400 ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Length of head 3f to 4, o£ caudal 6^ to 7, height of body 3^ in the total length, ^j/es— diameter 5 in 

 the length of the head, 2 diameters from the end of snout, and li apart. J'ms— caudal truncated. Colours— 

 yellowish-brown : broad bluish oblique bands on the head, and the anterior portion of the back with bluish 

 spots. One (may be two or three) yellow spot on the back below the fourth dorsal spine, and sometimes 

 a black spot behind it. Oblique brown streaks on the dorsal fins, sometimes enclosing spaces : a black 

 axiUary spot, usually another at the upper part of the base of the caudal, on which brown spots, or vertical 

 bands, may be present or absent : anal with longitudinal bands. In yoimg specimens the dark blotch on the 

 back, just behind the anterior light one, is black : whilst below the last dorsal rays and behind the second white 

 spot on the back, a dark mark is rather well developed. 



Habitat.— Fro-m the Red Sea and east coast of Africa to the Andamans, Malay Archipelago, and 

 Polynesia. The specimen figured (8-2 inches ia length) was from the Andamans. 



7. Platyglossus kawarin. 



Julis (Ealichc&res) Jcmvarin, Bleeker, Timor, p. 172. 



Halichceres hanuarim,, Bleeker, Syn. Labr. p. 286, and Atl. loh. i, p. 121, t, 41, f. 4. 



Platyglossus hawa/rm, Giinther, Catal. iv, p. 152. 



B. vi, D. -f^, P. 14, V. 1/5, A. ^, 0. 14, L. 1. 28-29. 



Length of head 3| to 3f , of caudal 6f , height of body 3| in the total length. JSi/es— diameter 4 J in the 

 length of head, 2 diameters from the end of snout, and 1 apart. Fims — caudal sHghtly rounded. Colours— h&aA 

 with a bluish band from the eye to the snout : a second passes from the angle of the mouth along the posterior 

 edge of the orbit to the upper part of the head : a third from the interopercle : a blue blotch on the centre of 

 the opercle, and a wide light-blue band above : some blue spots on the summit of the head. Colours below the 

 lateral-line are blue, each scale having a central rosy spot, forming seven longitudinal bands. Dorsal and anal 

 fins blue, with three rows of round reddish spots, and a black spot on the last dorsal spine and first and second 

 rays : caudal yellowish, with a dark edge. 



Hahitat. — ^Andamans to the Malay Archipelago. 



8. Platyglossus nebulosus, Plate LXXXV, fig. 2. 



Julis nebulosus, Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 461. 



Julis (Ualiohmres) Beichei, Bleeker, Sumatra, i, p. 43. 



Halichceres Beichei, Bleeker, Atl. loh. i, p. 116, t. 87, f. 1. 



Platyglossus nebulosus, Giinther, Catal. iv, p. 161 ; Elunz. Yerh. z. b. Gres. Wien, 1871, p. 544. 



B. vi, D. -JL., p. 14, V. 1/5, A. ^, C. 14, L. 1. 28, L. tr. 3/12. 



Length of head 3|, of caudal 5|, height of body 3f in the total length. Eyes — diameter 4 in the length 

 of head, 1^ diameters from end of snout, and 1 apart. Fins — caudal rounded. Colours — olivaceous : several 

 violet bands on the head, one on the cheek being curved, but not completing a circle : the opercular lobe 

 violet : a dark band passing from it to the tail, in its course it gives off several superior and inferior short 

 processes, between which are silvery spots, and there are more along the base of the dorsal fin : some oblique 

 silvery streaks are covered by the pectoral fin. A minute spot sometimes present between the two first dorsal 

 spines, and a larger one between the first two rays : two or three red ocelli margined with blue between the 

 dorsal spines and oblique violet bands ascending forwards : anal with a band along its centre and ocelli at its 

 base : caudal occasionally with black dots. 



Habitat. — Red Seas and seas of India to the Malay Archipelago. Por the specimen figured, from the 

 Malay Archipelago, I am indebted to Dr. Hnbrepht of Leyden. 



9. Platyglossus scapularis, Plate LXXXV, fig. 4. 

 Julis scapula/ris, Benn. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 167. 



.*■ JuUs Ceylonensis, Benn. 1. c. 1832, p. 183. 



Halichmres eceruleovittatus, Riipp. N. W. Pische, p. 14, t. iv, f . 1 (variety) . 

 Julis eceruleovittatus, Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 466 ; Peters, Monats. Akad. Berlin, 1855, p. 454. 

 Julis eiegans, (Kuhl. and v. Hass.) Cuv. and Val, xui, p. 467: Kper, Labr. p. 12; Bleeker, Amb. and 

 Coram, p. 289. r ^ ^ , . . 



Julis Leschenandtii, Cuv. and Val. xiii, p. 453, 

 Julis phaiotmnia, Bleeker, Banda, p. 322. 



Gwntheria cceruleovittata, Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861,, p. 613, and Versl. Akad. Wet. Amst, xiii, 

 p. 291, and Atl. Ich. i, p. 137, t. 32, f. 2. ' 



Platyglossus scapularis, Giinther, Catal. iv, p. 146 ; Klunz. Verb. z. b. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 545, 

 ? Platyglossus Ceylonensis, Giinther, I.e. p. 158. 



B. vi, D. T^, P. 15, Y. 1/5, A. J_, c. 15, L. 1. 27, L. tr. 2i/10. 



Length of head 3| to 41, of caudal 8, height of body 3| to 4 in the total length. %es— diameter 4^ to 5 

 in the length of head, 2 diameters from end of snout, and IJ apart. Fins — outer ray of ventral elongated : 

 caudal rounded. Colours— a. broad red blue-edged band passes from the snout to the eye : a second irregular 

 one goes obliquely upwards from the eye to the -ynde lajteratL band, which, of a brownish violet colour, passes 



