5. EQUEs. 279 



nating on the operele in a large steel-blue spot ; nape with a broader 

 black band running obliquely downwards to the origia of the lateral 

 line ; the first dorsal blackish. Adult paler, with the bands incon- 

 spicuous, but with obhque streaks on the back. 

 Vizagapatam. Indian Seas. China Seas ? 



a-c. Half-grown : skins. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's 

 Collection. 



15. Umbrina macroptera. 

 Sleeker, Sumatra, ii. p. 12. 



D. 10|^. A.|. L. lat. 48. 



Barbel not half as long as the width of the orbit. The height of 

 the body is nearly equal to the length of the head, and about 4|- in 

 the total ; the diameter of the eye is 4 to 4| in the length of the 

 head. Praeoperculum rounded, distinctly denticulated. The pectoral 

 fins longer than the ventrals ; caudalis rhomboidal. Grey, densely 

 covered with minute black dots. 



Sea of Priaman (Sumatra). 



5. EaUES. 



Eques, £1. Schn. p. 105 ; Cut: i^- Vol. v. p. 163. 



Body oblong, with the nape and the first dorsal elevated ; the 

 upper jaw overlapping the lower ; eye moderate. Two dorsals : the 

 first very elevated, with the number of spines variable (10-16), the 

 anal spines feeble ; the second dorsal very long, and covered with 

 thin scales, like the caudal. Scales moderate. Air-bladder without 

 appendages. Pyloric caeca in small number. Pseudobranchiae. 



Atlantic coasts of Tropical America. 



1. Eques lanceolatus. 



Edwards, pi. 210 (fig. media), cop. by Duhamel, Peches, ii. pi. 7. f. 9 ; 



Parra, pi. 2. f. 2. 

 Chsetodon lanceolatus, L. Gm. p. 1254. 

 Eques americanus, Bl. taf. 347. f. 1 ; Bl. Schn. p. 105. 

 balteatus, Cm\ §• Val. v. p. 165 ; Cuv. R^qne Anim. III. Poiss. 



pi. 29. f. 2. 

 Sciaena edwardi, Grmiov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 53. 

 lanceolatus, Casteln. Anim. nouv. ou 7-a)-es de rAvier. du Sud, p. 10. 



D. 16 I ^. A. ^. L. lat. 60. Ctec. pylor. 4. Vert. 10/15. 



The first dorsal as high as the body below. Grejish-yeUow, with 

 three broad blackish-brown bands, edged with whitish : the fijrst, 

 vertical, from the crown thi-ough the eye to the angle of the mouth ; 

 the second, sHghtly arched, from the nape over the operele to the base 

 of the ventral ; the third, curved, from the top of the first dorsal, 

 along the middle of the side of the body to the root of the caudal fin. 



Caribbean Sea. 

 a. Adidt. America. 



