loU LABP.IDiE. 



tudinal bands : the first is united on the snout with that of the other 

 side, and proceeds above the eye, near the base of the dorsal, to the 

 back of the tail ; the second runs from the snout, through the eye, 

 to the base of the caudal, and is interrupted on the operculum hi/ a 

 bi'ight-red spot. Dorsal fin with three series of rosy ocelli edged 

 with violet, and with a violet spot between the first and third spines ; 

 anal immacalate ; caudal with rose-coloured ocelli, and tvith a black- 

 ish ocellus superiorly at the base. Pectoral with a blackish spot supe- 

 riorly at the axil. 



Pinang, Java, Mas, Celebes, and Sangi. 



a. Half-grown. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



h. Half-grown : skin. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



c. Half-grown : not good state. From Dr. P. v. Eleeker's Collection, 



Dr. Cantor has confounded two species under the name of J. mola, 

 two of his typical specimens which are in the British Museum be- 

 longing to J. hyrtelii, Block., and a third to PI. bicolor, Schn. 



14. Platyglossus knerii. 



Halichoeres knerii, Bleek. Si/n. Lahr. p. 34, and^</. Ichth. p. 119. tab. 39. 

 fig. 1. 



D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 2/9. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is con- 

 tained four times and a fourth in the total length. Brownish-oKvc 

 (in spirits), with two brown longitudinal bands on each side : the 

 upper on the back, along the base of the dorsal, confluent wdth its 

 fellow on the nape. ; the second from the eye to the upper part of 

 the base of the caudal ; an oblique brown spot between tJie third and 

 fifth dorsal rays. A black dot superiorly in the axil of the pectoral. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



a. Thirty-one lines long. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



15. Platyglossus mmiatus. 



Julis miniatus, (Kuhl ^-v. Hass.) Cuv. ^ Val. xiii. p. 460; Bleek. V'er- 

 hund. Batav. Genootuch. xxii. Bali, p. 8, and Act. Soc. So. Indo-Ne- 

 derl. i. Amboina, p. (!0. 



miniatus, pt., Bkrk. Timor, p. 171. 



Ilaliehosres miniatus, Bleck. Atl. Ichth. p. 114. tab. 41. fig. 5. 



D. L, A. ^. L. lat. 28. L. transv. 2/9. 



The height of the body is equal to the length of the head, and 

 rather less than one-f( irth of the total. Caudal rounded. Rod : most 

 of the scales along the middle of the sides with a blackish ii])oi ; six 

 blackish spots along the back ; sides of the belly with numerous 

 crescent- shaped vertical streaks ; a deep-violet spot behind tne eye; 

 a curved silvery streak from the angle of the mouth to below the 

 orbit, bont downwards over the operculum to the intcroperculum. 

 Dorsal fin with numerous oblique, undulated violet lines, descending 



