216 LABEID^. 



disposed in oblique or transverse series ; dorsal and base of the pec- 

 toral without large blackish spot. 



East Indian Archipelago. Waigiou. 

 a, b. Half-grown and young. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 c. Adult. Moluccas. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



9. CaUyodon molucceusis. 



Callyodon waigiensis, Bleek. JBanda, i. p. 256. 



moluccensis, Bleek. Atl. Iclith. p. 12. tab. 2. fig. 1. 



Conical teeth within the front series of the upper jaw. The dorsal 

 scales extend slightly on the base of the fin. OUve (in a preserved 

 state), finely marbled with brown and yeUow; a brownish blotch 

 across the back, in front of the dorsal ; vertical fins with reticulated 

 lines ; a black blotch between the second and third dorsal spines ; 

 base of the pectoral black. 



East Indian Archipelago. New Hebrides. 

 a-h. Stuffed. Aneiteum. From Mr. MacgiUivray's Collection. 



41. CALLYODONTICHTHYS. 



Callyodontichtliys, Bleek. Versl. en Mededeel. Akad. Wetensch. Anisterd. 

 Natuurk. xii. 1861, Scar. p. 2. 



The lower jaw projecting beyond the upper; a single series of 

 scales on the cheek ; dorsal spines stiff, pungent ; the upper lip double 

 only posteriorly ; teeth of the upper jaw soldered together, those of 

 the lower distinct, disposed in oblique series. The dentigerous plate 

 of the lower pharyngeal broader than long. D. ■^. A.—. L. lat. 25. 



Tropical parts of the Atlantic. 



This genus has been founded by Dr. v. Bleeker on a Scaroid fish 

 from Bahia, named Scams Jlavescens, in the Vienna Museum. I 

 thought for some time I had recognized it in some fishes with the 

 mandibulary teeth in distinct oblique series ; but these have a narrow 

 upper lij) double in its whole circuit, and are merely the young of 

 Scariis radians. 



The name of 8c. Jlavescens, proposed by Schneider for a fish figured 

 by Parra, lam. 28. fig. 4, cannot be retained for a species of the genus 

 Callyodontichthys. Parra's representations of the Scaroid fishes are 

 very faithful (much more so than the descriptions given by M. Valen- 

 ciennes), and Parra evidently represents a species with slender and 

 flexible dorsal spines, whilst Callyodontichthys has these spines 

 pungent. 



42. PSEUDOSCARUS *. 



Scarus, sp., Forsk. p. 25. 



Pseudoscarus, Bleek. Versl. Akad. Wet. Amsterd. xii. 1861, Scar. p. 3. 



The upper jaw projecting beyond the lower ; two or more series of 



* 1. Scarus cretensis, Bl. t 220. — Scarus striatus, Cuv. ^ Val. liv. p. 209. — 

 East Indies, ' [2. 



