p 



37. MESOl'KION. 201 



/. Half-gTowii : skin : not good state. Port Essington. Presented 



by the Earl of Derby. 

 g. Yoimg : not good state. N.W. Australia. Presented by Sir J. 



llichardson. 

 h. Half-grown : stnifed. Pacific. Voyage of the Eattlesnako. 

 i. Half-gro^vn : sldn. China. From Mr. Warmck's CoUoction. 

 Ic, I. Adult. China. 



m-o. Young. Madras. Presented by J. C. Jerdon, Esq. 

 p. Young. Macassar. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 

 q. Half-gro-\vn : stuffed. Cape Sea. Presented by Sir A. Smith, 

 r. Adidt : stuffed. 



23. Mesoprion fuscescens. 



Mesoprion fuscescens, Cur. i^j- Val. vi. p. 538; Bleeke); Batjan, ii. p. 197. 

 hoteen, Richards. Ichthyol. China, p. 229. 



D.|^. A.|. L. lat. 50. 



The height of the body is 8|- in the total length, and equal to the 

 length of the head ; the diameter of the eye is 41 in the latter ; the 

 ujjper profile of the head is straight, of the neck slightly concave. 

 JaM'S nearly equal, the upper maxillary bone reaching to below the 

 anterior lialf of the eye. Praeoperculum serrated, with a conspicuous 

 notch behind and with stronger denticulations beneath. Caudalis 

 emarginate ; the fifth dorsal spine longest ; the second and third anal 

 spines nearly equal in length. Olive, each scale darker at the base : 

 a large black blotch on the lateral Hne, below the middle of the soft 

 dorsal fin ; pectorals with a bro-miish spot at the base. 



Fresh M^aters of Celebes and Batjan. 



I refer to this species both the specimens upon which Dr. Richard- 

 son foimded the species M. hoteen^ as all the details of Bleeker's de- 

 scription of M. fuscescens may be applied to them. 



a. Adult : stuffed. Chiaa. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



h. Half-grown : stirffed. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



24. Mesoprion fulviflamma. 



Scifena fidvifiamma, Forsk. p. 45. 



Perca fulviHamma, Bl. Schneid. p. 28. 



Ceutroponuis liober, Lucep. iv. p. 255. 



Diaeope fiulvitlanima, Cm: Rkpie Anitn. ; Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 72. 



t. 19. f. 2, and N. W. Fische,' -p. 94; Ctw.^ Val. ii. p. 423. 

 Mesoprit)!! mouostigma, Cur. ^ Val. ii. p. 446 (not Bleek.). 

 fidviHamma, Bleek. Amh. ii. p. 553. 



D. j5. A. |. L. lat. 50. Ca)c. pylor. 5. 



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

 of the head 'i\ ; the diameter of the eye onc-foui'th of the length of 

 the head. Jaws etjaal, the upper maxillary l)one reaching nearly to 

 below tlie middle of the eye. Pra^opercidum indistinctly notclicd, the 

 denticidations becoming graduallv stronger at the angle : no luiob on 



