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1. Myriodon waigiensis. 



Scoi-pfena waigiensis, Quoy Sf Gaim. Voy. Freyc. Znol. p. 324. pi. 58. f. 1. 

 Centropnste.s scoi-pasuoides, Cur. ^- Val. iii. p. 48; Richards. Ann. 8f 



May. Nat. Hist. 1842, vol. ix. p. 120. 

 M'STiodon soorppenoules, Bris. de liarnev. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 130; 



Bleeker, Riouw. p. 480. 



D. ^. A. |. L. lat. 42. L. transv. 8/17. Vert. 9/16. 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length and equal 

 the length of the head ; the diameter of the eye is one-third of 

 the latter. On each side between the two nasal openings a short 

 membranaceoiLs appendage. Prseoperciilum with three or four spi- 

 nous teeth beneath, dii-ected forward ; operculum with a single spine. 

 Caudalis veiy slightly emarginate ; the second spine of the anal very 

 long and strong. Greyish, marbled with grey and brown. 

 Riouw ; Waigiou ; Port Essington. 



a. Adult. Port Essington. Presented by J. Gould, Esq. 



h. Adult : injm-ed. Port Essington. From the Haslar Collection. 



c. Adult : stuffed. Port Es.sington. 



d. Young : diicd. Freycinet's Harbour. Voyage of H.M.S. 



Herald. 



e. Half-gro-\^Ti. Australia. Presented by 8ii' .1. Richardson. 

 /. Adult: skeleton. Australia. From the Haslar Collection. 

 (J. Adult. Purchased of Mi'. Brandt. 



A good description of the skeleton is given by Sir J. Richardson, 

 /. c. p. 12.5. 



36. GENYOROGE*. 



Diacope, sp., C'la: Reyne Anim. ; Cuv. 8f Val. ii. p. 410; Riipp. Atlas, 



p. 70. 

 Mesoprion, sp., Bleeker. 

 Genj'oroge, Cantor, Catal. p. 12. 



Seven branchiostegals. Teeth \"illiform, with canines in both 

 jaws ; teeth on the palatine bones ; tongue smooth. One dorsal 

 with ten or eleven, rarely with more spines ; the anal lin with three. 

 Operculum with two or three points ; above the angle of praeoper- 

 culum a deep notch, as deep as broad, recei\'ing a more or less 

 spinous knob of the interoperculum. Scales moderate. 



From the Red Sea through aU the sea-s of the Indian region ex- 

 tending into the Pacific. 



* 1. Diacope duodecim-lineata, Cuv. <^- Val. vi. p. 529. — Isle de France. 



2. rufolineata, Cuv. cj- Val. \i. p. 531. — Xew Guinea. 



3. axillaris, Cuv. ^- Val. \i. p. 532. — East Indies. 



4. flavipes, Cuv. ^- Val. vi. p. 534. — Vanicolo. 



6. analis, Cuv. cf- Val. vi. p. 534. — Isle de France. 



6. aurantiaca, Cuv. cj- Val. vi. p. 5.3G. — Vanicolo. 



7. sangiiinea, Cuv. ^- Val. ii. p. 437. — Red Sea. 



8. vitianus, Hombr. ^- Jacq. Voy. ait Pole Sud, Poi&s. p. 37. pi. 2. f. 2. 



— Polvnesia. 



