4. PRisTiroMA. 289 



G. Pristipoma nigrum. 



Pristipoma nigrum, (Mertem) Cue. ^- Val. v. p. 258 ; Caut. CataL p. 74. 



B.7. D.l|. A.f 



The height of the hody is three times in the total length, the 

 length of the head 8| ; 03'e one-third of the latter. Blackish hrown. 

 Sea of Pinang ; Manilla. 



7. Pristipoma hasta. 



Lutjaniis hasta, Block, taf. 240. f. 1 ; Bl *>/(«. p. 324 ; LacepAv. p. 229. 

 Labrus conimersoni, Lacep. iii. pp. 4^31, 477. pi. 23. f. 1 ; Shaw, Zool. 



iv. p. 493. 

 Lutjami.s microstoma, Lacep. iii. pi. 34. f. 2, iv. pp. 181, 216. 

 Pristipoma kakaan, Cue. Sf Val. v. p. 244 ; Rilpp. N. W. Fische, p. 123. 



t. 20. f. 1 ; Richardson, Ichth. China, p. 227 ; Bleek. Verh. Bat. 



(renootsch. xxii. p. 3. 



coramersonii, Ciiv. 8f Vol. v. p. 252 ; Cant. Catal. p. 72. 



liasta, Cuv. l^- Val. v. p. 247, cop. in Belanger, Voy. Ind. Orient. 



p. 362 ; Bleek. I. c. xxiii. Scic^n. p. 20. 

 ehrysobaliou, ^Kuhl >^'- r. Hasselt) Ciiv. Sf Val. v. p. 248. 



D. H I ^. A. ^g. L. lat. 47. L. transv. 6/10. Cjec. pylor. 6. 



The height of the body is 3 to 3| in the total ; the length of the 

 head is sometimes equal to that height, sometimes less ; the snout is a 

 little longer than the width of the eye, the diameter of which is 4| 

 in the length of the head. Jaws equal ; the upper maxillary reaches 

 to the level of the anterior margin of the orbit. The posterior limb 

 of the praeoperculum emarginate, its angle rounded, produced and 

 denticulated. The fourth dorsal spine longest, longer than half the 

 length of the head ; the dorsal fins separated by a more or less deep 

 notch. Caudalis tmncated ; the second anal spine very strong, but 

 shorter than the longest of the dorsal fin* ; pectoral pointed, elon- 

 gate, its length being 8| in the total. Back and upper part of the 

 sides with brown spots, more or less regularlj- arranged, sometimes 

 forming longitudinal series, sometimes cross-bars ; both the dorsal 

 fins with two or thi-ee sciies of round brown spots. 



From the Eed 8ea along the east coast of Mrica through all the 

 Indian Seas to the northern shores of Australia. 



a. Adult: stuffed. Ilcd Sea. From the Frankfort Museum. 



h. Adult. India. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



e. Adult : .skin. India. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



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



e. Adult. China. 

 /. Adidt. China. 



g. Adult: not good state. China. 



h. Adult: stuffed. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 

 i, Half-gro\vn. China. Presented by J. R. Reeve*, Esq. 

 Je. Half-grown. China. 



* In young specimen*! the anal spine is as long as the' fourth of the doreal fin. 



