378 PRISTIPOMATID^. 



from the head to the caudal fin ; dorsal fin with three waved, green- 

 ish-yellow longitudinal stripes. 



Sea of Bulucomba (Celebes). Louisiade Archipelago. 



a-d. Adult and half-grown : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago. Voy- 

 age of the Rattlesnake (in 30 fathoms). 



14. Synagris japonicus. 



Sparus japonicus, Bloch, t. 277. f. 1. 



Dentex blochii, Sleeker, Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Indie, 1851, p. 176. 



B. 6. D. ^. A. |. L. lat. 45. 



The height of the body is 4 or 3| in the total length, and nearly 

 equal to the length of the head ; the diameter of the eye is 3-3J in 

 the latter, and rather longer than the snout ; the height of the prse- 

 orbital is about one -half of the diameter of the eye ; there are three 

 series of scales between the praeorbital and the angle of the prteoper- 

 culum. Eight or ten canine teeth in the upper jaw, none in the 

 lower. The spines of the fins slender ; the posterior ones of the 

 dorsal longer, 2f in the height of the body ; the third anal sprue iu- 

 termediate iu length between the second spine and the first ray. 

 Caudalis deeply forked, with the upper lobe longer, and sometimes 

 produced into a short filament. Reddish \iolet, mth seven or eight 

 golden longitudinal bands; a ferruginous spot on the operculum; 

 dorsal fin yellow-edged, caudal red. (Bl.) 



Sea of Batavia. 



15. Syna^s filamentosus. 



Cantharus filamentosus, Eiij)]}. Atl. Fische, p. 50. pi. 12. f. 3 (not 



Dentex filamentosus, Cuv. i|- Val.). 

 Dentex bipunctatiis, (UJircuben/) Cuv. ^- Val. vi. p. 247. 

 tambiilus, Cui: i^- Val. vi'. pp. 249, 558 (not Sparus japonicus, 



Block) ; R'upp.N. W. Fische, t^. 114; Bleek. Verhand.Bat. Genootsch. 



xxiii. Spar. p. 12. 



D. ^. A. y, Ca)c. pylor. 4. 



The height of the body is three times in the total length (without 

 caudal), the length of the head 3|. The snout is longer than the 

 eye. The posterior spines of the dorsal fin longest, one-third of the 

 height of the body ; caudalis deeply forked ; in adult specimens 

 (males ?) the upper lobe prolonged into a filament nearly as long as 

 the fin, and the ventrals elongate, about one-fourth of the total length. 

 Reddish ; two yellow streaks along the beUy. 



Red Sea ; Coast of Pondicheny. 



16. Ssraagris nemurus. 

 Dentex nemurus, Bleek. Act. Soc. Nederl. ii., Amboina, p. 49. 

 B. 6. D. ^. A. '|. L. lat. 50. 

 The height of the body is 4^ in the total length (without caudal 



