23. EQTTULA. 501 



exceedingly small. A black blotch on the spinous dorsal, and a 

 blackish transverse spot on the nape of the neck. 

 Seas of China and Japan. 



a, b. Adult. China. 



c. Half-gi'o-mi. China. 



d. Half-grown : very bad state. China, Presented by J. R. Reeves, 



Esq. 



e. Half-grown. Chiaa. 

 /. Young. Chiaa. 



g. Young. Amoy (China). Purchased. 



7. Equula bindoides. 



Bleeker, Makreel. p. 372, and Verhaml. Bafar. Genoofsch. xxiv. 3Iakr. 

 p. 83. 



B. 4. D.^. A.-?-. 



10 14-15 



The height of the body is 2^-2^ in the total length, the length 

 of the head 4|. A pair of spines above the anterior margin of the 

 orbit; the lower prsopercular limb serrated. The inferior profile 

 is more convex than the supei'ior. Scales very small, but conspi- 

 cuous ; the lateral line terminates on the taU. The height of the 

 second dorsal spine is one-third of that of the body. The spinous 

 dorsal with an orange-coloured, brown-edged spot at the top ; back 

 with irregular dark spots. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



a, h. Adult : bad state. Borneo. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



c. Half-grown : bad state. Moluccas. Pxu'chased of Mr. Frank. 



cL Yoimg. Singapore. 



8. Equula splendens. 



Goomorah karah, Bi/sseU, i. p. 48. pi. 61. 



Equula spleudens, Cut: Regne Anim. ; Cantor, Catal. p. 149. 



gomorah, C>a: ^- Val. x. p. 80 ; B^ippeU, N. W. Fische, p. 51 ; 



Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. 3Iakr. p. 82. 

 cabaUa, Bleck. Oost-Java (not Cuv. ^- Val). 



D. fr. A. ^. Vert. 10/14. 



The height of the body is 2|-2| in the total length, the length 

 of the head four times. The upper profile is much more convex 

 than the lower. A pair of small spines above the anterior margin 

 of the orbit ; the cavity on the head is about tAvice as long as broad. 

 The lower prieopercular margin is finely serrated, and its length is 

 1| in that of the mandibula ; the mandibula is slightly concave, and 

 ascends at an angle of about 35°. The length of the second dorsal 

 sjiine is three-quarters of that of the head. Scales small. A black 

 blotch on the spinous dorsal. 



Red Sea ; East Indian Seas. 

 a. Half-grown : skin. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's Col- 

 lection. 



