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Show 1870.] S U R G E O N F. D A Y O N A N D A M A N - I S L A N D FISHES. 697 Eyes. Diameter ^ of length of head, 1| diameter from end of snout, 1 diameter apart. Teeth in a single row; no posterior canines. Fins. Posterior dorsal spines the longest. Caudal cut square. Scales. About three rows of very small ones on the cheeks, and a few on the upper part of the opercles. Colours. All that portion of the body behind a line from the commencement of the dorsal to the base of the anal dark violet, some of the lower scales being blue-spotted ; anterior to this nearly white below, but darker along the top of the head, whilst most of the scales have more or less dark spots. Length nearly 4 inches in the single specimen obtained. 175. EPIBULUS STRIATUS, sp. nov. D. 9/10. P. 11. V. 1/5. A. 3/8. L. 1. 19. L. tr. 2/7. Length of head above f, of caudal T 2 T, height of body f- of the total length. Eyes. Diameter f of length of head, 1 diameter from end of snout and apart. The extremity of the lower jaw reaches to opposite the posterior margin of the orbit, and the posterior process of the intermaxillary to opposite the last third of the orbit. Fins not elongated. Lateral line interrupted opposite the middle of the soft dorsal. Colours. A white line between the orbits, and two more on the head, the first of which runs from the eye to the snout; the second descending from the orbit meets with the one from the opposite side. Body greenish brown, with five narrow milk-white vertical bands: the first runs from the opercles to before the ventral fin ; the second from the second dorsal spine to the end of the ventral fin ; the third from the centre of the dorsal spines to the base of the anal; the fourth from the end of the dorsal fin to the end of the anal; and the fifth round the base of the caudal. Soft dorsal and termination of anal white. Length of single specimen ly^- inch. 176. HEMIGYMNUS MELANOPTERUS, Bl. The coloration of the caudal fin was darker in the Andamanese specimens than shown in Bleeker, and the scales were dotted with blue. 177. STETHOJULIS STRIGIVENTER, Bennett. 178. PLATYGLOSSUS SCAPULARIS, Bennett. 179. PLATYGLOSSUS LEPARENSIS, Blkr. Andamans and Nicobars. 180. PLATYGLOSSUS NOTOPSIS, K. & v. H. |