44 POMACENTRID^E. 



fourth, fifth and sixth dorsal spines to the middle of the belly, and 

 one across the tail ; fins orange-coloured ; the spinous dorsal and the 

 caudal with a bro\m margin, the soft dorsal with an oblique round 

 black spot at the base of the six last dorsal rays ; anal with an oblique 

 blue longitudinal streak. 

 East Indian Archipelago. 



a. Four and a half inches long. 



b. Half-grown. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



17. Glyphidodon oxyodon. 



Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. ill. Celebes, x. p. 14. 

 D. i^. A. r|- L. lat. 28. L. transv. 2i/9. 



12 13 *' 



The teeth of the upper jaw are slender, lanceolate, of unequal size, 

 in a single series ; some of those of the lower are lobate. The height 

 of the body is one-half of the total length (the caudal fin not included) ; 

 the snout is much shorter than the eye ; the width of the prsDorbital, 

 above the angle of the mouth, is less than one-haK of that of the 

 orbit. Caudal fin scarcely emarginate,with the lobes obtuselyrounded. 

 Blackish-violet, with three white cross-bands descending obhquely 

 forwards : the first from the origin of the spinous dorsal towards the 

 snout ; the second from the origin of the soft dorsal ; the third from 

 the back of the free portion of the tail ; another whitish streak from 

 the chin to the praeoperculum ; a very broad whitish blotch anteriorly 

 on the sides ; a whitish ocellus at the base of the eighth dorsal spine. 



Sea of Celebes. 

 a. Twenty-two lines long : not good state. From Dr. P, v, Bleeker's 

 Collection. 



B. Body more or less uniform, or bicoloured, or with small ornamental 

 markings. 



1. The height of the body is one-half, or more than one-half, of the 

 total length (the caudal fin not included.) 



18. Glyphidodon sparoides. 



Sargus annularis, var., Lacep. iv. pi. 11. fig. 1; [Qmy 8r Gaim. Voi/. 



Uran. Zool. p. 394 : cfr. Cuo. Sf Val. v. p. 469. J 

 Glyphisodon sparoides, Cuv. <Jf Val. v. p. 468 ; Peters in Wiegm. Arch. 



1855, p. 260. 



D.H. A.^. L. lat. 30. L. transv. 4/11. 



The height of the body is somewhat more than one-half of the 

 total length (the caudal fin not included) ; the scales on the upper 

 surface of the head advance to before the orbit, nearly to the extre- 

 mity of the snout. Teeth small, short, narrow ; the greatest width 

 of the pra;orbital is not quite one-half of that of the orbit. Caudal 

 fin deeply forked. Greenish-olivc!. with a large black blotch on each 

 side of the tail. 



Mauritius. Coast of Mozambique. 



(I. Aduli. Mauritius. Collected by C. Telfair, Esq. 



