4. UOLVCANTIUS. 4y 



1 7. Holacanthus sexstriatus, 



Hnlacaiithu3 sexstriatus, (Kn/d ■^•v. Ilass.) Cin . 4' ^'<>l- \ii- P' 1^^4 : 



Blceli. Verhand. Batav. Gcnoutsoh. xxiii. C'hfstod. p. 2"). 

 Ch.ietodon vortioosus, Gronov. 'S'l/st. nl. Gray, p. 74. 



^•rS-9- A-fs- J^-lat. 48. L. transv. 7/2.). 



The pryeoperciilar spine Is smooth, and reaches to the ])ase of the 

 pectoral ; the dorsal and anal fins are not produced. Head and ven- 

 tral fins brown, the former with a white vertical band, d(\scending 

 from the nape of the neck, between the eye and the pneopercular 

 margin, to the spine. Body with six brown vertical bands ; each scale 

 of the body with th(^ centre dnrko-, 



Molucca Sea. 



(t, h. Adult. From the Haslar Collection. 



c. Adult: stufted. Old Collection. 



d. Adult: skin. From Gronov's Collection. 



] 8. Holacanthus navarchus. 



Renard, i. pi. 16. f. 92, ii. pi. 4. f. 17 ; Valent. ill. p. 364. no. 58, p. 367. 



no. 64 ; Ruysch, Thcafr.Anim. i. Pisc.Amh. pp. 29, 30. t. 15. f. 10, 11. 

 Holacanthus navarclius, Cnv. <y J'c//. \ii. p. 171 ; B/ec/c. Banda, iii. 



p. 100. 



D. j|. A. ^. L. lat. 50. L. transv. G/2;j. 



The praeopercular .spine is grooved, and reach(>s beyond the\('rtical 

 from the posterior margin of the o])erculum ; the dorsal and anal 

 fins are rounded posteriorly. A bluish streak from the forehead, 

 below the eye and the rool of the pectoral, to the belly, another from 

 the fifth dorsal spine to behind the pectoral ; the space between these 

 two streaks bluish-black : the tail, between the posterior half of the 

 soft dorsal and between the anal, and the latter fin black, dotted and 

 margined with blue ; the remainder of the body yellow, each scale 

 with a black spot in the centre ; pectoral und ventral black ; dorsal 

 and caudal yellow, edged with black. 



Seas of Amboyna and Kanda. 



u, b. Fine specimens. Amboyna. Purchnsed of Mr. Frank. 

 D. Body unitbnn or bicoloured, or nn-rcly spntled. 



19. Holacanthus tricolor. 



Edwards, pi. 28.''. f. 4 ; Duhami'l, Peches, ii. sect. 4. pi. J."!, f. 1 ; Parra, 



pi. 7. f. 2. 

 Chfetodon tricolor, Bluch, taf. 425 ; Bl. Schn. p. 219. 

 Holacanthus tricolor, Lac^p. iv. pp. 525, 5-30 ; Chn\ Sf Vol. vii. p. 162 ; 



Cin\ R'egne Ain'm. III. Poiss. pi. 41. f. 3. 



D. ji. A.-^. L. lat. 48. L. transv. 8/25. Ctec. pylor. 2:5. 

 Vert. 24. 

 The proeopercular spiiu^ is grooved, and reaches to the veitical 



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