6. GLyPHIDODON. 43 



tin not included) ; the snout is nearly as long as the eye ; the prae- 

 orbital has a distinct notch above the maxillary, and its greatest 

 width is one-half of that of the orbit. Incisors short, small, tren- 

 chant. The seventh and eighth dorsal spines are longer than the 

 twelfth, which is generally somewhat shorter than the last ; the soft 

 dorsal elevated ; the caudal forked. Greenish-oKve, with three black 

 cross-bands, which are ill-defined, and formed by black spots on the 

 cutaneous sheaths of the transparent scales : the first from the first 

 five or six dorsal spines to the pectoral, the second from the ninth 

 and twelfth dorsal spines to the vent, and the third between the soft 

 dorsal and anal. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



a, h. Fine specimens. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank, 

 c. Adult : skeleton. Ceram. From the Collection of Madame Ida 

 Pfeitfer. 



This species does not come from the "West Indies, as stated by 

 Bloch, but from different islands of the East Indian Archipelago. 

 The species may be easily recognized from the figure given by Bloch ; 

 the name, however, which he has proposed for it must be rejected, as 

 it is derived from a wrong locality. 



2. Cross-bands lighter than the ground-colour. 



15. GlypMdodon albofasciatus. 



Hombr. ^ Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Poiss. p. 49. pi. 5. fig. 4. 



The height of the body is two-fifths of the total length (the caudal 

 fin not included) ; teeth narrow ; caudal fin emarginate. Brownish- 

 green, with three white cross -bands : the first descends obliquely 

 from the shoulder behind the pectoral to the base of the ventral ; the 

 second also is somewhat oblique and descends from before the middle 

 of the spinous dorsal fin to the vent ; the third across the middle of 

 the free portion of the tail : ventral fins whitish, with the exterior 

 margin blackish. Cheeks with some whitish dots. (H. &f J.) 



Island of Poulolant (Borneo group"). 



16. GlypMdodon xanthozona. 



Bleeker, Sumatra, ii. p. 283. 



D. j-^. A. j^3. L. lat. 28. L. transv. 3/8. 



The height ctf the body is contained twice and two-fifths in the 

 total length (the caudal fin not included) ; the width of the prae- 

 orbital, above the angle of the mouth, is one-half, or, in immature spe- 

 cimens, less than one-half of that of the orbit ; teeth very narrow, with 

 a second series of still narrower ones which are alternate with those 

 of the front series. Caudal fin emarginate. Brownish-violet, with 

 three yellow cross-bands : one across the operculum, one from the 



