26 PRISTIPOMATID.E. 



69. Pristipoma stridens. [20.] 



Sciaena stridens, Forsk. p. 50. 



Pristipoma simmena, Cuv. &; Val. v. p. 260. 



stridens, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 122, taf. 31. f. 1 ; Giinth. Fish. i. p. 300. 



Zanzibar. Aden. Bed Sea. 



DIAGRAMMA, Cuv. 



70. Diagramma affine. [659.] 



Pristipoma nigrum, Cunt. Mai. Fish, p. 7-i (an Cuv. 6f Val.??). 

 Diagramma affine, Giinth. Fish. i. p. 319. 

 nigrum, Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 23. 



Zanzibar. East-Indian archipelago. North-west coast of Australia. 



71. Diagramma griseum. Plate IV. fig. 3, var. b. [16, 330, 565.] 

 Diagramma griseum, Cuv. fy Val. v. p. 306 ; Giinth. Fish. i. p. 321. 



D.jijj. A.^. L.lat.74. 



The specimen of this collection marked [16] is the variety described by Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes. Nos. [330] and [565] are identical, and constitute a new variety, struc- 

 turally the same as the previous, but differing widely as to coloration. 



Var. a [16]. Uniform grey; fins darker. Length 13J inches. 

 Zanzibar. Aden. Malabar. 



Var. b [330, 565]. Colour grey above, white below, with four whitish curved cross 

 bands ; the first crosses the forehead and terminates at the angles of the operculum 

 and praeoperculum ; the second proceeds from the second dorsal spine, in the direction 

 of the root of the ventrals ; the third runs parallel to the last from the seventh and 

 eighth dorsal spines ; and the fourth, also parallel, runs from the first anal ray to the 

 posterior of anal. Fins blackish, immaculate. Length 4^ to 17 inches. 



Zanzibar. Kiswarra Bay. 



72. Diagramma pertusum. Plate IV. fig. 2. [532.] 



Perca pertusa, Thunberg, Nya Handl. Stockh. 1793, xiv. p. 198, pi. 7. f. 1. 

 Diagramma thunbergii, Cuv. § Val. v. p. 308. 

 pertusum, Giinth. Fish. i. p. 321. 



D -^i- A -£i- L.lat. 100. 



