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body and fins are far less numerous, and the black spots between the dorsal spines 

 have become extremely indistinct. 

 Zanzibar. 



Var./ [566]. The ground-colour has become of a deep brown, the spots have 

 entirely disappeared, but a trace of the cross bands, as in a and b, is perceptible in a 

 dried state. 



Length 11 inches. 



Zanzibar. 



Var. g [421]. Also without spots. Ground-colour brownish, clouded with lighter 

 on the back. 



Length 13 inches. 

 Seychelles. 



GEAMMISTES, Cuv. 



26. Grammistes orientalis. [431.] 



Grammistes orientalis, Bl. Schn. p. 189; Cuv. ty Val. ii. p. 203; Gunth. Fish. i. p. 171. 

 Zanzibar. Mauritius. East-Indian seas. Australia. 



GENYOROGE, Cantor*. 



27. Genyoroge macolor. [360, 590.] 



Synonymy of var. a. G. macolor [360] : — 



Macolor, Renard, i. pi. 9. f. 60, pi. 7. f. 30; Valent. hi. p. 348, pi. 1. f. 1. 



Diacope macolor, Cuv. $ Val. ii. p. 415 ; Less. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. iv. p. 409, and Voy. Cog. Zool. 



ii. p. 230, pi. 22. f. 2. 

 Mesoprion macolor, Bleek. Nat. Tydschr. Ned. Ind. 1852, Celebes, iii. p. 752. 

 Genyoroge macolor, Gunth. Fish. i. p. 176. 



Synonymy of var. b. G. nigra [590] : — 



Scisena nigra, Forsk. p. 47. 



Lutjanus niger, Bl. Schn. p. 326. 



Diacope nigra, Cuv. § Val. ii. p. 431; Riipp. N. W.Fische, p. 93, t. 24. f. 1. 



Genyoroge nigra, Gunth. Fish. i. p. 176. 



10 



D. " A. 



13-15* "-■ 10-1 r 



The specimens described by various authors as G. macolor and nigra are evidently 

 the same fish at different stages of growth. We have examined a series of specimens 

 from Zanzibar, in which the transition from macolor to nigra is clearly traced. The 



* Undetermined specimen [296]. 



