782 FISHES OP INDIA. 



An example from tlie Isle of France exists in the National Museum ; another is in the 

 Paris Museum, received fromM. Lienard, of the Mauritius, and the coloured figure of a 

 Madras specimen termed Semharra punnee, Pam., exists in the late bir Walter iiihot s 

 collection made at Madras. 



Page 24. Seeranus guttatus. 



It has been my belief that this is a variety of the 8. liemistichis, the latter wanting the 

 cross bands. S. guttatus was figured in colours in the Fisclie de Sudsee by the late 

 Mv Ford and as the specimen was superior to mine I requested him to employ the same 

 fish for my uncoloured representation. He did so, but the bands had faded, and now 

 the Siidsee figure is referred to as S. guttatus, mine as S. hemistictus. As both were from 

 the identical specimen by the same artist, it afibrds an additional argument that they are 

 varieties of one species. 

 Page 25. Sereanus leopardus. Add to synonymy. 



Serranus sexmaculatus, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 107. 

 Serranus zanana, Cuv. and Val. ii, p. 339. 



Page 27. Variola lotjti. Add to synonymy. 



Serranus flavimarginatus, Riipp. Atl. p. 109. 



Serramis novemcinctus, Kner, Novara Fische, p. 17, t. ii, f. 1. 



Page 27. For Anthias mdltideks read Apeion pristopoma. Add synonyms. 



■Pristipomoides typus, Bleeker, Sumatra, p. 575. 



Bentex pristopoma, Bleeker, Celebes, p. 216. 



Mesoprion dentex, Bleeker, Enum. Pise. p. 20. 



Lutjanus dentex, Bleeker, Amboina, p. 278. 



Chcetopterus prist ipoma, Bleeker, ChEetop. p. 83, and Fish. Madagascar, t. x. 



Anthias multidens, Day, Fish. India, p. 27, pi. vii, f. 4. 



Aprion pristipoma, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. viii, p. 79 ; Pero. t. Iviii, f. 3. 



Centopristis pristopoma, Klunzinger, Fisc. Roth. Meer, p. 16. 



Add Genus. Aphareus, Cuv. and Val. , ., t n- ^r 



Branchiostegals seven, pseudohrancUm. Body ohlong. Cleft of mouth wide and oblique, the 

 lower jaw the longer. Preopercle and preorlital entire. Canines absent, palate edentulous. 

 A single dorsal fin, with the front portion the highest, spines (10-12) feeble: caudal forked. 

 Scales small. Air-bladder simple. A respiratory cavity behind the branchice. Pyloric 

 appendages few. 



Page 27. Aphareds rutilans. 



Aphareus rutilans, Cuv. and Val. vi, p. 490; Riippell, N.W.F. p. 121 ; Bleeker, Amboina, 

 p. 52, and Atl. Ich. vii, Perc. t. xxi, f. 2 ; Gunther, Catal. i, p. 386 ; Klunz. F.R.M. 

 p. 45. 

 Aphareus furcatus, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. viii, p. 80. 



B. viii, D. ia;H P. 16, V. 1/5, A. |, C. 17, L. 1. 65-70, Coec. pyl. 5. 

 Length of head 4, of caudal fin 3| to 3f , height of body 4f to 5 in the total length. 

 ^j,es_cliameter 4 in the length of the head, 1^ diameters from the end of the snout and 1 

 apart. Tee^/t— anteriorly in two or three rows, in a single row posteriorly. Fins— ionrth. 

 and fifth dorsal spines the highest in the fin ; last dorsal and anal rays prolonged to twice 

 the length of the penultimate ones ; caudal deeply forked. Colours— rose j, darkest along 

 the back, with a yellow blotch between each ray of the dorsal fin near their bases ; caudal 



lobes with dark tips. , 



Bleeker considered this species to be identical with Labrus furcatus, Lacep., or Aphareus 



ccerulescens, Cuv. and Val. i. -nr tt i 



Habitat.— Red Sea to the Malay Archipelago. Obtained at Ceylon by Mr. Ualy. 



Page 28. Add Grammistes pdnctatus. 



Cuv. and Val. vi, p. 504 ; Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, 1875, p. 11, t. ii, f. B; Bleeker, 

 Fish. Madagascar, 1874, p. 24, t. xiii, and Atl. Ich. vii, p. 69, Perc. t. lix, f. 5. 



B. vi, D. ?/tV, p. 16, V. 1/5, A. 11, C. 17. 



Lcnn-th of head 3i, of caudal fin 7, height of body 4 in the total length. Eyes— high 

 up, diameter 5^ in the length of the head, about | a diameter apart. Lower jaw the 

 longer. Vertical limb of preopercle with spinate denticulations : three spines on opercle. 

 A barbel, rather longer than one diameter of the eye, at the symphysis of the lower jaw. 



