1870.) SURGEON F. DAY ON ANDAMAN-ISLAND FISHES. 697 
yes. Diameter ¢ of length of head, 14 diameter from end of 
snout, 1 diameter apart. 
Teeth in a single row; no posterior canines. 
Fins. Posterior dorsal spines the longest. Caudal cut square. 
Scales. About three rows of very small ones on the cheeks, and a 
few on the upper part of the opercles. 
Colours. All that portion of the body behind a line from the com- 
mencement of the dorsal to the base of the anal dark violet, some of 
the lower scales being blue-spotted ; anterior to this nearly white 
below, but darker along the top of the head, whilst most of the 
scales have more or less dark spots. 
Length nearly 4 inches in the single specimen obtained. 
175. EprpuLus sTRiaTus, sp. nov. 
Dogo. Eola vation A. tise abel. 1, ir. 2/7. 
Length of head above ?, of caudal 2, height of body 2 of the 
total length. 
Lyes. Diameter ? of length of head, 1 diameter from end of snout 
and apart. 
The extremity of the lower jaw reaches to opposite the posterior 
margin of the orbit, and the posterior process of the intermaxillary 
to opposite the last third of the orbit. 
Fins not elongated. 
Lateral line interrupted opposite the middle of the soft dorsal. 
Colours. A white line between the orbits, and two more on the 
head, the first of which runs from the eye to the snout ; the second 
descending from the orbit meets with the one from the opposite 
side. Body greenish brown, with five narrow milk-white vertical 
bands: the first runs from the opercles to before the ventral fin; 
the second from the second dorsal spine to the end of the ventral 
fin; the third from the centre of the dorsal spines to the base of the 
anal; the fourth from the end of the dorsal fin to the end of the 
anal; and the fifth round the base of the caudal. Soft dorsal and 
termination of anal white. 
Length of single specimen 1,5, inch, 
176. HemigyMNuS MELANOPTERUS, BI. 
The coloration of the caudal fin was darker in the Andamanese 
specimens than shown in Bleeker, and the scales were dotted with 
blue. 
177. STETHOSULIS STRIGIVENTER, Bennett. 
178. PLaryGLossus scaruLaris, Bennett. 
179. PLatyGLossus LEPARENSIs, Blkr. 
Andamans and Nicobars. 
180. PLaryGuossus notopsis, K. & y. H. 
