30 Annals of the South African Museum. 



5th to 10th rays longest and 1 times height of longest spine, their 

 height nearly equalling base of soft portion of fin. Pectorals a little 

 more than i length of head, reaching the vent. Ventrals a little 

 more than -^ length of head, the spine as long as 3rd spine of dorsal 

 fin. Anal iii 9, 2nd spine strongest and not quite as high as 3rd, 

 which is f the height of 4th spine of dorsal. Caudal truncate and 

 about same length as ventral fin. Scales ciliated, in somewhat 

 bent rows going diagonally upwards and forwards ; extending over 

 base of dorsal fin, reaching higher on soft rays than on spines 

 and equally developed over bases of anal and caudal fins. Lat. 1. 55, 

 lat. tr. i}. 



Colour when fresh, pinkish with wavy darker stripes ; blackish on 

 top of head. In preservative the colour is silvery, with about 

 8 irregular dark longitudinal lines ; blackish on top of head and with 

 a black patch above and on sides of tail ; ventrals blackish, dorsal 

 and anal with a dark shade. 



One specimen, 185 mm. in length, from Mr. Eorner Robinson, 

 Natal, who describes it as having been caught in Durban Bay, and 

 kindly furnishes a note of the colour when alive. 



LUTIANUS LINEATUS, Q. and G. 



Teeth villiform, strong slightly curved anterior canines on upper 

 jaw, smaller ones laterally on lower ; a curved band on vomer, a 

 band on palatines, an oval patch of minute teeth on tongue. Depth 

 of body equals length of head and is 2 T 9 g times in total length 

 excluding caudal. Snout 1^ times diameter of eye, which is 

 2^- times in interorbital width and 5J times in length of head ; 

 distance between eye and upper edge of maxilla li times diameter 

 of eye, maxillary reaches vertical of anterior 3rd of orbit ; pre- 

 operculurn serrated, emarginate above angle and with a notch into 

 which a small interopercular knob is received ; operculum with 

 2 blunt points ; 8 series of scales between preorbital and angle of 

 preoperculum. 



Dorsal x 13, spines strong, 4th and 5th longest and J length of 

 head, the last spine of the fin a little more than -| height of longest ; 

 soft portion of fin lower than spinous, the anterior rays a little 

 longer than adjacent spine, posterior about f height of longest spine. 

 Pectorals | length of head, falcate. Ventrals i length of head. 

 Anal iii 8, spines strong ; 3rd spine longest, height of soft rays 

 and t 9 o height of longest spine of dorsal. Caudal deeply forked. 

 Scales moderately large on body, covering cheeks and opercles ; an 



