362' PHISTIPOMATID.?:. 



head 4| ; the diameter of the eye is 2| in the latter, and longer 

 than the snout. The prseorbital is one-third as high as the eye, and 

 armed with a strong slender spine and some denticulations beneath. 

 PrBcoperculum with the posterior limb strongly serrated and scarcely 

 emarginate. Caudalis forked ; the second anal spine much longer 

 and stronger than the thiixl, even longer than the soft portion of the 

 fin. Above dark violet ; a yellow cross-band between the eyes ; three 

 bluish longitudinal bands — the first along the middle of the neck to 

 the dorsal fin, the second from the crown to the base of the soft 

 dorsal, the third from the eye to the end of the dorsal ; a white lon- 

 gitudinal band from the snout, below the eye, to the caudal. A black 

 spot on the anterior part of the spinous dorsal. (Bl.) 

 Sea of Solor. 



16. Scolopsis ghanam. 



Scifena ghauani, Forsk. p. 50. 



Holocentrus ghanam, Lacej). iv. p. 347. 



Scolopsis lineatus, Itiqjj}. Atl. Fische, p. 7. pi. 2. f. 1, and A'. W. Fische, 



p. 126. 

 Scolopsides ghanam, Cuv. >§• Val. v. p. 348. 



D. ^. A.y. L. lat. 48. L. transv. 4/14. Csc. pylor. 3. 



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

 head four times ; the diameter of the eye is 3|- in the latter, and 

 much longer than the snout, or the interspace between the eyes. The 

 infraorbital arch with one flat spine of moderate length ; the spini- 

 ferous plate slightly denticulated, and not elevated. Praeoperculum 

 with a notch above the angle. Spines of the fins slender ; the third 

 of the anal longer and not thinner than the second. Caudalis slightly 

 forked. The lateral hne angularly curved below the fourth dorsal 

 spine, and steeply descencUng behind the end of the dorsal fin. On 

 each side four whitish lines : the first from above the anterior angle 

 of the orbit to the end of the dorsal ; the second from the supra- 

 scapula above, and following the lateral line to the back of the tail ; 

 the third from the posterior upper angle of the orbit below, and fol- 

 lownng the lateral line, lost on the posterior thii'd of the body ; the 

 fourth, shortest, from the posterior lower angle of the orbit, lost above 

 the base of the pectoral. 



Eed Sea. 



n. Adult. 

 h. Adult. 



17. Scolopsis pectinatus. 



Scolopsides pectinatus, ( Ktthl S,- v. Hass. ) Cm: ^- Val. v. p. 346. 

 D.^. A.f. 



Praeorbital narrow, with a veiy acute spine and without other den- 

 ticulations ; prseopcrcidum with the angle projecting backwards. 

 Yellowish, indistinctly spotted ; fins immaculate. (Cav.) 



Sea of Java. 



