130 TEISLID^. 



darker. There is a large dark-brown blotch between the fifth and 



eighth dorsal spines. 



inches, lines. 



Total length 12 



Height of the body 3 7 



Length of the head 3 2 



Width between the orbits 6| 



Diameter of the eye 7 



Length of the tirst dorsal spine 6^ 



of the foui'th dorsal spine 1 6 



of the fifteenth dorsal spine 11 1 



of the third dorsal ray 1 7 



of the caudal 2 3 



of the third anal spine 1 3 



of the first anal ray 1 10 



3. Centropogon fuscovirens. 



? Apistus fuscovirens, Qiiorj 8f Gaim. Voy. Astrol. Poiss. p. 695. pi. 11. 



f. 5 ; Cuv. 8f Val. iv. p. 409. 

 A-pistus fuscovirens, Sleeker, Amhoinn ^ Ceram, p. 269. 



B. 7. D. ^. A. \. 



Scales small. The cleft of the mouth is very slightly oblique ; the 

 jaws are nearly equal in front ; the maxillary bone reaches to below 

 the anterior half of the orbit. The dorsal begins above the eye ; the 

 second and thii'd spines are the longest ; the ventral fins reach to the 

 anal ; the third anal spine longer than the preceding ones. Brown- 

 ish, spotted with darker ; a large black blotch between the fifth and 

 ninth dorsal spines. (5?.) 



Seas of Amboyna and Ceram. 



4. Centropogon leucoprosopon. 



Apistus leucoprosopos, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. i. Amh. p. 35. 

 B. 6. D. ^. A. |. 



Scales very small. The second dorsal spine is the longest ; the 

 third of the anal fin longer tha^ the preceding ones. The upper 

 maxillary reaches to below the anterior half of the orbit. Brownish- 

 yellow, dotted with darker ; snout, forehead and anterior part of the 

 eyr white ; cheeks variegated with whitish ; caudal with a broad red- 

 dish-yellow cross-bar. Palatine teeth. {Bl.) 



Sea of Amboyna. 



12. APISTUS*. 



Apistus, sp., Cuv. (^ Val iv. p. 391. 



Polemiug, Kaup in Wiegm. Archiv Naturg. 1858, p. 333. 



Head and body compressed, covered with ctenoid scales of rather 

 small size. Several bones of the head, and especially the pra3orbital, 



» 1. Scorpsena carinata, Bl. Schn. p. 193. — Apistus carinatus, Cuv. 4' ^^"^l- iv. 

 p. 395. — Tranquebar. 



