366 PRISTIP0MATID.5:. 



6. Heterognathodon microdon. 



Bleeker, Batav. p. 464. 



B. 5. D. ^. A. |. L. lat. 48. 



The height of the body is 4i in the total length, the length of the 

 head 4f . The snout is conical, shorter than the diameter of the 

 eye, wliich is one-third of the length of the head. Prseorbital 

 scaleless ; margin of pi-a3opercnlnm scaly. Caudalis forked. Rose- 

 coloiu-ed ; a yellow band from the snout through the eye to the 

 caudal fin. 



Seas of Bata\'ia and Amboyna ; Louisiade Archipelago. 



a. Adult. ^Amboj-na. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 h. Half-grown : stuffed. Louisiade Aix-hipelago. Presented by the 

 Lords of the Admiralty. 



15. DENTEX*. 



Dentex, sp., Cnv. Regne Anim. ; Cuv. Sf Val. ^. p. 212. 



Form of the body oblong, rather elevated ; eye moderate ; cleft of 

 the mouth more or less horizontal, ■with the jaws nearly equal. One 

 continuous dorsal, with the numbers varying between j^l^j^; in 

 the anal between -^ ; caudalis more or less forked. Generally strong 

 canines in both the jaws. Pra)orbital entire, broad ; distance between 

 the eye and the cleft of the mouth great ; prajoperculum entire, with 

 more than three series of scales ; operculum without prominent spine. 

 Six branchiostegals. Scales moderate, ctenoid. Pseudobranchiae. 

 Swim-bladder ^^^th a notch posteriorly. Pyloric appendages in small 

 number. 



Mediterranean ; Atlantic ; Red Sea ; Sunda Sea ; Japanese Sea. 



1. Dentex vulgaris. 



SufaypiV, Ivvohov^, Aristot. ii. 0. 13, 15, viii. c. 2, 13, ix. c. 2. 



Dentex, Colum. viii. c. 16. 



'S.vvobovs, JElian, i. c. 46. 



SjTiagris, Sah: p. Ill ; Rondel, v. c. 19. p. 150. : ' ' ,- 



Sparus, no. 5, Artedi, Genera, p. 36. 



, no. 6, Artedi, Synon. p. 59. , .' .' ; 



* 1. Labnis macrocephalus, Lacep. iii. p. 480. pi. 26. f. 1. — Dentex macroce- 

 phalus, C««'. # Val. vi. p. 232 ; Cnv. BegncAnim. III. Pom. pi. 35. f. 2.— 

 Hab. ? — Probably a species of Pagrus. 



2. Dentex gobioides, (Solander) Cur. ^- Val. vi. p. 2.34. — OtaheiH. 



3. Labrus tliimbergii, Lacep. iv. p. 4G7. — Dentex thimbergii, Cuv. ^- Val. 



vi. p. 237. — Japan. 



4. Sparus cynodon, Block, taf. 278. — Cichla cynodon, Bl. Sckn. p. 338. — 



Dentex cynodon, Cuv. ^- Val. vi. p. 239.— Hab. ? 



5. Dentex rivulatus, Benn. Proc. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 91 (not Eiipp.). — Trebizond. 

 G. waigiensis, Quoy ^- Gaim. Voy. Frcyc. Zool. p. 302. — Appears to be 



some Percoid fish. 



