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Show 1870.] SUBGEON F. DAY O N ANDAMAN-ISLAND FISHES. 687 Scales serrated posteriorly, and holes like pin-marks all Colours. Uniform rosy scarlet. Length of specimen 8 inches. Hab. Port Blair. Family SQUAMIPINNES*. 76. CH^ETODON VAGABUNDUS, Linn. Pah-noo-dah, And. 77. CH.ETODON PICTUS, Forsk. 78. CH^ETODON PLEBEJUS, Gmel. D. 14/17. A. 4/16. L. 1. 50. Colours. Yellow. Ocular band black, with a white edge. at base of caudal black, with a white margin. 79. CH^ETODON DIZOSTER, C. & V. This species was from the Nicobars. 80. HENIOCHUS MACROLEPIDOTUS, C. & V. Pah-no-dah, And. 81. SCATOPHAGUS ARGUS, Linn. Po-ra-dah, And. Csec. pylori 18. 82. EPHIPPUS ORBIS, Bl. Kol-lid-daih, And. Csec. pylori 4. 83. DREPANE PUNCTATA, Linn. Gun-na-to-dah, And. 84. TOXOTES JACULATOR, Pall. Chd-ra-wud-dah, And. One specimen was 9 inches in length. Family TEUTHID^:. 85. TEUTHIS VIRGATA, C. & V. Tah-meer-dah, And. D. 13/10. P.15. A. 7/9. C. 17. Colours. Upper two-thirds of body coppery yellow, covered with * I obtained some specimens at Madras, lT'o inch long, of a fish which appears to m e to belong to the genus termed Tholichthys by Dr. Giinther, but which seems to be the young form of a genus of this family. I have placed one, however, in the British Museum as T. osseus. D. 12/25. P. 15. V. 1/5. A. 3/19. C. 17. L. 1. 41. Length of head nearly \, of caudal £, height of body ^ of tbe total length. Eyes. Diameter ^ of length of bead, 1 diameter apart. Mouth small. Suprascapular considerably dilated; preopercular angle enlarged, reaching to the ventral fin. Suborbital ring enlarged, descending as low as the gill-opening, and its lower edge with five denticulations. Lateral line ceases opposite to the middle of the soft dorsal. Scales ctenoid, none on the bead. Fins. Dorsal notched, third spine the longest. Second anal spine longest and strongest. Ventrals rounded. Caudal cut square. I cannot resist considering this to be one of the Squamipinnes, probably a young Chcetodon or Holocanthus, and, I believe, a Tholichthys of a more adult age than Dr. GKinther's types. |