SUPPLEMENT, 1888. 783 



Teeth — generic. Scales — small, imbedded in mucus. Colours — grayish-brown, with small 

 white dots. 



A third species, with 7 or 8 dorsal spines and a more elongated body, has been found at 

 the Seychelles, and appears to be G. compressus, Lienard. 



Page 33. For Ldtjanus Bengalensis read L. kasmira. 



Forskal's species appears to be identical with Holocentrus Bengalensis, Bloch, but the 

 variety he mentions with a black lateral blotch is H. quinquelinearis, Bloch, and is 

 certainly a distinct species, the latter differing, irrespective of colouring, in many 

 important points from the former, for its preopercular notch is deeper, its eye larger, its 

 snout more rounded, &c. In some specimens the bands on the side are red, not blue. 



Page 37. Lutjanus argentimaculatcs. Add synonym. 



Mesoprion garretti, GUnther, Fische Siidsee, p. 15, t. xiii, f. B. 



Page 40. For Lutjanus quinquelineatus read cjirtjleolineata. Add synonym. 



Mesoprion ccendeolineata, Klunz. F.R.M. p. 15. Erase synonym 



Holocentrus quinquelineatus, Bl. Schn, as this appears to have been a misprint for H. 

 quinquelinearis, and referred to Blooh's figure No. 239. The species here described is 

 identical with one of Bloch's specimens thus marked in the Berlin Museum. 



Page 41, Lutjanus pulviilamjia. Omit from synonyms. 



Sparus antilca doondiaivah, Russell, Fish. Vizag. i, p. 7G, pi. 98. 

 Mesoprion unimaciilatus, Quoy and Gaim. Voy. Freyc. p. 304, &c. 



„ aurolineatus, Cuv. and Val. iii, p. 496. 



„ Russellii, Bleeker, Perc. p. 41. 

 Lutjanus notattis, Bleeker, Ternat. p. 233. 

 Genyoroge notata, Cantor, Catal. p. 12. 

 Mesoprion ehrenhergii (Peters) Boulenger, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. G65. 



Page 42. Lutjanus fulviflamma, var. Russellii. Add synonyms as omitted from last species. 



Lutjanus russellii, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. viii, p. 71, Perc. t. xxii, f. 2. 



Page 42. Add Lutjanus nigra. 



Scicena nigra, Forsk. Desc. Anim. p. 47 ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1300. 



Lritjanus nigra, Bl. Schn. p. 326. 



Biacope nigra, Cuv. and Val. ii, p. 431 ; Rupp. N.W. Fische, p. 93, t. xxiy, f. 1 ; Klunz. 



Fische, R. M. p. 11. 

 Proamblys niger. Gill, Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Phil. 1862, p. 236. 



{Young.) 

 Biacope viacolor, Cuv. and Val. ii, p. 415 ; Less. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. iv, p. 409, and Voy. 



Coq. Zool. ii, p. 230, pi. xxii, f. 2. 

 Mesoprion macolor, Bleeker, Celebes, iii, p. 753. 



Genyoroge macolor et nigra, Giinther, Catal. i, p. 176, Fish. Zanzibar, p. 14. 

 Macolor typus, Bleeker, Amboina, Ned. T. Dierk. ii, p. 277. 

 Lutjanus macolor, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. viii, p. 75, Perc. t. Ixv, f. 3. 



B vii, D. Ti-°TT, P- 17, V. 1/5, A. T5?TT> C. 17, L. I. 45-50, Cooc. pyl. 4. 



Length of head 35, of caudal fin 4^ to 4^, height of body 3 to 3^ in the total length. 

 Byes — 3^ to 4 diameters in the length of the head, 1 diameter from the end of the snout, and 

 1 apart. Upper profile of head very convex. Lower jaw the longer. Vertical limb of 

 preoperele with a deep notch to receive a large interopercular knob, and its lower edge 

 serrated. Fins — dorsal and anal with their soft parts pointed, pectoral long, reaching the 

 anal. Caudal emarginate. Colours — adult, of a grayish-black, immature, dark purplish, 

 nearly black (belly bluish), with several light spots along the base of the dorsal fin. Alight 

 band along the middle of the body and tail fin. Another from the eye over the jaws, 

 and a third down the opercle. Fins dark, the posterior ends of dorsal and anal fins light- 

 coloured. Caudal lobes tipped with white. 



Bleeker considered that Lutianus nigra to be distinct from L. macolor. 



Habitat. — Red Sea, East Coast of Africa, Navigator Islands to the Malay Archipelago, 

 and Mr. Haly in 1887 had an example sent from the Maldives to the Ceylon Museum. 



Page 48. 1. Priacanthus blochii. Add synonyms. 

 Scicena hamruhr, Forsk. Des. An. p. 45. 

 Anthias hamruhr, Bl. Schn. p. 307. 



Priacanthus hamruhr, Cuv. and Val. iii, p. 104 ; Giinther, Catal. i, p. 219 ; Bleeker, Atl. Ich. 

 vii, p. 13, Perc. t. Ixxv, f . 3. 



