402 TELEOSTEI. ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



1260. (1.) Hemigymnus melanopterus. (Fig. 137.) 



Labrus ruelapterus, Bloch, Ich. t. 285. 



Hemigymnus melanopterus, Gunther, Catal. iv, p. 139 ; Day, Fish. 

 India, p. 396, pi. Ixxxiv, fig. 2 (see synon.). 



D. 9/11. P. 13. A. 3/10. C. 15. L. 1. 27-29. L. tr. 5/14. 



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

 length. Eyes diameter 4 in the young, to 6 or 6| in length of 

 head in adults, 2 to 3 diam. from end of snout, and 1| to 2 apart, 

 Lips very thick, the lower notched in middle, each lateral portion 

 pendent like a wattle. Colour bluish, brown above, yellowish 

 beneath ; a dark mark behind orbit ; scales dotted with blue ; dorsal 

 and anal light at their external third, followed by a bluish band, edged 



Fig. 137. Hemigymnus melanopterus. 



darker ; caudal dark. In the young, the body behind a line from com- 

 mencement of dorsal to base of anal dark violet, some of the lower 

 scales blue-spotted ; anterior to this nearly white beneath, but darker 

 along top of head; most of the scales with more or less dark spots. 

 Hob. Zanzibar, Andamans, Malay Archipelago, and Australia. 



1261. (2.) Hemigymmis fasciatus. 

 Mullus fasciatus, Thunb. Reise nach Japan, iv, p. 351, t. 314. 

 Hemigymnus fasciatus, Gunther, A. M. N. H. 1801, ser. 3, viii, 



p. 386 ; Lay, Fish. India, p. 396 (see synon.). 

 Panoo-ffirawah, " Worm parrot," Singhalese. 

 D. 9/11. P. 14. A. 3/11. C. 14. L. 1. 23-29. L. tr. 5/11. 



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

 length. Eyes diameter 5 to 6 in length of head, nearly 3 diam. 

 from end of snout. Lips very thick, folded ; lower notched 'in middle 

 and pendent like a wattle. Fins caudal truncated. Colour bluish, 

 with broad rivulated red bands on head, and a brown spot behind 

 the eye ; these marks appear to be sometimes absent. Five vortical 

 brownish cross bands, wider than ground-colour, descend from back 

 to the abdomen. Dorsal and anal brownish, the former with blue 



