BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 235 



slightly falcate ; the tail is slightly emarginate. The general 

 colour is blackish, but every scale has a pearly portion, larger on 

 the belly, which probably in the living specimen was red ; a 

 whitish spot shows on the lateral line below the middle of the 

 soft dorsal ; all the scaleless parts of the head and cheeks seem 

 to have been covered with a number of bluish transverse streaks ; 

 the vertical fins and tail are very dark ; the pectorals are black on 

 the upper rays, and the ventrals have the rays yellow and the 

 membranes black. 



One specimen about 8 inches in length. The label attached 

 to this species is illegible. 



31. Priacanthus hamruhr, Cuv. & Val. 



Gunth.,Cat. 1, p.219.— Bleek.,Atl.Ichth.Perc.p. 13, tab 75, f. 3. 



''Daburu" of the natives. 



''Bright crimson all over." (Goldie.) 



32. Ambassis macracanthus, Bleek. 

 Gunth., Cat. 1, p. 227.— Bleek., Perc. p. 30. 



Dr. Bleeker, who originally described this fish in his " Fishes 

 of Batavia," subsequently, in his *' Atl. Ichth. Perc," makes it a 

 synonym of Ambassis Cemmersonii. I am disposed to think that 

 he was right in the first instance. 



33. Apogon sangiei^sis, Bleek. 



Gunth., Cat. 1, p. 235.— Journ. Mus. Godef. Heft. 2, p. 20. 

 Amiasangiemis, Bleek., Atl. Ichth. Perc. p. 95, tab 41, f. 4. 



31. Apogon zosterophorus, Bleek. 

 Gunth., Cat. 1, p. 245. — Amia zosterophora, Bleek., Atl. Ichth. 

 Perc. p. 103, tab 35, f. 2. 



35. Apogon leptaoanthus, Bleek. 

 Gunth., Cat. 1, p. 222. — Amia leptacanthus, Bleek., Atl. Ichth. 

 Perc. p. 97, tab 71, f. 3. 



