224 SCLEBODERMI. 



examples. Ventral spine moveable. Sides blackish, with two pairs 

 of oblique whitish or yellowish bands, descending from the middle of 

 the side to the anal fin. A broad black cross band between the eyes, 

 sometimes transversely divided by bluish bands. Three blue vertical 

 lines from the 65-6 to the root of the pectoral. Base of the caudal 

 spines black. A brownish or dull orange band, inferiorly lined 

 with blue, runs from the angle of the mouth to the pectoral. Fins 

 immaculate. 



From the West Coast of Africa to the Pacific. 



a. Adult (10 inches long). Isle of France. 



h. Half-grown : dried. Island of Johanna. Presented by Dr. 

 Kirk. 



(•-'/. Adult and half-grown : skins. Zanzibar. From Lieut. -Col. 

 Playfair's CoUcctioii. 



e,f. Adult and half-grown. Zanzibar. From Lieut. -Col. Playfair's 

 Collection. 



'•/. Very young. West Coast of Africa. 



h. Adult. Moluccas. 



i. Adult. Amboyna. Purchased of Hr. Frank. 



Ic, 1, m-p. Adult and young. China Seas. 



ry-.s. Adult and half-grown. Pacific. From the Haslar Collection. 



t. Adult : stuffed. Feejee Islands. 



H. Adult. Micronesia. Purchased of Mr. Wright. 



V. Adidt : skeleton. Seychelles. From Prof. E. P. Wright's Col- 

 lection. 



V}. Adult : slvPleton. ^Mauritius. 



19. Balistes assasi. 



Ralistes assasi, Fori^k. De.'fcr. An. p. 75 ; G)n. L. i. p. 1471 ; Biipp. 



K. W. Fisch. p. r,?, ; Hollard, Ann. Sc. Nat. 1854. i. p. 331. 

 aculeatus, Riipp. Atl. p. 27, taf. 7. fig. 1. 



D. 3 I 2o. A. 22. L. lat. 40. 



Tail with three narrow bands of recurved spines. Twenty-three 

 scales in a transverse series running from the origin of the dorsal fin 

 to the vent. A patch of enlarged osseous plates behind the gill- 

 opening. Dorsal and anal fins rather low, with rounded profile ; 

 caudal fin convex or subtruncated. Ventral spine moveable. A 

 nai'row brown streak runs from the angle of the mouth to the root 

 of the pectoral fin. Four blue cross bands between the eyes, alter- 

 nating with three black. A black vertical band descends from the 

 eye to the pectoral fin ; it is accompanied by a yellow band in front, 

 and both arc separated from each other and edged with blue. A 

 large ovate white patch on each side of the tail, traversed by the 

 black bands of spines. 



lied Sea. 

 it, b, c-e Adult and half-gruwn. Red Sea. 

 f. Adult : stuff'ed. Red Sea. 



