1224 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. [Nov. 



D 12/12, C 15f, A 2/12, V 1/5, P 16, Br. V. 

 Habit. — Sea of Pinang, 



South Sea, Timor, Amboina, Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, 

 Total length : 2f inch. Red Sea. 



Three individuals were observed at Pinang from 1842 to 1845. 



Gen. Glyphidodon, (Forskal.) Lacepede, 1802. 



Body compressed oval, and as well as the head covered with large 

 scales ; profile rounded ; mouth small ; teeth in the jaws in a single series, 

 close, equal, narrow, trenchant and frequently notched ; preopercle not 

 toothed ; lateral line terminating opposite the last dorsal ray. 



Glyphidodon rahti, Cuv. and Val. 



Russell, LXXXVI. Rahti Pota. 



Glyphisodon saxatilis, Riippell : Atlas, Fische, 35 ? 



Chsetodon tyrwhitti, Bennett : Ceylon, No. 25 ? 



Glyphisodon rahti, Cuv. and Val. V. 456 ; IX. 507. 



Glyphisodon rahti, Riippell : N. W. Fische, 126. 



Glyphisodon rahti, S. Muller and Schlegel : Verh. over de nat. 



Gesch. 22. 



Glyphisodon tyrwhitti? 1 Richardson : Rep . 1845j 253 , 



Glyphisodon rahti ? J 



Glyphisodon cselestinus, Cantor: Catal. Mai. Mamm. in Journ. As. 



Soc. XV. [Belphinus plumbeus.1 



Glyphisodon rahti, Bleeker : Verh. Bat. Gen. XXI. J Ged. pp. 



2, 3, 5. 



Upper part of the head and the back as far as the dorsal fin greenish- 

 or bluish-black, rest of the back and upper half of the sides greenish 

 yellow or gamboge, lower half of the sides, abdomen^ cheeks and oper- 

 cles bluish silvery, all the scales with blackish margins. In front of 

 the dorsal a vertical black band ; a second from between the sixth and 

 seventh dorsal spine ; a third from the posterior spines ; a fourth from 

 the soft dorsal fin ; a fifth in front of the caudal ; scales between the 

 dorsal spines and rays yellow or greenish, membrane blackish-blue 

 with a broad black margin ; the scaly base of caudal yellow, the rest 

 greenish- or bluish-black with a broad black posterior margin ; in 

 some a broad vertical black band behind the base, and the upper and 





