12. APISTTT3. 131 



armed. One dorsal with fifteen spines, the anal with three ; one 

 pectoral filament; pectoral elongate (organ for flying). Villiform 

 teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones. Air-bladder 

 present. A cleft behind the fourth gUl. 

 Ked Sea ; East Indian Seas. 



It wiU bo necessary to divide the genus Apistus, as given by 

 Cuvier ; and I propose the following arrangement : — 



A. With a cleft behind the fourth gill. 

 I. With a pectoral appendage. 



a. Body scaly : Apistus. 



b. Body naked : Minous. 



n. Without a pectoral appendage : Pentaroge. 



B. Without a cleft behind the fom'th gill. 

 I. With distinct scales : Centropogon. 

 n. W^ith rudimentaiy or without scales. 



a. The spinous dorsal fin with a shoi-ter anterior division : Proso- 



PODASYS. 



b. The spinous dorsal fin contiguous, without any division : Te- 



TEAROGE. 



1. Apistus alatus. 



RusseM, ii. p. 45. pi. 160. B. 



Apistus alatus, Cuv. &,• Val. iv. p. 392 ; Bleeh. Natuwh. Tydschr. Nederl. 



Indie, 1851, p. 174 ; Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 49. 

 Polemius alatus, Kaup in Wiegm. Archiv, 1858, p. 3.33. 



D.H. A.f 



Body scaly ; one detached pectoral ray ; pectoral elongate, reaching 

 to the root of the caudal ; dorsal fin contiguous, but with a notch 

 between the spinous and soft portion. Nape of the neck whitish 

 (in spirits) ; pectoral and anal blackish ; the spinous dorsal with a 

 large black blotch between the eighth and twelfth spines, the soft 

 portion with three oblique blackish streaks. 



East Indian Seas. 



a, h. Adult. Madras. Presented by T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



2. Apistus israelitarum. 



Apistus israelitarum, {Ekrenhg.) Cut. ^- Val. iv. p. 396. 



D.f A.f 



Body scaly ; one detached pectoral ray ; j>ectorals elongate. A 

 black blotch between the tenth and eleventh dorsal spines ; the soft 

 dorsal and the anal without bands. {Cuv.) 



Red Sea. 



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