FISHES OF INDIA. 



fin, its spine weak and longer than the head, not serrated. Caudal deeply forked, lower 

 lobe somewhat the longer. Lateral-line — strongly marked in its first four scales. 

 Colours — olive, superiorly becoming silvery on the sides and below : a brassy tinge along 

 the lateral-line and over the cheeks and giU-covers. Fins amber: dorsal and caudal with 

 a narrow black edge. 



Habitat. — Colonel Tickell procured it at Moulmein, where he found it to be common. 

 His figure is 5^ inches long. 



Page 652. Family CHiEOCENTRiDiE. After " intestinal canal short," add " and furnished with spiral folds." 



Page 679. Add Syngnathus conspicillatus. 



Syngnathus fasciatus, Gray, Ind. Zool. c. fig. (not Risso). 



,, conspicillatus, Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Fish. p. 147, pi. xxvii, f. 4 ; Giinther, 



Catal. viii, p. 174. 

 Syngnathus hcematopterus, Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. ii, p. 2.58. 

 Corythoichthys fasciatus, Kaup, Lophob. p. 25 ; Kner, Novara Fisch. p. 391. 



D. 29-32, P. 14, A. 3, C. 10, osseous rings 16-17 + 34-37. 



Length of head about 10| in the total length : tail portion more than twice as long as 

 that of the body. Snout slender. The upper profile of the head rises abruptly above the 

 eyes. Opercle crossed by a ridge : a median ridge on the occiput and nuchal shields : a 

 supraorbital ridge which is continued along each side of the crown. Body slightly deeper 

 than broad, ridges well developed : egg pouch not quite half so long as the tail. Fins — 

 the dorsal commences on the anal or first caudal ring. Colours — trunk grayish-brown, 

 with deep brown interrupted transverse bands, and sometimes large white intermediate 

 spots. Fine brown lines on the head, and a band below the eye over the lower side of the 

 opercle. Dorsal fin a little spotted. 



Habitat. — From the east coast of Africa to the Pacific Ocean. The Colombo Museum 

 possesses five specimens procured from Jaffna in the northern portion of Ceylon (Haly, 

 Taprobanian i, 1886, p. 165). 



Page 692. Add Balistes bxjniva. 



Balistes niger, Osbeck, Voy. China, ii, p. 93 (not Linn.) ; Bl. taf. 152, f. 2 ; Bl. Schn. p. 472 ; 

 Lacep. i, p. 370, pi. xviii, f. 1; Richards. Voy. Samarang Fishes, p. 21, pi. vi, fig. 1-4, 

 and Ich. China, p. 201 ; Giinther, Fish Zanzibar, p. 135, pi. six, f. 1. 

 Balistes huniva, Lacep. v, p. 669, pi. xxi, f. 1 ; Giinther, Catal. i-iii, p. 227. 



„ pictus, Poey, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 1863, p. 180. 

 Melichthys ringens, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. v, p. 108, Balistes, pi. ccxx, f. 2. 



B. vi, D. 2-3/31-33, P. 15, A. 28-30, L. 1, 53 (65 Bleeker). 



Length of head 4, of caudal fin 8, height of body nearly half of the total length. 

 Eyes—h diameters in the length of the head, and 3| from the end of the snout: a 

 groove before the eye. Teeth — white, even, and incisor-like. Fins — first spine of 

 dorsal fin very strong : caudal posteriorly with an S-shaped outline, in old specimens the 

 lobes are slightly produced. Sea Zes— enlarged osseous plates behind the gill-opening. 

 Seven or eight raised and spiny lines on the side of the tail. Colours — black with a 

 raised white line along the bases of both the second dorsal and anal fins. 



Habitat. — Tropical parts of Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. It has been captured 

 in Zanzibar (Playfair) and Ceylon (Haly), where it appears to be common. 



Page 693. Add Moxacanthus toementoscs. 



Balistes tormentosus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 405 ; Gronov. ed. Gray, p. 34 ; La Cepede, i, 



pp. 333, 359. 

 Monacanthus tormentosus, Cuv. Regno Anim : Bleeker, Atl. Ich. v, p. 127, Balistes pi. vi, 



fig. i, male, and pi. xvi, fig. i, female : Giinther, Catal. viii, p. 238. 



„ hajam, Bleeker, 1. c. p. 126, Balistes, pi. i, fig. I, female, and pi. xvi, fig. 1, 3, rnale. 



„ trichurus, Bleeker, Nat. Tvds. Ned. Ind. iv, p. 125. 



„ helleri, Steind. Sitz. Ah. Wiss Wien. 1867, Iv, p. 712, t. iii, f. 3. 



B. vi, D-1/26-29, P. 11, A. 25-27, C. 10. 



Length of head 4, of caudal fin 5\, height of body 2| in the total length. _ Eyes— 

 situated high up in the posterior half of the head over the gill-opening and 2 diameters 

 from the end of the snout. Body somewhat elevated, profile from snout to fii-st dorsal 



