1870.] SURGEON F. DAY ON ANDAMAN-ISLAND FISHES. 687 
Scales serrated posteriorly, and holes like pin-marks all over them. 
Colours. Uniform rosy scarlet. 
Length of specimen 8 inches. 
Hab. Port Blair. 
Family SquaMiPinnEs*, 
76. CH£TODON vAGABUNDUS, Linn. Pah-noo-dah, And. 
77. CuztTovon pictus, Forsk. 
78. CH&ZTODON PLEBEJUS, Gmel. 
D.14/17. A. 4/16. L.1. 50. 
Colours. Yellow. Ocular band black, with a white edge. Ocellus 
at base of caudal black, with a white margin. 
79. CHzTopON pizosTER, CO. & V. 
This species was from the Nicobars. 
80. Heniocnus mAcrotepipotus, C.& V. Pah-no-dah, And. 
81. ScatorpHacus areus, Linn. Po-ra-dah, And. 
Cece. pylori 18. 
82. Epuippus orsis, Bl. Kol-lid-dah, And. 
Cee. pylori 4. 
83. DrepPaNE puncTatTA, Linn. Gun-na-to-dah, And. 
84. Toxores sacuLaTor, Pall. Chdé-ra-wud-dah, And. 
One specimen was 9 inches in length. 
Family TrvTHipa. 
85. Truruis virgata, C.& V. Tah-meer-dah, And. 
D139 /10. PU ae, A, 7/900% Iz. 
Colours. Upper two-thirds of body coppery yellow, covered with 
* I obtained some specimens at Madras, 14, inch long, of a fish which appears 
to me to belong to the genus termed Tholichthys by Dr. Ginther, but which 
seems to be the young form of a genus of this family. I have placed one, how- 
ever, in the British Museum as 7! osseus. 
D. 12/25. P.15. V.1/5. A.3/19. C.17. L.1. 41. 
Length of head nearly 3, of caudal 3, height of body } of the total length. 
Eyes. Diameter 4 of length of head, 1 diameter apart. : 
Mouth small. Suprascapular considerably dilated; preopercular angle en- 
larged, reaching to the ventral fin. Suborbital ring enlarged, descending as low 
as the gill-opening, and its lower edge with five denticulations. 
Lateral line ceases opposite to the middle of the soft dorsal. 
Scales ctenoid, none on the head. 
Fins. Dorsal notched, third spine the longest. Second anal spine longest and 
strongest. Ventrals rounded. Caudal cut square. 
IT cannot resist considering this to be one of the Sguamipinnes, probably a 
young Chetodon or Holocanthus, and, I believe, a Tholichthys of a more adult 
age than Dr. Giinther’s types. 
