230 PEECID^. 



2. With seven spines in the first dorsal. 



a. Body without longitudinal or transverse bands. 



21. A. nigripinnis, 24. A. macidosus, 28. A. cupreus, 



22. A. taenioptenis, 25. A. euneastigma, 29. A. hoevenii, 



23. A. monochrous, 26. A. riippellii, 30. A. truncatus. 



27. A. novae guinete, 



6. Body with darker ti-ansverse bands or oblong transverse spots. 



31. A. bifasciatiis, 33. A. bandanensis, 34. A. annularis, 



32. A. timoriensis, 35. A. lineatus. 



c. Body with longitudinal bauds. 



36. A. quacb-ifasciatiis, 40. A. frenatus, 45. A. midtitaeniatus, 



37. A. semilineatus, 41. A. kallopterus, 46. A. hartzfeldii, 



38. A. chrysopomus, 42. A. fasciatus, 47. A. chrysotsenia, 



39. A. kalosoma, 43. A. cyanosouia, 48. A. victorise. 



44. A. cyanotsenia, 



3. With eight spines in the first dorsal. 



49. A. melas, 50. A. cantoris. 



4. With nine spines in the first dorsal. 



51. A. nieaco. 

 B. Apogon with more than ten soft rays in the anal fin. 



52. A. lineolatus, 54. A. maeropterus, 57. A. buruensis, 



53. A. fucatus, 55. A. bleekeri, 58. A. zosterophorus. 



56. A. macropteroides, 



A. Apogon with less than ten soft raya in the anal fin. 

 1. D. 6. I -i-. A. 



8 or 9' ■ 7 or 8 (in one species 9)' 



a. Body without longitudinal or transverse bands. 



1. Apogon imberbis. 



Corvulus, Gesner, p. 1273. 



Mullus imberbis sive Itex mullorum, Willughhj, p. 286 ; Ray, p. 91. 



Trig-la, sp. 3, Artedt, Genera, p. 43. 



Amia, Gronov. Zooph. p. 80. pi. 9. f. 2 (omitted in his system). 



Midlus imberbis, Linn. Si/st. Nat. xiii. edit. 1. sp. 1341 ; S/iaw, Zool. 



iv. p. 618. 

 Apogon ruber, Lacep. iii. p. 411 ; Risso, Icldh. Nice, edit. 1. p. 214. 

 Dipterodou hcxaeanthus, Lacep. iv. p. 167, iii. pi. 4. f. 2. 

 Centi'opomus auratus, Lacep. iv. p. 273. 



rubens, Sjmiola, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. x. p. 370. pi. 28. f. 2. 



Perca pusilla, De la Roche, Ann. 3Lis. Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 318. 

 Apogon rex mullorum, Cm: >.y Val. ii. p. 143 ; Cuv. Regne Anim. HI. 



pi. 7. f. 2 (not good) ; Guichen. Exiylor. Alger. Poiss. p. 32. 



A black blotch on eacli side of the tail. Bright red or orange- 

 coloured ill Hfc, with minute black points ; fins not spotted. 

 Mediterranean; Madeira. 



a. Adult. Europe. 



h. Adult ; skeleton. Europe. 



