94 PEKCID^. 



fishes to be identical, but for the coloratiou, which is said to be taken, 

 in the figiu'es of both the fishes, from Ufe. Schlegel has established 

 a separate genus, Caprodon, for this fish, having found five branchio- 

 stegals only, and no teeth on the palate ; but as we are informed by 

 him that these characters are taken from a mounted specimen, 

 I have no doubt that the condition of the fish is either imperfect, 

 or does not admit of a proper examination. 



12. Anthias longimanus. (Plate YII. fig. B.) 



B. 7. D. f^. K.\. L. lat. 65. 



The height of the body is 4-| in the total length. CaudaUs forked, 

 but the pectoral only elongate, one-foiu'th of the total length ; head 

 entirely scaly ; fins covered ^vith scales on their greater par Vo- 

 merine teeth in a quadi'angular patch. 



a. Stuffed. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



Description of the specimen. — This fish resembles Serranus rasor 

 of Eichardson, and the Capjrodon of the ' Fauna Japonica,' with 

 regard to the scaliness and the number of rays ; but differs by its 

 much more elongated body and the arrangement of the vomerine 

 teeth. In the middle thii'd of the fish the height of the body is 

 nearly equal, and is contained 4^ in the total ; the length of the 

 head is 4i in the total ; it is covered ^vith scales all over. The eye 

 is placed high up, but not interfering with the upper outline of the 

 head ; it leaves a space below it deeper than its horizontal diameter, 

 which is larger than one-fourth of the length of the head ; the vertical 

 diameter is much shorter than the horizontal. The muzzle is shorter 

 than the eye. The nostrils of one side are close together, one before 

 the other. The intermaxillaries are rather feeble and thin, and they 

 have a triangular process in the middle of their posterior margin. 

 The maxillaries -ndden from their origin and fonn a nearly regular 

 triangle, covered with small scales ; the lower jaw ^jrojects slightly 

 beyond the upper. A\Tien the mouth is closed, the maxillaiy reaches 

 to the second thii'd of the orbit. The infraorbital arch is entirely 

 covered with scales ; no denticidations are visible on the praeorbital. 

 The interspace between the eyes is convex, and equals the diameter 

 of the eye. 



The operctdum is armed with two flat prominent spines, the lower 

 of which is much smaller ; the sub- and inter-opcrculum are entire. 

 There is no scaleless space on the praoperculum ; its angle is rounded 

 and very finely serrated, Hkc the posterior limb and a part of the 

 inferior. The suprascapula shows several denticulations. 



The dorsal Jill is elongate, but very low, the scales reaching over 

 two-thirds of its height ; it is more distant from the occiput than 

 from the root of the caudal. The posterior spines and the anterior 

 rays are nearly equal in height ; the spines of moderate strength. 

 The caudal Jin is sHghtly forked, and partly covered \\-ith scales; the 

 lobes appear to be equal in length, and about one-sixth of the total. 



