242 PEECID^. 



k, I. Adult : skin. Australia. Voyage of H.M.S. Fly. 



m. Adult : stuffed. Australia. From Mr. Warwick's Collection. 



n. Half-grown. East Indies. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



43. Apogon cyanosoma. 

 Bleeker, Solor, p. 71. 



Blue (in life), with six golden longitudinal bands ; fins red, imma- 

 culate. Caudaiis slightly notched ; the upper maxUlary bone reaching 

 to behind the middle of the eye ; prseoperculura with the posterior 

 and inferior edges denticulated ; sub- and interoperculum entire. 

 L. lat. 23. L. transY. 8. 



Sea of Lawajong (Solor) 



44. Apogon cyanotaenia. 

 Bleeker, Solor, p. 71. 



Eose-coloured (in life) ; back with four or five brown longitudinal 

 stripes ; sides with two orange-coloured bands ; head with blue longi- 

 tudinal streaks ; fins immaculate, a black spot at the root of the caudal 

 fin. CaudaHs notched ; the upper maxillary bone reaching to behind 

 the middle of the eye ; pneopcrculum with denticulated inferior and 

 posterior margins; sub- and interoperculum entire. L. lat. 25. 

 L. transv. 8-9. 



Sea of Lawajong (Solor). 



45. Apogon multitseniatus. 



Bleeker, Perc. p. 28 (? Cuv. ^ Val. ii. p. 159). 



Caudaiis notched ; purple-coloured (in life), with 10-13 brown 

 longitudinal streaks on each side ; fins not spotted. 

 Bima (Sumbava Island). 



46. Apogon hartzfeldii. 

 Bleeker, Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Indie, iii. 1852, p. 254, and vi. p. 482. 



Caudaiis slightly notched. Rose-coloured (in life) ; a large round 

 black blotch on the base of the caudal fin ; on each side of the back, 

 near the dorsal hne, a light-blue longitudinal band ; the second dorsal 

 fin and the analis with a brown band along the base. 



Sea of Amboyna. 



a. Adult. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



47. Apogon chrysotaenia. 

 Bleeker, Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Indie, 1851, p. 108. 



L. lat. 25. L. transv. 9. The third dorsal spine longest. Cau- 

 dahs notched. Greyish brown, with two deep olive longitudinal bands 

 on the back and three golden ones on the side. The spinous dorsal 

 fin violet, the others red. {Bleeker.) 



Batavia. 



