28. I'LATYGLOSSUS. 153 



20. Platyglossus trimaculatus. 



Julis trimaculata, Quotf <^ Gaun. Voi/. .Lstrol. Zool. ii. p. 705. pi. 20. 



fig. 2 1 Cuv. Sf Val. x'iii. p. 452 (not p. 380). 



spilurus, Bk'ek. liunda, i. p. 252. 



Giiutheria trimaculata, Bleck. Synon. Labr. in Versl. Akad. Wet. Am- 



sterd. xiii. p. 291, and Atl. Ichth. p. 138. tab. 32. fig. 1. 



D. ^. A. A. L. lat. 29. L. transv. |. Vert. 10/15. 



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

 rather more than one-fourth of the total. Caudal truncated. Head 

 with a broad bluish band from the snout, belqw the eye, bent down- 

 wards across the operculum and subopereulum ; several other oblong 

 spots above this band ; a crescent on the interopei-culum and the 

 margin of the subopereulum bluish ; an obljciue white sti'Qak from the 

 axil to the belly. Each scale with a blui.sh vertical streak ; a dark- 

 brown spot near the root of the caudal, above the lateral line; sometimes 

 one or two other brown sjjots on the side of the bodij. Dorsal with 

 three, anal with two longitudinal lines, which arc whitish in spirits ; 

 a small black spot superiorly in the axil. 



Sea of Vanicolo. East liidian Archipelago. 



a, b-e, d-g. From the Haslar Collection. 

 h. Skeleton. 



21. Platyglossus binotopsis. 



ITalichoeres binotopsis, Bleck. in Vrrhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxii. Bali, 

 p. 7; Timor, p. 170, and Atl. Ichth. p. 120. tab. 40. fig. 4. 



D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 25. 



The height of the body is two-ninths of the total length, thelengtli 

 of the head one-fourth. Caudal fin rounded. Back reticulated with 

 blackish-violet and brownish, and with four or five darker cross- 

 bands ; head with undulated reddish-violet streaks ; tail superiorly 

 at the base of the caudal with a black, red-edged spot; dorsal wi^i 

 numerous red ocelli, and with two black, red-edged spots, one between 

 the first and second spines, the other between the first and third 

 rays ; anal with yellow ocelli ; caudal orange-coloured ; a violet streak 

 across the base of the pectoral. 



East Indian Archipelago, 



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



22. Platyglossus hcevenii. 



Ilalichoeres hcevenii, Bleek. Banda, i. p. 250. 



Platyglossus hcevenii, pt, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. p. 111. tab. 42. fig. 3. 



D. ^. A. f-^. L. lat. 28. 



The height of the body is one-fourth of the total length, and 

 nearly equal to the length of the head. Caudal rounded. Brownish : 

 head and bodij with eight or nine carmine-red longitudinal bands ; 

 snout yellow ; a bluish spot behind the orbit ; fins red, dorsal and 



