804 FISHES OP INDIA. 



fourth of that of the body beneath. Caudal nearly square in the young, the outer rays 

 produced in old examples. Scales — two rows on the cheeks, none covering the lower 

 limb of the preopercle. Colours — head superiorly Indian red, extending to snout and 

 throat, becoming gradually more diluted over the belly : golden green on cheeks and 

 operoles. Eye surrounded by emerald green, passing downwards in two stripes to the upper 

 lip and chin, a second short one behind the chin : two short branches from the hind edge 

 of the orbit. Body olive green becoming paler below. Dorsal fin banded as follows from 

 summit to base, cobalt, deep vinous-red, emerald green, vinous-red and cobalt. Pectoral 

 pale orange. Ventral rosy with its outer ray blue : anal banded as follows from outer 

 edge to base, cobalt, rose, cobalt, red and cobalt. Caudal Venetian red, its upper and lower 

 edges and three vertical bands cobalt. Every scale red at its base. 

 Habitat. — Arracan to the Malay Archipelago. 



Page 413. Add Pseudoscaeus dussumieei. 



? Scarus dussumieri, Cuv. and Val. xiv, p. 252 ; Bleeker, Batav. p. 404. 



Pseudosearus dussumieri, Bleeker, Scar. 1861, p. 13, and Atl. Ich. i, p. 46, t. viii, f. 1 ; Giinther, 

 Catal. iv, p. 224. 



B. V, D. Jq., P. 15, V. 1/5, A. f, C. 13, L. 1. 26. 



Length of head Sf, of caudal fin 6| in the total length. Eyes — diameter 6|- in the 

 length of the head, and 3 diameters from the end of the snout. Teeth — small ones at the 

 comer of either jaw. Fins — dorsal spines slightly increasing in length posteriorly and not 

 so high as the rays : caudal emarginate except in the young. Scales — two rows on the 

 cheeks and two scales on the preopercular limb. Colours — cserulean blue, with the lower 

 edge of the body pale rose : the centre of every scale on the blue portion being gall-stone 

 green, as is also the upper portion of the head. Cferulean blue bands and marks are round 

 the orbit also radiating from it towards the forehead, the angle of the mouth, and 

 irregularly over the cheeks. A blue band across the upper lip and another a short distance 

 behind the lower one. Dorsal and anal fins of an orange gall-stone, having a 

 ceernlean blue basal, and a second outer band. Caudal of a similar colour with its outer 

 rays blue, and three broken vertical blue bands on its outer half. Pectoral rays as follows : 

 the upper blue, the succeeding four gall-stone orange, the remainder hyaline. Ventral 

 outer ray blue, the rest hyaline with the outer halves of the second and third rays orange 

 gall-stone. 



Habitat. — Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Arracan to the Malay Archipelago. 



Page 419. Add 2. Brotula jeedoni. 

 D. 126, V. 1, A. 95. 



Length of head 6, height of body 5f in the total length. Eyes — in figure, diameter 3^ 

 in the length of the head, and f of a diameter from the end of the snout. Fins — dorsal 

 commences over the base of the pectoral, vertical ones confluent. Colours — lilac along the 

 back becoming white beneath, a black band from the eye to the angle of the subopercle, a 

 second from above the eye passes downwards to the base of the pectoral, which fin it crosses 

 obliquely, a third black band commences on the occiput but soon divides into two, the upper 

 branch going along the base of the dorsal fin, and the lower passing down a short distance 

 and then running parallel to the first. Fins yellowish, three large round black spots edged 

 with white along the upper half of the dorsal fin, which has a dark margin, as has also 

 the anal, which, however, is externally edged with white. 



Habitat. — Taken at Madras in August, and among Sir. W. Elliot's and Jerdon's illus- 

 trations is one 5'4 inches in length. 



Page 419. 3. Beotula multibaebata. 



? Brotula multibarbata, Schlegel, Fauna Japon. Poiss. p. 251, pi. cxi, f . 2 ; Giinther, Catalog. 



iv, p. 371. 

 Oeneiates ferruginosus, Tickell, MSS. with a figure. 



D. C. and A. 165 (186), V. 2. 



Height of body 5 (4 to 4 J), length of head 51 in the total length. Upper jaw the longer. 

 The maxilla extends to below the hind edge of the eye, opercle ending in a spine. 

 Barbels — both jaws with three on either side. Fins — dorsal commences above the base 

 of the pectoral, all the vertical fins confluent. Colours — reddish or vinous burnt umber 

 becoming nearly white below. Vertical fins a little darker edged with black having an 

 outer red margin. 



Habitat. — Col. Tickell procured one 4-9 inches long at Saddle Island off Kyoukphoo 

 in Arracan in 1862, it is not so deep as shown in Sohlegel's figure : Jerdon also procured 



