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fonrtli of that of the hody beneath. Caudal nearly sqnare in the young, the onter rays 
produced in old examples. Scales — two rows on the cheeks, none 'covering the lower 
limb of the preopercle. Colours — head superiorly Indian red, extending to snout and 
throat, becoming gradually more diluted over the belly : golden green on cheeks and 
opercles. Eye surrounded by emerald green, passing downwards in two stripes to the upper 
lip and chin, a second short one behind the chin : two short branches from the hind edge 
of the orbit. Body olive green becoming paler below. Dorsal fin banded as follows from 
summit to base, cobalt, deep vinous-red, emerald green, vinous-red and cobalt. Pectoral 
pale orange. Ventral rosy with its outer ray blue : anal banded as follows from outer 
edge to base, cobalt, rose, cobalt, red and cobalt. Caudal Venetian red, its upper and lower 
edges and three vertical bands cobalt. Every scale red at its base. 
Hahitat. — Arracan to the Malay Archipelago. 
Page 413. Add Psbudoscarus dussumieei. 
? Scarus dussumieri, Cuv. and Val. xiv, p. 252 ; Bleeker, Batav. p. 404. 
Fseucloscarus dussumieri, Bleeker, Scar. 1861, j). 13, and Atl. Ich. i, p. 46, t. viii, f. 1 ; Gunther, 
Catal, iv, p. 224. 
B. V, D. Vm P- 15, V. 1/5, A. f, C. 13, L. 1. 25. 
Length of head 3f, of caudal fin 6| in the total length. Byes — diameter 6|- in the 
length of the head, and 3 diameters from the end of the snout. Teeth— small ones at the 
corner of either jaw. Fins — -dorsal spines slightly increasing in length posteriorly and not 
so high as the rays : caudal emarginate except in the young. Scales — two rows on the 
cheeks and two scales on the preopercular limb. Colours — cerulean blue, with the lower 
edge of the body pale rose : the centre of every scale on the blue portion laeing gall-stone 
green, as is also the upper portion of the head. Cserulean blue bands and marks are round 
the orbit also radiating from it towards the forehead, the angle of the mouth, and 
irregularly over the cheeks. A blue band across the upper lip and another a short distance 
behind the lower one. Dorsal and anal fins of an orange gall-stone, having a 
cerulean blue basal, and a second outer band. Caudal of a similar colour with its outer 
rays blue, and three broken vertical blue bands on its outer half. Pectoral rays as follows : 
the upper blue, the succeeding four gall-stone orange, the remainder hyaline. VeiiHal 
outer ray blue, the rest hyaline with the outer halves of the second and third rays orange 
gall-stone. 
Hahitat. — Bed Sea, Persian Gulf, Arracan to the Malay Archipelago. 
Page 419. Add 2. Beotula jeedoni. 
D. 126, V. 1, A. 95. 
Length of head 6, height of body 5| in the total length. Fyes — in figure, diameter 31- 
in the length of the head, and | of a diameter from the end of the snout. Fins — dorsal 
commences over the base of the pectoral, vertical ones confluent. Colours — lilac along the 
back becoming white beneath, a black band from the eye to the angle of the subopercle, a 
second from above the eye passes downwards to the base of the pectoral, which fin it crosses 
obliquely, a third black band commences on the occiput but soon divides into two, the upper 
branch going along the base of the dorsal fin, and the lower passing down a short distance 
and then running parallel to the first. Fins yellowish, three large round black spots edged 
with white along the upper half of the dorsal fin, which has a dark margin, as has also 
the anal, which, however, is externally edged with white. 
Hahitat. — Taken at Madras in August, and among Sir. W. Elliot’s and Jerdon’s illus- 
trations is one 5‘4 inches in length. 
Page 419. 3. Beotula multibaebata. 
? Brotula multiharhata, Schlegel, Fauna Japon. Poiss. p. 251, pi. cxi, f. 2; Gunther, Catalog, 
iv, p, 371. 
Geneiates ferruginosus, Tickell, MSS. with a figure. 
D. C. and A. 165 (186), Y. 2. 
Heig’ht of body 5 (4 to 4|), length of head 5|- in the total length. Upper jaw the longer. 
The maxilla extends to below the hind edge of the eye, opercle ending in a spine. 
Barbels both jaws with three on either side. Fins — dorsal commences above the base 
of the pectoral, all the vertical fins confluent. Colours — reddish or vinous burnt umber 
becoming nearly white below. Vertical fins a little darker edged with black having an 
outer red margin. 
Hahitat. — Col. Tickell procured one 4‘9 inches long at Saddle Island off Kyoukphoo 
in Arracan in 1862, it is not so deep as shown in Schlegel’s figure : Jerdon also procured 
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