54 POMACENTEID^. 



Brownish-olive, each scale with a lig-ht vertical streak ; sides of the 

 snout with two bluish lines ; dorsal fin of the same colour as the 

 back, ivitli a roundish deep-black sj^ot on tJie base of the four last 

 rays ; ventral and anal black ; pectoral ivithout axillary spot. 



Var. a. The free portion of the tail yellowish, caudal blackish. 

 a~-b. Thirty- three and twenty-three lines long. Amboyna. Pur- 

 chased of Mr. Frank. 



Var. j3. Tail and caudal bright yellow. 

 c. Thirty-one lines long. Amboyna. Purchased of llr. Frank. 



43. Glyphidodon anabatoides. 

 Bkeker, Labr. Cten, p. 28. 



^■'i- ^-iiu- L-lat. 26. L.transv.f. 

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

 fin not included). Snout as long as the eye ; the width of the prse- 

 orbital is one-third of that of the orbit ; suborbital inconspicuous. 

 Caudal fin deeply forked, with the lobes pointed. Violet, each scale 

 witK a blue dot ; a blue spot at the origin of the lateral line ; dorsal 

 greenish, blackish superiorly, dotted with blue ; anal greenish, black- 

 ish inferiorly, dotted wdth yellowish ; caudal with a brownish longi- 

 tudinal band on each lobe ; pectoral with a blackish spot superiorly ; 

 ventral greenish. 

 Coast of Java. 



(t. Fine specimen. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



44. Glyphidodon bankieri. 



Glyphisodon bankieri, Richards. Iclith. Chin, p. 253. 

 nemurus, Bleeker, Booroo, ii. p. 73. 



D-ii^- ^-^V L.lat. 26-28. 



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

 fin not included) ; the snout is shorter than the eye ; the width of 

 the infraorbital ring below the orbit is less than one-third of that 

 of the orbit ; each jaw with about foi'ty teeth, the anterior ones 

 short, distinctly compressed. The middle raj^s of the dorsal and anal 

 fiius form an angular point ; caudal deeply forked, with the lobes 

 more or less produced into filaments. Violet: tail and caudal fiik 

 orange-coloured ; the scales on the head and tail with a blue dot, 

 those on the tnink with a transverse streak ; a blue ocellus edged 

 with brown at the origin of the lateral line. Dorsal fin brownish- 

 violet, yellow posteriorly ; anal brownish-yeUow ; pectoral with a 

 large brown spot superiorly at the base. 



Coasts of China, Booroo, and Ambojma. 



a-h. Types of the species. China. Presented by Sir J. Richardson, 

 f. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. — One of the typical specimens 

 of 0. nemurus. 



