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44. APOQON. 237 



Description. — The height of the body is 3| to 3 times in the total 

 length, the length of the head 3i to 3^. The diameter of the eye is 

 about one-third of the length of the head, and much longer than the 

 distance between the eyes ; the upper maxiUary bone reaches a little 

 behind the vertical from the centre of the eye ; the outer edge of 

 the praeoperculum is minutely serrated and the angle rounded ; the 

 inner edge is entire ; operculum with a very short spine. D. 7 1 -^ ; 

 the third and fourth spines are the longest and equal, about half the 

 height of the body ; the spine of the soft dorsal is not much shorter, 

 and the middle rays longer, than the third spine of the first dorsal. 

 Caudahs slightly emarginate, with rounded lobes. A. — ^ ; the 

 second spine is three-quarters of the longest of the dorsal ; the 

 pectoral fins reach as far backwards as the ventrals. L. lat. 26. 

 L. transv. -1. All the teeth minute, in narrow viUiform bands ; that 

 of the vomer rectangularly bent. Length 3 inches 9 lines. 



27. Apogon novae guineae. 



? Apogon vinosus, Cuv. fy Val. vi. p. 494. 



Apogon novffi guineae, Valcnc. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1832, p. 53. pi. 4. 

 f f . 1 ; Blcekcr, Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Indie, vii. p. 316. 

 ^' modestus, Bleeker, I. c. p. 315. 



Body and fins yellowish, head sprinkled with brown. Caudalis 

 very slightly notched ; suprascapula, sub- and interoperculum entire ; 

 the upper maxillary bone reaching a little behind the middle of the 

 eye ; the fourth dorsal spine longest. L. lat. 24-25. L. transv. 8-9. 



Sea of Anjer (Java) ; Batavia ; New Guinea. 



a, h. Large specimens : very bad state. India. From the Haslar 



Collection. 

 c. Large specimen : very bad sta,te. Norfolk Island. From the 



Haslar Collection. 



28. Apogon cuprous. 



Apogon cupreus, {Ehrenberg) Cuv. 6r Val. ii. p. 159. 

 ? Apogon chrysosoma, Sleeker, Amb. S,- Cer. p. 266. 



Caudalis forked. Uniform reddish brown ; fins not spotted. 

 Red Sea. 



29. Apogon hoevenii. 



Bleeker, Amboina, V. p. 483. 



CaudaHs forked. Red (in life) ; two obsolete darker streaks below 

 the eye ; the first dorsal fiji blackish, the interspace between the sixth 

 and seventh spines black. 



Amboyna Sea. 



30. Apogon truncatus. 

 Bleeker, Java, i. p. 415. 



Tlie upper maxillary bone reaching behind the level of the eve ; 



