406 TELEOSTEI. ACANTHOPTEBYGII. 



D.9/12. P. 15. A. 3/12. C. 15. L. 1. 28-29. L. tr. 3/10. 



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

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

 snout, and 1 apart. Fins- first ray of ventral prolonged ; caudal 

 rounded. Colour green, some irregular violet bands between 

 eyes, and one from them to snout ; two or three over the opercles ; 

 back bluish, checkered with dull purplish red. A black spot with 

 a light anterior edge at base of pectoral. Dorsal and anal greenish, 

 an oval yellow spot between the bases of each two rays, and 

 another near their summits, soft portions with a broad purplish 

 external margin ; a blackish ocellus, with a yellow edge, between 

 fifth and seventh dorsal spine?. Caudal with a broad blue trans- 

 verse band having red spots, angles orange with a red base. 



Hub. East coast of Africa, seas of India, Malay Archipelago and 

 beyond. 



1267. (5.) Platyglossus leparensis. 



Julis (Halichceres) leparensis, Sleeker, Batavia Nat. Tijdsch. iii, 



p. 730. 

 Platyglossus leparensis, Day, Fish. India, p. 399, pi. Ixxxiv, fig. 3 



(see synon.). 



D. 9/12. P. 14. A. 3/12. C. 15. L. 1. 26-28. L. tr. 3|/8. 

 Length of head 4, height of body 4| to 4| in the total length. 

 Eyes diameter 4^ in the length of head, 1| diam. from end of 

 snout, and 1 apart. Fins caudal rounded. Colour a broad 

 brown streak from eye to snout, and a brown spot behind orbit, 

 continued, but in a lighter shade, to the tail ; four narrow curved 

 yellowish lines on upper portion of opercle. Body vertically 

 banded ; 5 or 6 narrow silvery lines along sides, the upper from the 

 eye ; many scales with brown spots, especially those above lateral 

 line. Dorsal fin with one or two rows of light round spots and 

 two black ocelli, the anterior between first two spines, the posterior 

 between first two or three rays, occasionally a third ocellus on 

 upper third of free portion of tail ; caudal fin yellowish red. 

 Hob. Andamans to the Malay Archipelago. 



1268. (6.) Platyglossus hortulanns. (Fig. 139.) 

 Labrus hortulanus, Lacep. H. N. Poiss. iii, p. 518, t. xxix, fig. 2. 

 Platyglossus hortulanus, Day, Fish. India, p. 399, pi. Ixxxv. fig. 3 

 (see synon.). 



Hembili-girwah, " Basket-parrot," Singhalese. 

 D. 9/11-12. P. 15. A. 3/11. L.I. 28. L. tr. 2|/9. Vert. 10/15. 



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

 %'* diameter 5 in length of head, 2 dam. from end of snout, 

 and 1? apart. Fins caudal truncated. Colour yellowish brown, 

 broad bluish oblique bands on the head, anterior' portion of back 



