54 SQXTA.AIIPINNES. 



Dorsal tin slightly jwinted. Brown : a bluish line from the neck 

 round the eye towards the mouth, emitting three other lines to the 

 margin of the interoperculum ; a vertical Une on the operculum, ex- 

 tending before the pectoral to the base of the ventral ; a third on the 

 chest ; body with six whitish curved lines, alternately broader and 

 narrower, extending over the dorsal and anal ; there are several 

 other indistinct lines in the intcrspaqes between those described ; 

 caudal yellow, with a fine black marginal line. (Cuv.) 



Hah. ? 



33. Holacanthus caBmleus. 



Holacanthus ca^mleus, (Ehrenbg.) Cuv. 8f Val. vii. p. 194. 

 D. i^. A.^. 



15 15 



Blue, with curved white transverse lines, alternately broader and 

 narrower; caudal yellow ; dorsal and anal fins rounded. {Cuv.) 

 Eed Sea. 



C. Body without bands 



34. Holacanthus mesoleucus. 



Renard, i. 22, 121 ; Valent. iii. p. 361. f. 48. 



Ohsetodon mesoleucus, Bl. tab. 216. f. 2 ; Bl. Schn. p. 227. 



mesomelas, Gm. i. p. 1263. 



Holacanthus mesoleucus, Lacep. iv. pp. 528, 537; Cuv. 4" ^(^l- vii. 



p. 170 ; Bleek. Verh. Batav. Genootsch. xxiii. Cliatod. p. 26. 

 Chaetodon atratus, Groiwv. Si/st. ed. Gray, p. 72. 



D.l^. A. -i. 



17 17 



Scales small. The praeopercular spine not grooved, reaching to the 

 vertical from the posterior margin of the operculum ; dorsal and anal 

 fins roimded posteriorly. Head vnih. the anterior part of the body 

 y'ellow, which colour passes gradually into brown ; a broad brown 

 ocular band from the neck, across the chest ; the brown part of the 

 body finely reticulated with white ; caudal white. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



a. Fine specimen. Macassar. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 h. Adult : bad state. Moluccas. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

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



35. Holacanthus chrysocephaluA. 



BUeker, Java, ii. p. 428. 



Scales small. The praeopercular spine is about as long as the eye, 



