NO. 1351. SCORPJ^NOID FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDA N AND ST A RKS. 151 



II, 9. Ventral rays I, 5. Pectoral tins moderate, the lower ray free. 

 Small tishes of the East Indies. 



[iroorit-mliioo^ a Hindu name g-iven by Russell.) 



a. T.o\ver i)re(>i)ercular spiiu^ tniiicate; ventral^ r('acliiii<^ front of anal ; caudal with 



2 broad, ilark l)ars adumsi, 41. 



an. Lower preopercular spine hooked hackward; vciitrals .scarcely rea<'hing vent; 

 caudal with irregular bars eclilgonias, 42. 



41. MINOUS ADAMSI " Richardson. 



OKOZE. 



Minotis adamM RicnAunsoN, Voy. Samarang, 1850, p. 7, i)l. 11, figs. 4, 5; 8ea of 

 China. 



Head (exclusive of projecting lower jaw) 2| in length without 

 caudal; depth 3. Dorsal X, 11; anal 11 or 12. P^ye-lin head; maxil- 

 lary 2i 



Lower jaw strongly projecting and entering into the upper profile. 

 Teeth in narrow bands on jaws in two widely separated patches on 

 vomer. Maxillary extending to below front margin of pupil. Inter- 

 or])ital wide and concave, having a pair of ridges with a channel 

 between, along which runs a slight median ridge which divides and 

 diverges posteriorly; interorbital width 1\ in length of orbit. 



Preorbital with a long sharp posterior spine which reaches nearh^ or 

 quite to end of maxillary, and a small spine in front pointing down- 

 ward. Preopercle with 6 spines, the upper one short and triangular, 

 directed slightly upward; the next below by far the longest and very 

 sharp, reaching to edge of opercle; the two next l)elow short and 

 rather blunt, and the lower two directed downward and truncate at 

 their tips. Bones of head, where the}^ appear, eveiywhere rough and 

 deeply sculptured; the suborbitals are wide, rough, bony l)ucklers bear- 

 ing a prominent but blunt ridge, a transverse depression on top of 

 head behind eye separating the postorbital from the interorbital 

 region. Parietals produced in wide, blunt, rough ridges, Avhich end 

 behind in blunt spines. A similar ridge on side of head behind ej^e 

 extending out on post-temporal and ending in a spine. Post-tem- 

 porals apparently firmly joined to cranium. Nasals ending above in 



"The following is the synonymy of tlie closely related Indian species, Mhioui, 

 vumodactiilua (Blocli and Schneider): 

 Scorpivna monodactyla Blocit and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. li<4. 

 Afitioitx iiionodactylus Cuviek and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 182i», p. 



424, pi. Lix, fig. 2.— GiTNTiiER, Cat. Fish, II, 1860, p. 148; IMadra-s, Borneo, 



China. — Bi.eekek, Ac. Sci. Roy. Amst., 187(5, p. 04; Java, r.orneo, Ce]el)es, 



I>anka, Singapore, Sumatra, Pinang. 

 Apistmt mhioas Cuvier, Regne Auim.,2d ed., 1828, after Russell. 

 ^fi)lnHs iroora Cuvirk and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Ptiiss., IV, 182VI, j>. 421; 



India (Woora-minoo of Russell). 

 Corythohatus woora Cantor, Cat., 1S.">0, p. 4ri; Malay rcninsula. 



