28 BEEYCID.E. 



upper maxillary reaches far behind the middle of the eye, and is 

 denticulated beneath. Suboperculum not notched. Pectoral reach- 

 ing a little beyond the ventral, to the level of the fifteenth scale of 

 the lateral line ; the third anal spine much stronger and also longer 

 than the fourth, lied ; the front edges of the soft dorsal, of anal, 

 and of vcutrals, and the upper and lower edges of the caudal, pure 

 white. GUI-opening and a spot in the arm-pit brownish black. 

 Seas of Isle de France, Bocroe. 



a. Adult. Mauritius. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



14. Myripristis lima. 



Cuv. Sf V(d. \\\. p. 493 ; Regne Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 14. f. 2. 

 D. 11 U. A. -i. V. 1/7. L. lat. 46-47. 



1 14 U / 



The height of the body is equal to the length of the head, and 

 one-third of the total ; the interspace between the eyes is one-sixth 

 only of the length of the head. The lower jaw has a horizontal 

 direction, and not an oblique one, as in the other sjiecies of Myri- 

 ^yristis. Operculum with three or four distinct points at the angle. 

 Caudal not deejily forked, with rounded lobes. Uniform rod. {Val.) 



Sea of Isle of France. 



8. HOLOCENTRUM*. 



Holoceutnini, Arfedi i)i Schn, iii. tab. 27. f. 1 ; Cuv. Sf Val. iii. p. 182. 

 Corniger, Agass. in Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 121. 



Muzzle moderate, nearly horizontal ; jaws equal in front, or the 

 lower shghtly prominent ; eye large. VLUiform teeth in both the 

 jaws, on the vomer and on the palatine bones. Eight brancliiostegals. 

 Opercular bones and suborbitals seixated ; oj^erculum with two spines, 

 a large spine at the angle of praeoperculum. Scales moderate, ctenoid. 

 Two dorsals, scarcely imited ; ventrals with seven rays. Caudal 

 forked ; anal with four spines, the thii-d very long and strong. 

 Sii^'im-bladdcr simple, oval. Pyloric appendages in increased number. 



Tropical Seas of both hemispheres. 



1. Holocentrum longipinne. 



Jaquaraca, i(/ff/rr/;-. p. 147; Lichtemt.Ahhandl. Bcrl.Acud. 1820, p. 279. 

 Catvshi/, Hist. Nat. Carol, ii. pi. 2. f. 2. 

 Matejuels, Parra, p. 23. pi. 13. f. 2. 



* 1 Perca ascensionis, {Linn.) OshecJc, Beise nacli China, p. 388. — Amphacan- 

 tbus ascensionis, Bl. Schn. p. 210. — Lutjanus ascensionis, Lacep. iv. 

 p. 197. — Holocentrum ascensionis, Cuv. i|- Val. iii. p. 212. — Ascension 

 Island. 



2. Holocentrum argenteiim, Cuv. 4~ Val. vii. p. 502; Voy. AstroL, Poiss. 



]). 677. pi. 14. f. 2. — New Guinea. 



3. Holocentrum marianiun, Cuv. cf- Val. iii. p. 219. — Martinique. 



4. Holocentrum Iconoides, Blrck. Pcrc. p. .54. — Celebes. 



5. Holocentrum binotatum, Bicek. Gontm. p. 207. — Gorani. 



