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contiguous part of the dorsal; rest of trunk and head, membrane of the anterior 
dorsal spines, pectorals, centrals, caudal, and adjoining stri]) of the i)edun(de 
golden yellow; a broad blue-bhu*k arcuate band l)etween the eyes, continued 
across the cheek as an obscure dull blue evanescent band; lips and chin dull blue; 
dorsal, anal, ventral, and preopercular spines Iduislnwhite. 
Hi ymologjj : — Latin: bicol<A\ of two colors. 
Beg. No. in Queensland ^luseum of specimens deseril)ed: — I. 14/1840-1. 
Meas}{r( ntf itfs of a. typical (-^lUHmshind example: — See p. 116. 
Bange: — Malay Archipelago eastward to Samoa.- 
Through some confusion with the West Indian Iloiacaodhus tricolor 
Bloch and his immediate followers gave th(* distributioji of this species as les 
deux Indes. a mistake which was not t-orrected until the publication by Valen- 
ciennes of tlie seventh volume of the “llistoire Xaturelle des Poissons.^’ It 
was not oi)tained by (huilor in ^Malaysia, but Hleeker records it from numerous 
localities — Sumatra. Flores, Solor, Aml)oina, Ternate. (hu'am, Sa})aroea, Banda, 
Arou, and New Guinea. To these Gunther ad<le<l the Solomon and Navigator 
Groups, from the latter of whi(*li .Iordan and Scab* also received it. IMaeleay 
recorded it from Port ^Moresby, British New Guinea, and subseijuently from 
the D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago, to the eastward of the Territory, but he was 
unable to include it in the Appendix to his ‘‘Descriptive Chitalogue of Australian 
Fishes,” published in 1884. Later, howtu'er. in the sajue ytan* d(‘ Vis announced 
the occurrence of two s|)ecimens from the Queensland Goast : in addition to 
these the QiUeensland iduseum ])ossesses two other local examples labeled 
“Moreton Bay.” Finally the Endeavour trawled five sp(‘cimens on fine dark 
sand in 33 fathoms three and a half miles south-east from Double Island Point. 
JIoiv acquired: — The two specimens originally recorded by de Vis were 
collected by iMr. Kendall Broadbent on the North Queensland C-oast ; of those 
from Moreton Bay no further mformation is procurable. 
Dimensions: — A small species, attaining a length of 120 millim. 
Beniarks: — Described from the idoreton Bay specimens above mentioned, 
which respectively measure 97 and 105 millim. 
HOLACANTHUS SEXSTRIATUS KxM & van Hasselt. 
Holacanthus sexstriaixis (Kulil & van Hassolt) Cuvier Sz Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 
1831, p. 194; Bleeker, Nat., Gen. Arch. Nodorl. Ind,, i, 1844, p, 520; id., Verli. Batav. 
Gen., xxiii. 1850, Chset., p. 25 ; id., Nat. Tijds. Nedeil. Ind., iii, p. 57 ; id., Act. Soc. Sci. 
“ Gunther, relying on Garrett, records the species from the Hawaiian Islands, but the keen- 
eyed American collectors of those much-exploited isles having failed to rediscover it, the record 
must be taken as doubtful. 
