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BEAU IFUL PLECTROPOMA. 



Plectropoma puella Cuv. et VAL. 

 PLATE XXII. 



6e plectropome demoiselle, Cuv. et Valen. Hist Nat. 

 aes Poissons, ii. p. 405. 



D. 10.16; A. &7; C. 17; P. 13; V. 1.5. 



THIS is a beautifully marked little fish of about 

 four or five inches in length, and has been found 

 in the vicinity of Martinique. The ground tint 

 of the body is olive, crossed by six bands of 

 violet black the third, in the centre of the body, 

 is very broad and conspicuous, and is immediately 

 followed by one of narrow dimensions. A line of 

 blue surrounds the orbit, and passes immediately 

 before the first black band. Three others, of the 

 same colour, cross the opercle, and extend upon 

 the breast before the pectoral fins, and there is 

 another line on the forehead between the eyes. 

 The fins are tinted with olive and yellow the 

 pectorals sometimes with a delicate rose colour. 



Other two species of this division only are 



known, the one also from Martinique, the other 



from Java ; and from these we pass to another 



genus peculiar to the seas of India, named Diacope,* 



* A/x0<ni, division, slit. 



