1. AMPHIPEION. 3 



the operculum and suboperculum being very long. Teeth in a single 

 series, small, conical. Dorsal fin with nine to eleven spines, anal 

 with two. Scales rather small ; the lateral line ceases below the end 

 of the dorsal fin. Branchiostegals five ; gills three and a half ; pseudo- 

 branchiae present ; an air-bladder. Pyloric appendages two or three. 

 All the Indian seas. Western parts of the Pacific. 



Synojisis of the Species, 



a. Three or two white cross-bands, that below the dorsal fin being pro- 



duced backwards along the upper part of the soft dorsal. 



1. A. bifasciatus. 3. A. trifasciatus. 



2. A. iutermedius. 4. A. sebse. 



b. Three white cross-bands, the middle of which is not bent backwards 



above. 



6. A. clarkii. 8. A. fusciventer. 



6. A. xanthm'us. 9. A. percula. 



7. A. chrysogaster. 



r. Two white cross-bauds, the posterior not bent backwards above. 

 10. A. bicinctus. ll. A, cbrysopteriis. 



d. A single cross-baud. 



12. A. nielanopus. 14. A. roseubergii. 



13. A. tricolor 15. A. perideraion. 

 (A. frenatus, Brev.). 



e. No cross-band. 



16. A. akallopisus. 17, A. ephippium. 



1. Amphiprion bifasciatus. 



Percis, sp., Kolreut. N. Comm. Petrop. x. p. 340. tab. 8. fig. 4. 



? Sciaena, sp., Gronov. Mus. Ichth. p. 38. 



? Coracinus, sp., Gronov. Zoophi/l. no. 227. 



Anthias bifasciatus, Bl. tab. 316. fig. 2. 



Amphiprion bifasciatus, Bl Schti. p. 204 ; Cuv, 8f Val. v. p. 392 ; Schlcg. 



Ovei-z. Amphipr. ^c. in Verh. Ned. Ovet-z, Bezitt. p. 18 ; Bleek. Amb. 



Sf Cer. p. 282. 

 Holocentrus bifasciatus. Bl. Schn. p. 567. 

 Lutjanus jourdin, Lacep. iv. pp. 191, 235. 

 Amphiprion laticlavius, Cuv. ($• Val. v. p. 296. pi. 132. fiof. 1, 

 ? Coracmus vittatus, Gronov. St/si. ed. Gray, p. 57. 



D-i^s- ^TiTs- L. lac. 50-55. L. transv. ^-g-^. 



Brownish-black, with two broad white cross-bands : the anterior 

 from the nape of the neck to the interoperculum, touching the poste- 

 rior margin of the orbit ; the posterior spanning from between the 

 two or three last dorsal spines to the eighth soft ray, and produced 

 superiorly towards the posterior upper angle of the soft dorsal fin. 

 Caudal fin black, with a broad white upper and lower margin. The 

 dorsal spines are stout and short, the fourth being the longest, whilst 

 the posterior ones decrease in length. The height of the body is 



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