7. SCI^ENA. 2t)] 



e. Adult : skin. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 /, g. Half-gro\\ai and young : skins. Malayan Peninsula. From 



Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 h. Adult : stuffed. Calcutta. From the Collection of the East India 



Company. 



12. Sciaena maculata. 



Hussell, pi. 12-3. 



Johnius maculatus, Bl. Schn. p. 75 (not Cant). 



Corvina maculata, Cm: Sf Val. v. p. 126. 



D.10|^. A.|. 



The upper jaw overlapping the lower, with an external scries of 

 larger teeth. Praeoperculum distinctly denticulated. Caudahs rhom- 

 boidal. Back with five brown or black cross-bars, sometimes in- 

 terrupted and forming dark iiTcgular blotches. 



Tranquebar; Pondicheriy ; Malabar. 



The fish described by Cantor {Catal. p. 68) as J. maculatus ? var., 

 appears to be an entirely different species, near Corvina aJhida. The 

 British Museum possesses a skin of a young specimen from Dr. Can- 

 tor's Collection, but I am unable to decide the question from this 

 specimen alone. 



13. ScisBna macrophthalmus. 



Otolithus macrophthalmus, Bkeher, Java, i. p. 99, and Verhand. Batav. 

 Genootsch. xxiii. SciiBii. p. 16. 



D. 10 1 -^. A. -?-. L. lat. 50-55. 



I 23-24 7 



The height of the body is 3| in the total length, and equals the 

 length of the head ; the snout is obtuse, and equals the diameter of 

 the eye, wliich is one-fourth of the length of the head. Two small 

 canine teeth in the upper jaw, none in the lower. Prseoperculum 

 denticulated in young individuals. CaudalLs truncated ; coloration 

 imiform. (Bl.) 



Seas of Batavia, Bantam, Samarang, and Pasuruan. 



14. Sciaena aquila. 



2Klaiva, Aristot. Hist. Aiiim. viii. cap. 19. 



Umbra, Salnan. fol. 115 a; Bellon. pp. 117 & 119. 



? Latus, Peis-rei, RoiuM. p. 1.35. 



Maigi'e, Poisson royal, Duham. Peches, ii. sect. 6. p. 137. pi. 1. f. 3. 



Cheilodipterus aquila, Lacep. v. p. 68.5. 



Labrus hololepidotus, Lacep. iii. p. 517. pi. 21. f. 2. 



Scisena umbra. Cur. Mem. Mus. i.p. 1, and Bepie Anim.; Bonap. Faun. 



Ital. Pesci, pi. . f. 1. 

 Perca vauloo, Bisso, Ichth. Nice, edit. 1. p. 298. pi. 9. f. 30. 

 Scisena aquila, Risso, I. c. edit. 2. iii. p. 411; Cuv. Sf Val. v. p. 28. 



pi. 100; Neill in Edinh. New Phil. Juuni. 1826, p. 135; Flcni. Brit. 



Anim. p. 213 ; Paru. Fishe.<; Frith of Forth, p. 40 ; Yarrell, Brit. 



Fishes,^. 104; Cuv. Bec/ne Anim. III. Poiss. ^1.27. t l(not Rosenthal). 



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