28 PKISTIPOMATID^E. 



76. Diagramma pictum. [128.] 



Perca picta, Thunburg, Nya Handlingar Stockh. 1793, xiii. p. 141, pi. 5. 

 Diagramma pictum, Cuv. fy Val. v. p. 315 ; Giinth. Fish. i. p. 327. 



Zanzibar. Aden. Indian seas. Penang. Java. Amboyna. Chinese and Japanese 

 seas. 



77. Diagramma lessonii. [H> 531.] 



Diagramma lessonii, Cuv. fy Val. v. p. 313; Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. p. 199, pi. 24 (bad) ; Giinth. 

 Fish. i. p. 329. 



Var. a. With continuous blackish-brown longitudinal bands. 



Var. b. With the longitudinal bands broken up into rows of round spots. 



Zanzibar. Aden. Waigiou. Amboyna. 



78. Diagramma blochii. [248,636.] 



Anthias diagramma, Bl. tab. 320. 



Diagramma blochii, Cuv. $ Val. v. p. 312 (?) ; Giinth. Fish. i. p. 329. 



D il™. A ? 



22-23' T 



The colour of the adult is dark grey, with darker longitudinal lines and series of 

 spots ; fins blackish, except pectorals, which are grey. 



No. [636] is the adult of [248]. The younger specimen agrees perfectly with the 

 Anthias diagramma of Bloch, although it is doubtful whether it is the same as the 

 I), blochii of Cuvier and Valenciennes, which is only known from a figure taken at 

 Trincomalee. 



Zanzibar. Ceylon. Penang. 



79. Diagramma cuvieri. [615, 618.] 



Seba, iii. 27. 17. 



Bodian cuvier, Benn. Fishes of Ceylon, no. 13. 



Diagramma sebae, Bleek. Verh. Batav. Genootsch. xxiii. Scicen. p. 24; Giinth. Fish. i. p. 331. 



Zanzibar. Batavia. Banda Neira. 



LOBOTES, Cuv. 



80. Lobotes auctorum. [!45.] 



Holocentrum surinamensis, Bl. t. 243. 



Lobotes erate, Cuv. £f Val. v. p. 322 ; Cantor, Mai. Fish. p. 80 ; Cuv. Regne An. III. Poiss. pi. 31. f. 1. 



auctorum, Giinth. Fish. i. p. 338. 



Mouth of Panganie River, east coast of Africa. Indian Ocean and Archipelago. 

 Atlantic shores of America. Caribbean Sea. 



