28. PLATTGL0S8US. 159 



fourth of the total. Caudal truncated. Violet, each scale with a green 

 crescent; head with hlue streaks and B^jots. Vertical fins greenish, 

 with numerous ocelli ; a blackish spot at the base between the two first 

 dorsal spines. Pectoral ivithout a clarTc band across the base, 



Sumatra and BaU. 

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



37. Platyglossus kallochroma. 



Julis kallochroma, lileek, Sumatra, ii. p. 289. 



Platyglossus kallochroma, Bleek. Syn. Labr. p. 11, and Atllchth.^. 108. 

 tab. 42. fig. 4. 



D. f^. A. ^. L. lat. 26. 



The height of the hody is a little less than one-fourth of the total 

 length the length of the head two-ninths. Caudai fin rounded. 

 Head reddish-violet, with blue bands and spots ; bodii red, with about 

 ten violet, blue-edged stripes ; vertical fins brownish-nolet, with 

 numerous small blue spots : dorsal and anal edged with yellow and 

 blue ; anal with two yeUow, blue-edged bands besides, one along the 

 base, and the other along the middle ; angles of the caudal yelloiv, 

 the yellow part being edged with blue interiorly. Pectoral red, with 

 a violet streak across the base, 



Sumatra, Nias. 



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



38. Platyglossus vrolikii. 



Julis vrolikii, Bleek, Batoe, p. 323. 



Platyglossus vrolikii, Bleek. Syn, Labr. p. 12, and Atl. Ichth. p. 110. 

 tab. 42. fig. 2. 



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



The height of the body is contained four times or four times and 

 a quarter in the total length, the length of the head four times and 

 a half. Caudal rounded ; the first ventral ray produced. Head yel- 

 low, with reddish-violet bands edged with darker: one from the 

 snout to the eye, a second curved from below the eye to the suboper- 

 culum, two parallel ones behind the eye united by a transverse spot, 

 a fourth on the snout and forehead, and a fifth transverse one on 

 the membrane of the operculum. Anterior portion of the back with 

 six to eight reddish-violet longitudinal bands, formed by confluent 

 spots; posterior part of the back with four yellow cross-bars edged 

 with violet, and scarcely extending below the lateral line ; each scale 

 on the sides with a violet transverse spot ; dorsal fin with three series 

 of red, blue-edged ocelli and with a blue intramarginal line ; anal 

 with two or three undulated red, blue-edged bands and with a blue 

 intramarginal line ; caudal with similar ocelli as the dorsal ; p^c- 

 toral with a black spot superiorly it the base ; a black ocellus supe- 

 riorly at the root of the caudal fin. 



Batu, Nias, Banka. 



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



