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9. Scohpsis ciUatns, D. >/> A. f, L. 1. 40, L. tr. 4/15. A silvery line from between the lateral-line and 

 the back, from near the head to the commencement of the soft dorsal : most of the scales below the lateral-line 

 •with a golden spot. Andamans to the Malay Archipelago and beyond. 



1. Scolopsis bimaculatus, Plate XXII, fig. 1. 



RiippeU, Atl. Fische, p. 8, t. ii, f. 2, and N. W. Fische, p. 126 ; Gunther, Catal. i, p. 357; Klunz. Verb. z. 

 b. Ges. Wien, 1870, p. 740 ; Bleeker, Revis. Scolop. p. 3G7. 



Scolopsides bimaculatus, Cuv. and Val. v, p. 340. 



Scolopsides inermis, Cuv. and Val. v, p. 340 ; Richards. Ich. China, p. 236, (not Tern, and Schleg.) 



Scolopsides monogramma, Bleeker, Sciasn. p. 29, (ex parte.) 



B. V, D. V°, P- 18, V. 1/5, A. f, C. 17, L. 1. 48, L. tr. 4|/14. 



Length of head about 1/4, of caudal 1/6, height of body 4/13 to 2/7 of tlie total length. Ei/es — diameter 

 1 /3 of length of head, 1 diameter from end of snout, and 3/4 apart. The maxilla reaches to nearly beneath the 

 front edge of the orbit. Preorbital 1/2 as high as the diameter of the orbit, having a strong spine, with fom- or 

 five denticulations along the posterior margin of its plate. Vertical limb of preopercle serrated, most strongly so 

 at the antrle. Teeth — fine. Fins — dorsal spines strong, the fourth the highest being rather longer than the post- 

 orbital portion of the head. Pectoral nearly as long as the head. Second anal spine stronger but shorter than 

 the third, which equals one-third the length of the head : caudal lunated. Colours — gi-eyish, becoming dull 

 white on the abdomen : a broad light opercular band. Branchiostegal membranes blood-red. A brownish band 

 over the snout, and one or two blotches on the lateral-line, the first large, being from the eleventh to the twenty- 

 second scales, the second smaller and behind the posterior extremity of the dorsal fin, or the two may be 

 conjoined. Fins orange, becoming reddish externally. Eyes silvery. 



Uabitat. — Red Sea, seas of India and China. The specimen which is figured was captured at Madras in 

 June, 1867, and is nearly 8| inches in length. Instead of having a long single blotch on the side, it has taken the 

 form of two distinct ones. 



2. Scolopsis phaeops, Plate XXII, fig. 2. 



Scolopsides phmops, Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, i, p. 165. 



Scolopsis plueopis, Giinter, Catal. i, p. 358. 



Scolopsis nototcenia, Playfair, Fish. Zanz. p. 29, pi. v, fig. 2. 



B. v,D. V, P- 16, V- 1/5, A. f, C. 17, L. 1. 46-48, L. tr. 5/16. 



Length of head 1/4 to 4^, of caudal nearly 1/5, height of body 3f to 3j in the total length. Ei/es— 

 diameter 2/9 of length of head, 11 diameters from end of snout, and Ij apart. Interorbital space rather convex 

 transversely. Cleft of mouth somewhat oblique, the maxilla reaching to below the front edge of the orbit. 

 Preorbital spine of moderate size, with a strong denticulation on the posterior-inferior edge of the plate. 

 Vertical limb of preopercle slightly emarginate, the angle being rounded and somewhat produced : on the vertical 

 limb the serrations are strongest, superiorly decreasing in strength to above the angle where they become almost 

 spinate. Teeth — in the jaws fine. Fins — dorsal spines of moderate strength, increasing in length to the fourth 

 which equals 1/3 of the height of the body. Pectoral equals the length of the head excluding the snout : third 

 anal spine longer but not quite so strong as the second, and equalling 2/7 of the height of the body : caudal 

 forked, upper lobe somewhat the longer. Colours — greenish-olive above the lateral-line, becoming yellowish- 

 white below it : a narrow light band runs along the back close to the base of the dorsal fin. _ A wide bright blue 

 band passes from the eye over the preorbital and upper maxillary bone ceasing a short distance between the 

 centre of the upper jaw and the angle of the mouth : a second goes from the posterior edge of the eye to the axilla 

 where it ends in a blue spot : fins reddish. 



In the dried skin shown me in the British ]\Iuseum of S. nototmiia, Plaj^'air, and as I understood the type, 

 the anal spines are correctly described as " the two last spines are nearly equal in length, but the second is the 

 stronger, they are about one-third of the length of the head :" (Fish. Zanz. p. 30,) but they have evidently been 

 injured and grown again in an irregular manner. 



Habitat. — East coast of Africa, seas of India. Not imcommon ofi' Smd. The specimen figured is 

 9i inches in length. 



3. Scolopsis bilineatus, Plate XXII, fig. 3. 



Anthias bilineatus, Bloch, t. 325, fig. 1 ; Bl. Schn. p. 306. 



Lidjanus ellipticus, Lacep. iv, p. 213. 



Scolopsides bilineatus, Cuv. and Val. v, p. 336 ; Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. xxiii, Scisen. p. 28. 



Scolopsides lineatus, Bleeker, Solor. p. 73, (not Riipp.) 



Scolopsis bilineatus, Gunther, Catal. i, p. 357 ; Bleeker, Revis. Scolop. p. 359. 



Scolop)sis Bleekeri, Giinther, Catal. i, p. 361. 



B. V, D. V, P- 16, V. 1/5, A. f, C. 17, L. 1. 46, L. tr. 4/14, Ciec. pyl. 5. 



Length of head 1/4 or a little less, of caudal 1/5, height of body 2/7 of the total length. i7(/es— diameter 

 4/11 to 2/5 of length of head, 2/3 of a diameter from end of snout, and 1 apart. The maxilla reaches to below 

 the front edge of the orbit or even to its fii-st third in the adult. Vertical limb of preopercle serrated, and its angle 



