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the Ttli dorsal spine. Ventral from two thirds to }une tenths longer than the 
pectoral, the spine 24 in the outer ray^ which is much produced. 2 to 24 in 
the body-length, and reaches to betweioi the 2nd anal spine and the 3rd ray. 
Gill-rakers 4 + the 3 anterior on the upper liml) rudimentary, the 
rest very short but pointed. 
Golden green, with six or seven }>urple transverse bands as wide as or 
somewhat narrower than the interspaces, in the smaller exam])le these are con- 
tinued on the bases of the dorsal and anal fins, or across the abdomen, or around 
the peduncle, but in the larger example are wliolly confined to tlie sides of the 
body; each of the scales on the lighter l)ody-bands has also a dull blue central 
spot. Head and throat purple. unii‘orm or blue-si)ot1etl. the tormer with a wide 
silvery band extending downwards from the nar)e lo or nearly to the preopercular 
spine and entering the eye. Spinous dorsal golden green ; soft dorsal, caudal, 
and anal purplish l)rown, profusely adorned with circular blue spots; pectorals 
brown, with a narrow suffused grayish border: ventrals unitoian purple. 
Etijmologij : — Latin: sex^ six; siriatus^ striped. 
Beg. Xo. in Queensland Huseum of the specimens described;—!. 13/1455-6. 
ills of a typical Queensland example: — See p. 116. 
Bange : — Seas of the Malay Archipelago eastward to the Gulf of I^apaa 
and Xorth-Eastern Queensland. 
Described originally from a Javanese example, sent to Paris by Kuhl and 
van Hassett, Bleeker early extended its range in a northerly direction to Singa- 
pore. where, however, it is ■i>robably scarce since it was unknowi:» to Cantor, much 
of Avhose material was collected there. Subsequently the grt'at Dutch naturalist 
obtained s}>ecimens from Celebes and Amboina, and ui 1877 he wrote in the 
Atlas lehthyologique, “Le sexstriatus n’a pas ete trouve hors 
rinsulinde.'’ Even within these limits it does not ai>pear to be generally distri- 
buted, as it has not Ix'en recorded from Borneo, nor have the American I'ollectors 
been more succ'essful in llie Philip])in(‘s ; from tln^ Aron Islands too, which have 
been fairly well exploited by Bleeker, AVebor, and myself, it is as yet unrecorded, 
and it is distinctly strange that so large and striking a species should have 
entirely escaped the notice of the earlier ^lalayan historians, such a.s Ruysch, 
Eenard, aud Valentyn, from which we may inhn* that it is not a common fish 
among the Spice Islands. The earliest record of its occurrence in Australia 
was published coincidentally with Bleeker ’s rennark above quoted, by Alleyne 
and IMaeleay on the strength of ‘Cseveral large speeinums taken near Cape Gren- 
ville’^ by members of the Chevert Expedition; incidentally this is the most 
southerly station from which it has been as yet recorded; in the following year 
Macleay received it from Port Darwin, X.T, and two years later from Port 
Moresby, B.N.G. Our specimens, three in number, come from Darnley Island. 
