FAMILY, XLI-LABRID^. 397 



SYNOPSIS OP INDIVIDUAL SPECIES. 



1. StetJwjuUs drigwenter, D. ^, A. ^, L. 1. 26-27. A brown wMte-edged band from the snont to below 

 the eye : lines and dots along the sides. A black spot on last dorsal ray, another generally at the base of the 

 caudal fin. Seas of India to the Malay Archipelago, 



1. Stethojulis* strigiventer, Plate LXXXTY, fig. 7. 



Julie gtrigwenter, Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 184 ; Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 468 ; Bleeker, Banda, i, 

 p. 251 ; Peters, Monats. Ak. Wiss. 1855, p. 434. 



HaUchceres strigiventer, Kjaer, Labr. p. 12. 



Stethojulis si/rigi/BBnter, Giinther, Annal. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1861, p. 386, and Catal. iv, p. 140 ; Bleeker, 

 Atl. Ich. i, p. 135, t. 43, f. 1 ; Kner, Novara Pische, p. 253. 



B. vi,.D. tV. P- 15, V. 1/5, A. ^, G. 14, L. 1. 26-27, L. tr. 2/9. 



Length of head 3|- to 3i, of caudal 5|, height of body 4 to 4j in the total length. Eyes — diameter 4 tO' 

 4J in the length of head. It to 2 diameters from the end of snout, and l-j- apart. Fins — ^ventral rather short, 

 caudal rounded. Colou/rs — ^light brown, becoming yellowish on the abdomen : a brown band having a white 

 lower edge passes from the snout and angle of the mouth below the eye to the opercle : several longitudinal 

 yeUow lines and some black dots along the sides, especially in the lower half of the body : a black spot on the 

 last dorsal ray, another at the base of the caudal fin, which last mark is apparently sometimes absent. 



In " the Pishes of Zanzibar" a variety is given as follows : " bright green : lower part of the sides with 

 several pale-green longitudinal lines, on which there are some black dots. A blue, brown-edged band from 

 mouth, below eye, to operculum : sometimes an oceUated spot at the end of the dorsal and on the upper part of 

 the base of the caudal." 



Habitat. — ^From East Africa through the seas of India to the Malay Archipelago and China. It is very 

 abundant at the Nicobars and Andamans, from the latter of which localities the specimen figured was obtained. 



Genus, 9 — Platzglossbs, (Klein), Ounfher. 



EaUchceros, sp. Ruppell ; JuUs, sp. Cuv. and Val. ; Macropharyngiodon, Gimtheria, and Semitautoga, 

 Bleeker ; ChcerojuUs, Gill. 



Body oblong, eom/pressed. Anterior teeth conical, bid neither bent outwa/rds nor bachwwds i a posterior 

 camme : inferior phcwyngeal teeth not confhiemt or pavement-liie. A single dorsal fin with less spines (9) than 

 rays (10-14) : anal with three spines amd about the same number of rays (11-14) as the soft dorsal. Scales rather 

 la/rge: those on the thorax smaller thorn, on the remainder of the body: none on the head (except a few rudimienta/ry 

 ones behind the eye i/n two or more species), no enlarged row at base of ca/udal fm. Lateral-line continuous. 



Geographical distribution. — Red Sea, seas of India, and generally tropical and adjacent seas. 



SYNOPSIS OP SPECIES. 



1. Platyglossus natopsis, D. -^j A. -f^, L- 1- 27-29. Two black spots on dorsal fin, the first between first 

 and second spines, the largest between third and sixth rays. Andamans to the Malay Archipelago. 



2. Platyglossus Hyrtlii, D. xa^Ts, A. ^, L. 1. 27-28. Two brownish-black longitudinal bands. 

 Andamans to the Malay Archipelago. 



3. Platyglossus ma/rgmatus, D. tz-tt, -A- t^, L- 1- 27. Undulating green streaks edged with blue on head 

 and anterior half body, and streaks on vertical fins. Red Sea, through seas of India to the Malay Archi- 

 pelago. 



4. Platyglossus Dusswmieri, D. ^, A. ■^, L. 1. 28-29. Blnish-green, scales chequered with dnU purplish 

 red. A black spot at base of pectoral. A bluish oceUns between fifth and seventh dorsal spines. East coast of 

 Africa, seas of India to, the Malay Archipelago and beyond. 



5. Platyglossus lepa/rensis, D. -j^, A. -fy, L. 1. 26-28. Brown streak from eye to snout, and a silvery band, 

 from eye to tail, with four and five more below it. Two spots on dorsal fin. Andamans to the Malay Archi- 

 pelago. 



6. Platyglossus hortalamas, D. yt-t^-, ^- 1^, L- 1- 28. Broad bluish streaks on the head, and bluish spots 

 on first part of the back. Prom one to three yellow spots on back below the base of the dorsal fin. Red Sea, 

 seas of India to the Malay Archipelago and beyond, 



• JuUs FMwysorm, Cut. and Val. xiii, p. 471, may be a StetUjuUs. The description was. made from a. drawing executed in 

 Siam by Major Finlayson. The colours are greenish. Commencing at the corner of the mouth and passingbelow the eye is a hght 

 brown lateral band covered with deeper coloured spots. The dorsal light pink, bordered wiih red, having a red spot at the base of each 

 spme and ray : the anal is figured as similar, but the basal spots are not distinct in Sir W. Elliot's figure. Caudal bluish, with three 

 oblique bands on either lobe. There is also a row of red spots between the lateral band and the back in Su- W . Elhot s hgnre. iJpder 

 surface of the head silvery, with a tinge of orange. Amongst Sir W. EEiot's drawings of fishes I found one which agrees with Major 

 Knlay son's, it is marked JmMs. ttt jo ioei tok 



Habitat-m&m (pot Ceylon) is- noted on the original drawing and Madras. See Jerdon, M. J. L. and be. 1851, p. 135. 



