96 PERCID.B. 



One dorsal with eleven spines, the anal fin with thi-ee. Operculum 

 with two or three points ; prEeoperculum serrated. Scales small, 

 ctenoid. 



From the Seychelles to the Molucca Sea. 



1. Anyperodon leucogrammicus. 



Renard, Poiss. t. 1. f. G ; Valeiit. iii. p. 476. f. 409. 

 Sen-anus leucogrammicus, (Heinw.) Cuv. Sf Val. ii. p. 347; Bleeker, 

 Fere. p. 33. 



D. '^. A. J. L. lat. 80. 



The height of the body is one-foui-th of the total length, the 

 length of the head one-tliii'd ; the diameter of the eye is one-seventh 

 of the latter. Operculum with three spines, prEeoperculimi finely 

 and equally serrated ; sub- and inter-operculum with denticulations. 

 Caudalis roimded. Brownish, with three whitish longitudinal 

 bands, and with brown spots above. 



Seychelles ; Molucca Sea. 



a. Adult. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



25. PEIONODES. 



Prionodes, Jenyns, Zool. Beuyle, Fishes, p. 46. 



Body oblong; muzzle with the lower jaw prominent. Canine 

 teeth ; no teeth on the vomer or the palatine bones. Seven bran- 

 chiostegals. One dorsal with ten, the anal fin with three spines. 

 Praeopercid-um serrated ; operculum with two or three spines. Scales 

 moderate, ctenoid. 



The form of this fish, as the Rev. L. Jenjms has pointed out, is so 

 completely that of a Sei-ranns, that we may well hesitate to refer 

 it to another family (Scieenido'). One specimen only being known, 

 it is possible either that the absence of vomeiine teeth is acci- 

 dental in that specimen, or dependent on the age of the fish. But 

 if this be not the case, the stnictiu-e of the fins and of the opercles 

 is as important a character as the absence or presence of a patch of 

 minute teeth, and therefore I think it better to place this fish in 

 the group of Serranina. 



1 . Prionodes fasciatus. 



Jenyns, I. c. p. 47. pi. 9. f. 1. 



J) l^ A ^ 



V. -. A. y. 



Brownish, vnth numerous dusky cross-bars ; the vertical fins with 

 black ocellated spots. The posterior Umb of the praeoperculum 

 serrated. 



Chatham Island (Galapagos Archipelago). 



