polytoenia

Updated: May 23, 2025

It is allied to Helotes polytoenia, Bleek., from Halmaheira which it can be readily distinguished by having only five or six blackish longitudinal bands, the black humeral spot being between the first and second; another blackish blotch is in the spinous dorsal fin.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon