28. PLATYGLOSSUS. 161 



a third in the total length ; snout pointed ; cleft of the mouth nar- 

 row. Body with three very broad, rather irregular brown cross- 

 bands, the middle of which extends over the dorsal fin, between the 

 fifth spine and the fifth ray ; a large yellow ring between the eighth 

 spine and the fifth ray of the dorsal fin ; caudal yeUow. (Bl.) 

 Coasts of Java, Celebes, Goram, Timor, and New Guinea. 



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

 Collection. 



42. Platyglossus tenuispinis, 



D. -?-. A. ^^. L. lat. 29. L. transv. 2/9. 

 ia-13 12 ' 



The height of the body equals the length of the head and is two- 

 ninths of the total. A posterior canine tooth. Dorsal spines slender, 

 flexible, as long as the rays ; caudal rounded ; ventral not produced, 

 a little shorter than the pectoral. Colours in spirits : uniform red- 

 dish-olive ; fins whitish ; a large black blotch between the first and 

 third dorsal spines ; a black spot superiorly in the axU. 



Seas of China. 



a, h, c. Sixty-two lines long. 



43. Platyglossus semicinctus. 

 Julis semicinctus, Ayres, Proc. Califs Acad. 1859, p. 32. 



^- IT- ^' Ti- 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is not 

 quite one-fourth of the total. Dark greenish-oHve, with a broad 

 black band arising on the side, at about the middle of the body in 

 height, and passing down to join, on the abdomen, the corresponding 

 band from the opposite side : this band is overlaid by the pectoral 

 fin. Dorsal and anal fins dusky. Caudal with numerous, nan-ow, 

 vertical, waving darker and lighter streaks. (Ayres.) 



Cerros Island (coast of Lower California). 



44. Platyglossus cyanostigma. 



Julis cyanostigma, Cuv. ^ Val. xiii. p. 391. 



patatus, pt. (deux autres, long de treize pouces, &c.), Cm. 8f Val. 



xiii. p. 399. 



D.^. A.^. L. lat. 28. L. transv. g." 



The height of the body is contained three times and a half in the 

 total length, the length of the head four times. Caudal truncated. 

 Eeddish-olive (in spirits), each scale on the tail and along the lateral 

 line with a blue spot ; two indistinct light bands along the body ; 

 head with irregular blue lines, several of which ascend towards the 

 nape of the neck. A black ^pot superiorly in the axil of the pectoral. 

 Back with three blackish blotches ; the middle is the darkest, and 



