142 TRIGLID^. 



8. Prosopodasys cottoides. 



Perca cottoides, Z. Mus. Ad. Fried, ii. p. 84. 



Apistus cottoides, Cuv. ^- Vol. iv. p. 410 ; Richards. Voy, Samar. Fishes, 

 p. 4. pi. 3. f. 6, 7 (faulty); Bleek.- Batavia, p. 459. 



B. 7. D. 3 I ^. A. |. 



Scales minute, rudimentary ; the first three dorsal spines rather 

 remote firom the posterior ones. Cleft of the mouth slightly oblique, 

 wide, the uj>per maxillary reaching to the vertical from the posterior 

 margin of the eye. Body and fins with small brown spots and rings. 

 No palatine teeth. 



Seas of China, Borneo, and Java ; New Zealand. 



a. Adult. China. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 

 h. Adult. New Zealand. From the Haslar Collection. 



18. APLOACTIS*. 

 Aploactis, Temm. <§r Schleg. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 51. 



Head and body compressed, studded with small prickles ; the bones 

 of the head with obtuse protuberances, the prseorbital without spine. 

 The three anterior dorsal spines forming a more or less distinct di- 

 vision ; the remainder of the fin continuous, with eleven spines. 

 Pectoral appendages none. Teeth in the jaws and on the vomer ; 

 none on the palatine bones. Five branchiostegals. 



Seas of Japan, China, and Australia. 



1. Aploactis aspera. 



Aploactis, Te77im. ^- Schleg. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 51. pi. 22. f. 3. 

 aspera, Richards. Voy. Sulph. Fishes, p. 72. 



B. 5. D. 3 I ^. A. 12. V. 1/2. 



Uniform brown ; tins punctulated with black. The dorsal fin 

 begins behind the occiput ; the spines of the head obtuse. 

 Seas of Japan and China. 



a. Japan. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



2. Aploactis milesii. 



Richandson, Proc. Zool Soc. 1850, p. 60. pi. 1. f. 1, 2, and Ann. <§• Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1851, vii. p. 275. 



B. 5. D. ji. A. 12. V. 1/2. 



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Caudal and pectoral fins with one or two rows of white spots. 

 The dorsal fin begins between the orbits. Head with obtuse knobs 

 instead of spines. (Rich.) 



King George's Sound. 



* Aploactis pusillus, Blcek., is known to me from the " Jahresbericht'' only, 

 contained in ' Wiegmann's Archiv,' 1859. 



