31. NOVACUIA. 177 



confluent with those of the other side ; a white, brown-edged band 

 across the chest ; sides of the body with oblique brown stripes besides 

 the spots. (Bl.) 



Amboyna and Bali. 



a. Two and three-quarter inches long : not good state. From Dr. 

 P. V. Bleeker's Collection. 



E. Cheek scaly; the two anterior dorsal spines form a more or less 

 separate division. 



21. Novacula pentadactyla. 



Valent. figs. 67, 123, 292 ; Iteiiard, i. fig. 84, ii. figs. 6, 112 ; Mu^sc/t, 



tab. 20. fig. 8. 

 Blennius, sp., Ankarkrona, Act. Holm. i. 1740, p. 451. pi. 3. fig. 2. 

 Coryphsena pentadactyla, L. Syst. i. p. 447 ; Bl. taf. 173 ; Bl. ScJm. 



p. 294. 

 Hemipteronotus quinque-maculatus, Lacep. iii. p. 215. 

 Novacula pentadactyla, Cuv. iSf Val. xiv. p. 69. pi. 395 ; Bleek. Celeb. 



i. p. 222. 



sexmaculata, Cuv. 8f Val. xiv. p. 72. 



Hemipteronotus pentadactylus, Bleek. Ail. Ichth. p. . tab. 30. fig. 4. 



D. 2 j ^. A. l^. L. lat. 28. L. transv. 2/10. 



Cheeks scaly ; the two first dorsal spines are flexible, produced, 

 and entirely separate from the remainder of the fin. The outer 

 ventral ray is slightly produced. Greenish : a series of five or six or 

 less round red (in spirits, white) spots behind the eye and on the 

 origin of the lateral line ; a blackish blotch on the side of the body ; 

 dorsal and anal with a red streak along the margin and the base, the 

 former with reticulated spots, the latter with two sti'ipes of the same 

 colour. 



East Indian Archipelago. China. 



a. Fine specimen. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



6. Adult. China. Presented by Vice -Admiral Sir E. Belcher, C.B. 



22. Novacula punctulata. 

 Cue. 8r Val. xiv. p. 73. 



D. 2 I ^. A. ^. L. lat. 2(i. 



Cheeks scaly ; the two first dorsal spines are flexible, produced, 

 remote from, but subcontinuous with, the remainder of the fin ; the 

 outer ventral ray is slightly produced. Greenish, each scale with a 

 bluish vertical streak and with a white (during life, red) dot at the 

 base ; a large black blotch on the side, behind the extremity of the 

 pectoral ; a yeUow blotch below the black one. No spot behind the eye. 



China. 



a. Adult. Old Collection. 

 h. Half-grown. China. 



Bleeker also describes a, Novacula punctvZata (Celebes, iv. p. 170), 



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