150 TRIGLIB^, 



with a broad groove. Greyirih-broAVTi, marbled with brown and 

 powdered with white ; the interior margin of the jjectoral spotted 

 with blackish. 

 He de France. 



a. Adidt. 



2. Pelor cuvieri. 



Pelor cuvieri, Gray, III. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 20. f. 2 ; Richards. Ichthi/ol. 

 Sulpk. p. 72. pi. "39. f. 4, and IcUhyol. China, p. 212 ; Bleeker, Su- 

 matra, ii. p. 252. 



? Pelor sinense, Cuv. ^ Val. ix. p. 468. 



D. 3 I ^. A. 13. 



None of the upper pectoral rays produced. The diameter of the 

 eye is 3-3^ in the width of the intcrocular space, which is broad 

 and slightly concave ; cheek mthout groove. The length of the 

 snout is one-half that of the head. Brownish, marbled with darker, 

 and puiictulated with bluish. 



Seas of China and Sumatra. 



a. Adult. India. Presented by General Hardwicke. — Type of the 



species. 



h. Adult. China. Presented by J. E. Eeeves, Esq. 



c. Young. China. Presented by Sii' John Eichardson. 



3. Pelor maculatum. 



Cuv. 4- Val. iv. p. 434 ; Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. Pois.s. p. 210. pi. 20. 

 D.3|- 



None of the upper pectoral rays produced. Blackish, variegated 

 with black. Three white blotches on the dorsal fin and three on 

 the back ; eye with a white ring ; head with round white spots ; 

 pectoral black, with a white cross-band ; caudal with two black and 

 two white bands. (Cuv.) 



Sea of Waigiou. 



4. Pelor didactylum. 



Scorprena didactyla, Pall. Spicil. Zool. vii. p. 26. t. 4. 



Trigla rubicimda, Hornst. Ni/a Handl. ix. p. 45. t. 3. 



Synanceia didactyla et rubicimda, Bl. Schn. pp. 195, 196. 



Pelor obscurum, Cuv. S; Val. iv. p. 436; Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. p. 211, 



Poiss. pi. 21. f. 2 (not good) ; Bleekei; Ceram, iii. p. 241. 

 Scoi-paBna digitata, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 117. 



D. 3 I ^. A. 12. 



None of the pectoral rays produced. The interocular space very 

 concave ; cheek with a groove. Brown, dotted with white ; the 

 dorsal fin with oblique yellow bands ; pectoral with a broad yellow 

 cross-band, its interior surface black, with a yellow band and yellow 

 spots ; the caudal with two yellow cross-bands. 



New Ireland ; Ceram. 



