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second. Ventral does not quite reach the vent. Caudal cut square, 

 with its upper ray a little prolonged. Colour reddish, with six 

 darker cross bands ; a light pinkish band along side, becoming 

 yellow along centre of caudal fin ; head spotted with dark purplish- 

 black marks above ; three well-marked vertical blue bands across 

 the sub- and interopercles, and sometimes a fourth crosses the 

 breast in front of and below the pectoral fin. Dorsal fins yellow, 

 black in their lower halves ; the soft dorsal with a single row of 

 spots along its Tipper half ; anal yellowish in its lower two thirds, 

 with five rows of round canary-coloured spots; its outer third 

 reddish ; ventrals reddish, stained at their edges. Caudal yellow 

 along the middle, dark reddish in its lower, some fine vertical bars 

 in its upper halt'. 



Hob. East coast of Africa, seas of India to Japan. 



994. (3.) Percis hexophthalma. 



Percis hexophthalma (JEhrenb.), Cuv. $ Vol. H. N. Poiss. iii, p. 271, 

 vii, p. 507 ; Day, Fish. India, p. 263, pi. Ivii, tig. 4 (see synon.). 



D. 5 | 19-21. P. 17. A. 17-18. C. 15. L. 1. 62. L. tr. 7/21. 



Length of head 4, of caudal fin 6|, height of body 6|.in the 

 total length. Eyes diameter 5 in length of head, 1 diam. from 

 end of snout, and nearly apart. Snout somewhat pointed. 

 Greatest depth of preorbital equals 1 diameter of eye. Preopercle 

 entire ; a spine at shoulder. Teeth outer row in upper jaw 

 enlarged, as are also 8 or 10 of the anterior ones in the lower jaw, 

 also four or five of the outer ones in the middle of the lateral teeth. 

 Fins fourth dorsal spine longest and equal to 1 diameter of the 

 orbit. Ventral reaches anal. Caudal cut square, having its upper 

 ray a little prolonged. Colour upper half of body and head 

 greyish brown with irregular vertical grey lines, also one or two 

 narrow and interrupted or entire lines along the side ; three or 

 more white spots, each having a black centre, along either side of 

 the abdomen. Some narrow dark lines pass obliquely backwards 

 and downwards from the eye over the sides of the head, others go 

 directly backwards. A black spot on base of first dorsal, edges of 

 fin also dark ; three rows of black spots along the dorsal, which also 

 has a dark edge, one row of spots along the anal. A large black 

 blotch on the caudal extending half its length, and having a large 

 white blotch behind it, the whole of the fin vertically barred with 

 spots. 



Hab. Eed Sea, east coast of Africa, seas of India to the 

 Malay Archipelago and beyond. 



995. (4.) Percis cylindrica. 



Scieena cylindrica, Block, Irh. t. 299, fig. 1. 



Percis cylindricm Cuv. $ Vat. H. N. Poiss. iii, p. 207 ; Cf anther, 



Catal. ii, p. 239 : Day, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 200 j Fish. India, Sujjpl. 



p. 790. 



