240 PEBCIDJE. 



brown longitudinal bands ; fins yellowish ; the upper half of the 

 anterior dorsal more or less iatense black. 



Javanese and Chinese Seas ; Feojee Islands ; Coast of Mozambique. 



a. Adult female: skeleton. India. Presented by the Zoological 



Society. 

 6. Adult. Feejee Islands. Presentedby the Lords of the Admiralty. 



c. Adult. China. 



d. Half-grown. China. Presented by Capt. Sir E. Belcher. 



e. Young : very bad state. Australia. Presented by J. MacgUlivray, 



Esq. 

 /. Adult. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



Oyana nearly entirely united, above with two lobes. 



Skeleton. — The hinder half of the suborbital arch represents a closed 

 canal ; the posterior margin of the praeoperculum and the hinder part 

 of the ioferior are minutely serrated ; suprascapula, sub- and inter- 

 operculum entire. There are eleven abdominal and fourteen caudal 

 vertebrae. 



37. Apogon semilineatus. 



Temin. ^ Schleg. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 4. pi. 2, f. 3 (head of male) ; 

 Bleek. Verh. Batav. Genootsch. xx^d. p. 55. t. 1. f. 2. 



Caudalis forked. Brownish ; a black longitudinal streak from the 

 muzzle above the eye to the middle of the tail, another from the muzzle 

 through the eye to the point of the operculum. Tip of the first dorsal 

 fin black. 



Japanese Sea. 



38, Apogon chrysopomus. 

 BUeker, Celebes, v. p. 239. 



Above violet (in life beneath yellowish) ; a brown longitudinal 

 band from the forehead above the lateral line to the back of the tail ; 

 opercles pearl-coloured, with five or six red spots ; a black spot at 

 the root of the caudal fin ; fins immaculate ; the first dorsal fin 

 blackish above. Caudalis notched ; sub- and interoperculum entire ; 

 suprascapula denticulated ; the third dorsal spine longest. L. lat. 25. 

 L. trans V. '8-9, 



Sea of Macassar. 



39. Apogon kaJosoma. 

 Bleeker, Banka, p. 448. 



Reddish yellow, with two brown longitudinal bands, the upper 

 of which is curved towards the back, the lower being straight and 

 united with the former on the tail ; there are moreover about fourteen 

 serpentine brown longitudinal stripes on the back and the sides ; a 

 round black spot on the root of the caudal fin ; the first dorsal fin 

 blackish in front ; the second and the anal fin with a black band along 

 the base. L. lat. 36. L. transv. 15. Caudalis notched. 



Sea of Banka. 



