40 POMAC£NTRIDJE, 



8. Gljrphidodon schlegelii. 

 Bleeker, Ternate, p. 138. 



D. j-^. A. l^. L. lat. 26. L. transv. 2/10. 



The height of the body is contained once and three-fourths in the 

 total length (without caudal). The snout is much shorter than the 

 eye ; the praeorbital, above the angle of the mouth, is one-half of the 

 width of the eye. Teeth small, about 56 in the upper jaw. Caudal 

 fin deeply forked. Greenish, with five or six brown cross-bands 

 which are close together, the first across the operculum, the second 

 to the pectoral, the third to the ventral, the fourth and fifth to the 

 anal, the sixth on the tail. 



Coasts of Celebes, Ternate, and Goram. 



o. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



9. Gljrphidodon septemfasciatus. 

 Cuv, <^ Vol. V. p. 463 ; Sleek. Sumatra, i. p. 582. 

 D. J|. A. fg. L. lat. 30. L. transv 3/11. Vert. 12/14. 



The height of the body is a little more than one-half of the total 

 length (the caudal fin not included); the interorbital space is as 

 wide as the orbit, and the scales on it do not advance quite as far as 

 the front margin of the eye. The breadth of the infraorbital ring 

 below the centre of the orbit is somewhat more than one-half of the 

 greatest breadth of the preeorbital. The upper jaw with eight in- 

 cisors in front, which are more or less emarginate and broader than 

 the lateral teeth. The soft dorsal is somewhat produced, the third, 

 fourth and fifth rays being the longest. Caudal fin forked. A more 

 or less distinct eyehd covers the upper anterior part of the eye. Body 

 with seven brownish cross-bands, which are broader than the inter- 

 spaces of the ground-colour between them : the first rather indistinct, 

 from the occiput to the praeoperculum ; the second from the nape of 

 the neck and from the first dorsal spine to the base of the pectoral, 

 which has a black spot superiorly at the base ; the third to sixth from 

 the dorsal fin ; the seventh across the tail, immediately behind the 

 dorsal and anal fins. 



From Mauritius to the Philippine Islands and to the coasts of 

 China. 



a-b,c. Adult. China. Presented by Vice- Admiral Sir E.Belcher,C.B. 



d. Philippine Islands. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 



e. Skin. Ceylon. From Dr. Kelaart's Collection. 



/. Adult : skeleton. China. Presented by Vice- Admiral Sir E. Bel- 

 cher, C.B. 

 SJceleton. — In no other species of this genus and the genera allied 

 to it have I so distinctly observed a certain peculiarity of the man- 

 dible as in Gl. septemfasciatus. The suture between the dentary and 

 articulary bones is so loose, that the former is quite moveable, as if 

 a joint existed between them. 



