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armed. One doi-sal with fifteen spines, the anal with threo ; one 

 pectoral filament; pectoral elongate (organ for fljing). Villiform 

 teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones. Air-bladder 

 present. A cleft behind the fourth gill. 

 Red Sea ; East Indian Seas. 



It will be necessary to divide the genus Apistus, as given by 

 Cuvier ; and I propose the following arrangement : — 



A. With a cleft behind the fourth gill, 

 I. With a pectoral appendage. » 



a. Body scaly : Apistus. 

 h. Body naked : Minous. 

 n. Without a pectoral appendage : Pentaroge. 



B, Without a cleft behind the fourth gill. 

 I. With distinct scales : Centbopogon. 

 IIj With rudimentary or without scales. 



a. The spinous d orsal fin with a shorter anterior division : Pnoso- 



PODASYS, 



6, The spinous dorsal fin contiguous, without any division : Te- 



1. Apistus alatus. 



Russell, ii, p. 45. pi. IGO. B. 



Apistus alatus, Cuv. 8f Val. iv. p. 392 ; Bleek.Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. 



Indie, 1851, p. 174 ; Faun. Japon, Poiss. p. 49. 

 Polemius alatus, Kaup in Wiegm. Archiv, 1858, p. 333. 



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Body scaly ; one detached pectoral ray ; pectoral elongate, reaching 

 to the root of the caudal ; dorsal fin contiguous, but with a notch 

 between the spinous and soft portion. Fape of the neck whitish 

 (in spirits) ; pectoral and anal blackish ; the spinous dorsal with a 

 large black blotch between the eighth and twelfth spines, the soft 

 portion with three oblique blackish streaks. 



East Indian Seas, 



a, b. Adult. Madras. Pre^nted by T. C, Jerdon, Esq. 



2. Apistus israelitarmn. 



Apistus israelitarum, {Ehrenbg.) Cuv. 8f Val. iv. p. 396, 



D.i^. A.|. 



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Body scaly ; one detached pectoral ray ; pectorals elongate. A 

 black blotch between the tenth and eleventh dorsal spines ; the soft 

 dorsal and the anal without bands. {Cuv.) 



Eed Sea. 



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