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c. Adult : skeleton. India. Old Collection, as Perca gohiokles. 



d. Half-grown. Sandwich Islands. Presented by the Zoological 



Society. 



e. Adult : stiiiFed. Red Sea. 



/. Adult : stuffed. He de France. 



g. Adult : stuffed. From the Collection of the Zoological Society, 

 as Cirrhites ar miliar is. 



Skeleton. — The skeleton of this species is very similar to that 

 of Cirrhites forsteri ; it differs only by a much lower occipital 

 crest, and by the posterior extremity of the fi'ontal bones being 

 more convex. 



4. Cirrhitichthys oxycephaliis. 



Cirrhites oxj'cephalus, Bleeher, Amhoina, vi. p. 408. 

 D. 1^. A. I-. L. lat. 40. 



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The length of the head is one-fourth of the total ; the snout is a 

 little shorter than the eye. Prseorbital without any denticulations. 

 The fourth and fifth dorsal spines are longest, and li or 1^ ia the 

 height of the body ; the fii'st dorsal ray produced into a filament. 

 Six simple pectoral rays, the longest of which reaches to the anal ; 

 the second anal spine strong, and longer than the longest of the 

 dorsal. Rose-coloiu'ed : body with five oblique cross-bands, and 

 with spots between the bands ; head with two transverse bands. {Bl.) 



Sea of Amboyna. 



a. Young. 



5. Cirrhitichthys aureus. 



Cirrhites aureus, Temm. 4- Schleg. Faun. Japon. Poi^s. p. 15. pi. 7. f. 2. 



D. 'X A. I-. L. lat. 43. L. transv. 5/10. 

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Six simple pectoral rays, the longest of which reach beyond the 

 origin of the anal ; the first dorsal ray elongate. Uniform orange- 

 coloured. 



Chinese and Japanese Seas. 



a. Adidt. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



3. OXYCIRRHITES. 



Oxycin'hites, Sleek. Act. Soc. Scient. Indo-Nederl. ii. Amboina, p. 39. 



The five lower pectoral rays are simple ; dorsal with ten spines. 

 VUliform teeth in both the jaws, without canines ; teeth on the 

 vomer ; none on the palatine bones. The intermaxillary bones well 

 developed and much produced, denticulated on the descending and 

 ascending processes. Prasoperculum denticulated ; operculum spini- 

 ferous. Scales cycloid, of moderate size. Six branchiostegals. 



Seas of Ambojma and He de France. 



