7. OSTKACION. 2G1 



0. Adult (15 inches) : skin. Ceylon, i^'rom Dr. Kelaaft's Col- 

 lection. 

 jy-r. Half-growu and young. Amboyna. Purchased of Hr. Frank, 

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

 t-ti. Young : skins. South Australia. Purchased. 

 V. Half-grown. 

 iv-A', Adult : skins. 



8. Ostracion sebae. 



Ostracion sebae, Blcek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. Bid. p. 32, tub. 6. fig. 13, 

 or Isat. Tyds. Ked. Ind. ii. p. 259, or Atl. Ichth. Ostrac. p. 41, pi. 4. 

 fig. 2. 



bombifrons, Hollard, Ann. Sc. Nat. 1857, vii. p. 168. 



Carapace foui'-ridged, without spines, forming a broad continuous 

 bridge across the back of the tail. Ridges 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 whitish 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 iLimaculate. 



Indian Ocean and archipelago. 



a-h. Adult (8 inches) : skins. Zaiizibar. From I.ieut.-Col. Play- 

 fair's CoUeetion. 



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



Collection. 



d. Adult. Amboyna. Purchased of Hr. Frank. 



e. Adult. Java. Purchased of Mr. Jararach, 



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



g. Adult : skin. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



9. Ostracion punctatus, 



Seba, iii. tab. 24. fig. 5. 



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



Ostracion poiutill^, Lacep. i. pp. 442, 445, pi. 21. tig. 1. 



punctatus, Bl. Schti. p. 501 ; Cuv. R^cpic An. ; Jenyns, Zool. 



Bcaqle, Fish. p. 158 ; Bleek. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. xi. p. 108, and Atl. 



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



p. 165. 



lentiginosus, Bl. Schn. p. 501. 



meleagris, Shaw, Zool. v. p. 428, pi. 172, and Zool. Misc. 



pi. 253. 



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

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

 without raised ridge 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-h. Adult (6| inches) : skins. Zanzibar. From Liout.-Col. Play- 

 fair's Collection. 



