200 PERCiDJi;. 



length of the head. Praeoperciilum serrated, slightly emarginate, 

 and mth stronger denticulations at the angle. Candahs truncated. 

 Uniform cherry-red. 



Seas of Java and Ceylon ; Coast of Coromandel ; Malayan Peninsula. 



a. Skin, twenty inches long. Ceylon. CoUcctedby E. F. Kelaart, M.D. 



21, Mesoprion madras. 



Cuv. 8f Vul. vii. p. 446 ; Bkekcr, Pcrc. p. 44. 

 D. f^. A.|. L. lat. 55. 



The height of the body is 3f in the total length, the length of the 

 head 3i ; the diameter of the eye is 31 in the latter. Prfeopercidum 

 serrated, not notched. Caudahs truncated, the fourth dorsal spine 

 longest, all being slender. Reddish, with reddish-brown longitu- 

 dinal streaks ; fins yeUow. {BI.) 



Seychelles ; Batavia. 



b. Witli a large black lateral blotch. 



22. Mesoprion johnii. 



Rctiard, Pom. i. t. 31. f. 172 ; Eiissell, t. 97. 



Anthias johnii, Block, t. 318. 



Spams tranquebavicus, Sliaw, Zool. iv. p. 471. 



? Coius catus, Buck. Ham. Gamj. Fish. p. 90. pi. 38. f. 30. 



Mesoprion unimaculatus, Qiioi/ Sf Gaim. Zool. Fn-ijc. p. 304; Cuv. *§• 



Val. ii. p. 441 ; Bhrhr, Pcrc. p. 42 ; Richards. I'chth. Chitia, p. 229 ; 



Quoij ^- Gaim. J'o;/. dc VAtitrol. Poiss. p. 665. pi. 5. f. 3. 

 johnii, Cuv. ^- Val. ii. p. 443; Cantor, Catal. p. 13. 



D.i^. A.|. L. lat. 48. 



The height of the body is 3|^ in the total length, and nearly equal 

 to the length of the head. Notch of prffioperculum and knob of in- 

 teropercidiun conspicuous ; proeoperculum with finer denticulations 

 above, and with coarser ones beneath the notch ; the upper maxillaiy 

 bone reaching to below the anterior half of the eye. CaudaUs slightly 

 emarginate, pectorals not reaching to the front end of the anal fin ; 

 the third, fourth and fifth dorsal spines longest ; the second of the 

 anal stronger than the third, but nearly equal in length. Yellowish 

 olive (in a chicd state), with indistinct oblique streaks above the 

 lateral line and longitudinal ones beneath ; a large oval black spot on 

 the lateral line, extending over the scales of about the 23rd-28th 

 transverse lines. 



Indian Ocean ; China Sea ; Malay Archipelago ; Coast of Australia ; 

 Pacific. 



a. Half-grown : not good state. From the Haslar Collection. 



h. Half-grown, Old Collection. 



c, cl. Young. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



e. Adult : stuffed : not good state. Sine patria. Old Collection. 



