23. c^sio. 393 



golden longitudinal band from the shoulder to the caudal ; axil and 

 tips of the caudal blackish. 



Molucca Sea. 

 a. Adult. Moluccas. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



9. Caesio argenteus. 



Bodianus argenteus, Block, vii. p. 44. taf. 231. f. 2 ; Bl. Schn. p, 332. 

 Csesio argenteus, Cuv. ^- Val. vi. p. 437. 



D. i^. A. i-. 



14 12 



The height of the body is about one-fifth of the total length. 

 Uniform sUverj-, with a black spot above the axil. 

 East Indies ? 



10. Caesio tile. 



Cuv. %■ Val. vi. p. 428 ; Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. Poiss. p. 181 ; Cuv. R^gtie 

 Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 36. f. 2. 



B. 6. D. 1^. A. ^. L. lat. 75. L. transv. 18 or 20. Ctec. pylor. 5. 



The height of the body is five times in the total length, the length 

 of the head 4i ; the diameter of the eye is about one-fourth of the 

 latter, and 1^ in the distance between the eyes. A blackish band 

 from the shoulder, continued on the upper lobe of the caudal fin ; the 

 lower lobe with a longitudinal band of the same colom\ Axil black. 

 {Cuv.) 



Archipelago of the Caroline Islands. 



11. Caesio cylindricus. (Plate XXIV. fig. B.) 

 B. 7. D. fj. A. ^. L. lat. 76. L. transv. 6/15. 



Body cylindrical ; its greatest depth is one -sixth of the total length. 

 The distance between the eyes less than the diameter of the eye. 

 The base only of the soft portions of the vertical fins scaly. Above 

 bluish, each scale of the back with a brownish margin ; a brown 

 longitudinal band from the suprascapula, continued on the upper 

 caudal lobe ; the lower lobe with a similar band ; axil deep black. 



Madagascar. 



a. Fine specimen. Madagascar. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



Description of the specimen. — The body is elongate, cylindrical, but 

 with the back not broad. The length of the head is 4| in the total ; 

 above, it is scaly to the vertical from the centre of the eye ; the 

 distance between the eyes is less than the width of the orbit, which 

 is nearly one-fourth of the length of the head ; the snout is rather 

 longer than the diameter of the eye, and scaleless, like a crescent- 

 shaped space behind the eye. The cleft of the mouth is slightly 

 oblique, and of moderate width, the upper maxiUary reaching to the 

 anterior margin of the orbit. The jaws are equal, the upper mode- 

 rately protractile, the processes of the intermaxillaries reaching to 

 above the anterior third of the eye. The teeth of the jaws are very 

 fine ; a toothless ridge across the vomer. The nostrils are distant 



