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163. Teuthis nebulosa. Hate X. fig. 3. [26.] 



Amphacauthus nebulosus, Quoy if Gaim. Voy. Uran. Zool. p. 369; Cuv. (f Val. x. p. 164. 



niaculosus, Quoy if Gaim. I. c. p. 379. 



gymnopareius, Richards. Ann. if Mag. Nat. Hist. 1843, xi. p. 174. 



olivaceus, Cuv. if Val. x. p. 163. 



Teuthis nebulosa, Giinth. Fish. iii. p. 321. 



D 13 A 7 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length, and the length of the head 

 one-fourth of that without caudal. The snout is not much longer than the eye. The 

 soft portion of the cheek, between the orbit, prseopercular limbs, and snout, is two-thirds 

 as high as long. There are twelve teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaws. 

 The anterior margin of the orbit is obtusely denticulated. The spines of the fins are of 

 moderate length and strength, the fifth of the dorsal being half as long as the head. 

 Caudal fin deeply emarginate. 



Body and vertical fins greyish olive, irregularly marbled with darker. Caudal with 

 inconspicuous dark cross bands. 



Length 6 inches. 



Aden. Zanzibar. Island of Johanna. Mauritius. Australia. 



Family BERYCID^. 



MYRIPBJSTIS, Cuv. & Val. 



164. Myripristis murdjan. [83, 207.] 

 Scisena murdjan, Forsk. p. 48. 



Myripristis murdjan, Cuv. if Val. iii. p. 177, vii. p. 495; Giinth. Fish. i. p. 21. 



Var. a. Red, each scale with a reddish silvery centre ; opercular membrane deep red ; 

 fins red. 



Var. b. Resembles M. parvidens (Cuv. & Val. iii. p. 173). It differs from var. a in 

 having the denticulations of the upper maxillary very feeble, in the scapulary being 

 entire, and in the more feeble striae on the interoperculum. 



Zanzibar. Aden. Bed Sea. Amboyna. 



165. Myripristis adustus. [191,452.] 

 Myripristis adustus, Bleek. Nat. Tydschr. Ned. Ind. 1853, Amboyna, iii. p. 18; Giinth. Fish. i. p. 22. 



D. 10 j^jg. A. jj^j. L. lat. 28-30. L. transv. 3/7. 



Zanzibar. Amboyna. 



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