508 CARANGID^. 



interocular space is convex, and equal in width to the orbit. Colo- 

 ration uniform ; sometimes with a black opercular spot. 

 East Indian Seas. 



a. Half-grown. Madras. Presented by T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



b. Half-grown : skin : bad state. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. 



Cantor's Collection. 



c. Half-grown : bad state. Sumatra. 



d. Adidt. Amboyna. Pm'chased of Mi". Frank. 



e. Half- grown. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



Second Group. KURTINA. 



One dorsal fin only, much shorter than the anal. 



26. PEMPHERIS. 



Pempheris, Chi\ 8^ Val. vii. p. 296. 



Body compressed, oblong ; eye large ; cleft of the mouth oblique, 

 with the lower jaw prominent ; snout very short. One short dorsal 

 with the formula 6/9, not scaly. Anal elongate, scaly, with three 

 spines. Scales of moderate size, or rather small. Villiform teeth 

 in the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones. Seven branchio- 

 stegals ; air-bladder divided into an anterior and posterior portion. 

 Pyloric appendages in moderate number. 



Indian Ocean and Archipelago ; tropical parts of the Pacific. 



1. Pempheris compressus. 



Sparus compressus, White, Journ. Voy. N. S. Wales, App. p. 267. 



D.A A.^. L.lat.68. 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length ; caudalis 

 emarginate. Coloration uniform. 

 Australian Seas. 



a, Adult : skin. Swan River. Voyage of H.M.S. Fly. 



h, c. Adiilt and half-grown : skins. Port Jackson. Purchased of 



J. Gould, Esq. 

 d. Half-grown : skin. AustraUa. Purchased of Mr. Warwick. 

 e-?i. Adult and half-grown : bad state. From the Haslar Collection. 



2. Pempheris otaitensis. 



? Pempheris oualensis, Cut: ^- Val. vii. p. 299 ; Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. 



Poiss. p. 168; Bleeker, Banda, i. p. 242. 

 Pempheris otaitensis, Cuv. <^- Val. vii. p. 304. pi. 191 ; Less. I. c. p. 167. 



D. 6/9. A. ~. L. lat. 55-65. Ca3c. pylor. 6-7. Vert. 10/14. 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length ; caudal 



