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r. Adult: skeleton. India. Old CoWeciion, as Pevcn gobiokles. 



d. Hiill'-grown. Sandwich Inlands. Presented by the Zoological 



Soeietj\ 



e. Adult: stuffed, lied Sea. 



/". Adult : stuffed. He de France. 



//. Adult: stuffed. From the Collection of the Zoological Society, 

 as Cirrliitcf! ar)iuUaf^s. 



Sl-eJctoii. — The skeleton of this species is very similar to that 

 of Cirrhitcs forsteri ; it differs only by a much lower occipital 

 crest, and bj* the posterior extremity of the frontal bones being 

 more convex. 



4. Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus. 



Cirrhites oxycephalus, Blechcr, ^imhoina, vi. p. 408. 

 D.l^. A.|. L.lat.40. 



The length of the head is one-fourth of the total ; the snout is a 

 little shorter than the eye. Praeorlntal without any denticulations. 

 The fourth and fifth dorsal spines are longest, and 1^ or 1| in the 

 height of the body ; the first dorsal ray produced into a filament. 

 Six simple pectoral rays, the longest of which reaches to the anal ; 

 the second anal spine strong, and longer than the longest of the 

 dorsal. Ilose-eoloured : body with five oblique cross-bands, and 

 with spots between the bands ; head with two transverse bands. {Bl.) 



Sea of Ambojnia. 



a. Young. 



5. Cirrhitichthys aureus. 



Cirrhites aureus, Tevuit. ^- Schler/. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 15. pi. 7. f. 2. 

 D. 1^. A. 1. L. hit. 43. L. transv. o/lO. 



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Six simple pectoral rays, the longest of which reach beyond the 

 origin of the anal ; the first dorsal ray elongate. Uniform orange- 

 coloured. 



Chinese and Japanese Seas. 



a. Adult. China. Presented by J. K. Hecves, Esq. 



3. OXYCIRRHITES. 



OxyciiThites, BlceJc. Act. Soc. Scie/if. Indo-Ncderl. ii. Amboina, p. 39, 



The five lower pectoral rays are simple ; dorsal with ten spines. 

 ViUiform teeth in both the jaws, without canines ; teeth on the 

 vomer ; none on the palatine bones. The intermaxillary bones well 

 developed and much produced, denticulated on the descending and 

 ascending processes. Prseoperculura denticulated ; operculum spini- 

 ferous. Scales cycloid, of moderate size. Six branchiostegaLs. 



Seas of Araboyna and He de France. 



