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middle of soft dorsal, both the latter descending to below the lateral 

 line. A light band over nape, and two narrow blue bands from 

 one orbit to the other. A light blue line along suborbital ring of 

 bones, spots on scales covering cheeks, and at bases of dorsal and 

 anal. Dorsal and caudal with a narrow dark edge, anal with a 

 broad dark outer margin, having one or two narrow blue lines 

 along its base. 



Hob. Andamans to the Malay Archipelago and beyond. At the 

 Andamans the species is not uncommon. 



1228. (3.) Pomacentrus bifasciatus. 



Pomacentrus bifasciatus, Bleeker, Batavia Nat. Tijdsch. vi, p. 330 ; 

 Day, Fish. India, p. 383 (see synou.). 



D. 13/14. P. 17. A. 2/13-14. C. 17. L. 1. (25) 28. L. tr. 3/9. 



Length of head 4, height of body 2| in the total length. Et/es 

 diameter 2| in length of head, diam. from end of snout, and 1 

 apart. Preorbital and suborbital bones entire. Greatest depth of 

 preorbital not equal to ^ diameter of eye. Colour yellow, a 

 curved blue line on preorbital ; a black band from nape over 

 opercles, and a second from last dorsal spines to below lateral line. 

 Fins yellow. 



Hah. Andamans and Malay Archipelago. 



1229. (4.) Pomacentrus sindensis. 



Glvphidodon sindensis, Day, Sea-Jishes of India and Burma, 1873, 



p. cclxiii ; Fish. India, p. 388, pi. Ixxxii, fig. 2. 

 Pomacentrus sindensis, Day, Fish. India, p. 748. 



D. 13/11-12. P. 19. A. 2/11-13. C. 15. L. 1. 26. L. tr. 3|/10. 



Length of head 3| to 4, height of body 2| to 3 in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 3 in length of head, | diam. from end of 

 snout, and 1 apart. Preorbital where widest not g diameter of 

 eye in depth, suborbital ring of bones narrow. Teeth in a narrow 

 row, about 50 in upper jaw, their summits notched. Fins dorsal 

 spines increasing to fourth, all behind that about equal ; soft dorsal 

 rather produced in centre ; caudal forked, upper lobe the longer, 

 and occasionally produced, more especially in the young ; soft 

 dorsal and anal scaled. Colour deep violet, extending on to dorsal 

 and anal fins ; pectoral hyaline, with a dark mark at its base ; ven- 

 tral nearly black ; posterior extremities of dorsal and caudal canary- 

 yellow ; all scales on upper part of body and free portion of tail 

 with light blue central spots. Some blue lines about the head in 

 the young, which has also free portion of tail yellow and chest 

 light-coloured. 



Hob. Numerous in the harbour at Karachi in Sind. 





