, Tlullard, Ann. Sc. Nat. 1857, vii. p. 108. 



Carapace four-ridgcd, without spines, forming a broad continuous 

 bridge across the back of the tail. Piidges blunt. Back convex, 

 without raised ridge in the median line. Interorbital space flat; 

 anterior profile of the snout convex. Body, sides, and tail with 

 whitish, dark-edged ocelli, more numerous than the scutes. An 

 irregular whitisli band runs along each dorsal ridge and the upper 

 part of the tail to the root of the caudal fin. An irregular whitish 

 cross band between the orbits. Head immaculate. 



Indian Ocean and archipelago. 

 a-b. Adidt (8 inches) : skins. Zanzibar. From Lieut.-Col. Play- 

 fair's Collection. 

 c. Type of the species. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. Blocker's 



Collection. 

 (1. Adult. Amboyna. Purchased of Hr. Frank. 

 e. Adult. Java. Purchased of Mr. Jamrach. 

 /. Adult. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 

 (/. Adult : skin. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



9. Ostracion pimctatus. 



Sibd, iii. tab. 24. fig. o. 



Crayracioii, sp., Klein, Pise. Miss. iii. p. 21. no. 25, tab. 1. fig. 8. 



Ostracion poiutille, Lacep. i. pp. 442, 445, pi. 21. fig. 1. 



punctatus, Bl. Schn. p. 501 ; Cm: lih/ne An. ; Jeni/ns, Zool. 



Bvaqle, Fish. p. 158 ; Bleek. Nat. Tijds. Ned. Lid. xi. p. 108, and Atl 



Ichih. Ostrac. p. 39, pi. 2. fig. 4 ; Hollard, Ann. Sc. Nat. 1857, vii. 



p. 1G5. 



lentiginosus, Bl. Schn. p. 501. 



meleagris, Shaw, Zool. v. p. 428, pi. 172, and Zuol. 3Iisc. 



pi. 253. 



Carapace four-ridgcd, without spines, forming a broad continuous 

 bridge across the back of the tail, llidges blunt. Back convex, 

 without raised lidgc in the median line. Interorbital space flat ; 

 anterior profile of the snout concave. All parts covered with very 

 numerous and small white dots, some of them confluent into undu- 

 lated lines. 



Indian Ocean and archipelago ; Pacific. 



a-b. Adult (04 inches): skins. Zanzibar. From Lieut.-Col. Play- 

 fair's Collection. 



