244 PEECID.E. 



punctiilated with brown, with two indistinct brownish cross-bands ; 

 a black spot at tho middle of the base of the soft dorsal fin. 

 Riouw. 



4. With nine spines in the first dorsal. 

 51. Apogon meaco. 



Sparus meaco, Lacep. iv. pp. 54 & 160. 

 Apogon meaco, Cuv. ^- Val. ii. p. 161. 



Caudal fin rounded ; six white bands and a brown spot on the tail ; 

 fins brown-spotted. 

 Hah. ? 



B. Apogon with more than ten soft rays in the analis. (The first dorsal 

 fin with six spines.) 



52. Apogon lineolatus. 



Renard, fol. 40. p. 204. 



Apogon lineolatus, (Uhre/ib.) Cuv. 8f Val. ii. p. 160 ; R'dppell, Atlas, 

 Fische, p. 47. t. 12. f. 1, and N. W, Fische, p. 85. 



Anal with fourteen soft rays ; whitish (in spirits), with twelve 

 blackish transverse lines ; a black blotch on the tail. 

 Red Sea. 



53. Apogon fucatus. 

 Cantor, Catal. p. 4. 



Anal with sixteen soft rays ; caudal slightly forked. The upper 

 maxillary bone nearly reachiiig to the front of the anterior margin of 

 the orbit. The lower part of the fi'ont edge of the second dorsal 

 spine is armed with three blunt teeth, vertically situated ; the 

 second, third and fourth spines are of nearly equal length. From the 

 lower part of the orbit to the muzzle a gamboge oblique line ; at 

 the base of the caudal a large round black spot ; fins not spotted. 

 {Cant.) 



Sea of Pinang. 



Cantor states that this species has no pyloric appendages. 

 54. Apogon macropterus. 



Apogon macropterus, {Kuld 8,- van Ilasselt) Cuv. 6)- Val. ii. p. 160. 

 ? Apogon ceylonicus, Cuv. c^ Val. iii. p. 491. 



Anal with tliirteen soft rays. AVhitish (in spirits) ; on each scale 

 a vertical line, formed by minute brown points; fins not spotted. 

 (Cuv.) 



Javanese Sea. 



It wiU be diflicult to determine specimens belonging to this spe- 

 cies, the description of Cuvier being very imperfect. Biit the following 

 species, referred by Bleeker to A. macropterus, appears to be distinct, 



