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belly ; a bluish streak edged with darker ascends from the ej-e, 

 obliquely upwards and backwards, to meet its fellow on the nape of 

 the neck ; base of the pectoral whitish, without black spot ; f>ase of 

 the dorsal Jin violet, two or three narrow lines aloruj its upper half; 

 caudal with three curved concentric lines and with the comers 

 brownish. 



Atlantic coasts of tropical America. 



a-f. Adult and half-grown : skins. Jamaica. From Dr. Parnell's 



Collection. 

 f/. Young. Jamaica. From Mr. Gossc's Collection. 

 h, i. Adult. Puerto Ca])oUo. Purchased of Mr. Brandt, 

 /r, I, m. Adult and half-grown. 



53. Platyglossus humeralis. 



Juli8 humeralis, Poei/, Mt;m. Cub. ii. p. 212. 



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



The height of the body is one-fifth of the total length, the length 

 of the head two-ninths. Caudal truncated. A black .spot, edged 

 with pearl-colour posteriorly, on the extremity' of the operculum. 

 A brown band runs from the snout, through the eye and the opercular 

 spot, across the bend of the lateral line to the base of the caudal; a 

 secoiui from below the aocil along the side of the belhj ; a bluish streak 

 edged with darker ascends from the eye, obliquely upwards and back- 

 wards, to meet its fellow on the nape of the neck ; base of the pec- 

 toral whitish, witliout black spot ; a black band along the middle of 

 the dorsal ; caudal with blue comers. 



Coast of Cuba. 



a. Adult. From Mr. Stoke's Collection. 



54. Platyglossus maculipinna. 

 Julia maculipinna, Miill. Sf Trosch. Hist. Barhad. p. 674. 

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



Caudal rounded. Dorsal Jin with a black spot between the fifth and 

 seventh spines, and with a band along the middle of the soft portion ; 

 a small black spot posteriorly in the axil of the dorsal ; a broad dark 

 band runs from the head to the caudal Jin, below the lateral line ; 

 sometimes a dark spot l)clow the band on the middle of the body ; a 

 blue band from the snout through the (ye to the operculum, and 

 another above it from tlie snout to the eye ; both bands are united, 

 forming a V. Three bluish bands across the nape, and three white 

 ones on the cheek. Base of the pectoral with a small black spot. 



Caribbean Sea. 



a. Half- grown. 



h-d. Adult, and half-grown : skins. West Indies. 



^.Half-grown: skin. Trinidad. Presented y J. B. Richardson, Es(j. 



