150 TRIGLLDJS. 



with a broad groove. Greyish-brown, marbled with brown and 

 powdered with white ; the interior margin of the pectoral spotted 

 with blackish. 

 He de France. 



a. Adult. 



2. Pelor cnvieri. 



Pelor cuvieri, Gray, III. Itid. Zool. ii. pi. 20. f. 2 ; Richards. Ichthyol. 

 Sulph. p. 72. pi. 39. f. 4, and Ichthyol. China, p. 212 ; Sleeker, Su- 

 matra, li. p. 252. 



? Pelor sineuse, Cuv. 8f Val. ix. p. 468. 



D. 3 I ^. A. 13. 



None of the upper pectoral rays produced. The diameter of the 

 eye is 3-3| in the width of the interocular space, which is broad 

 and slightly concave ; cheek without groove. The length of the 

 snout is one-half that of the head. Brownish, marbled with darker, 

 and punctulated with bluish. 



Seas of China and Smnatra. 



a. Adult. India. Presented by General Hardwicke. — Type of the 



species. 



h. Adult. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



c. Young, China. Presented by Sir John Richardson. 



3. Pelor maculatum. 



Cuv. 4- Val. iv. p. 434; Less. Voy. Cog. Zool. Poiss. p. 210. pi. 20. 

 D.3|f. 



None of the upper pectoral raj\s produced. Blackish, variegated 

 with black. Three white blotches on the dorsal fin and three on 

 the Ijack ; eye with a white ring ; head with round white spots ; 

 pectoral black, with a white cross-band ; caudal with two black and 

 two white bands. (6W.) 



Sea of Waigiou. 



4. Pelor didactylum. 



Scorpsena didactyla, Pall. Spidl. Zool. vii. p. 26. t. 4. 



Trigla nibicunda, Hornst. Nya Handl. ix. p. 45. t. 8. 



SjTianceia didactyla et rubicund a, Bl. Schn. pp. 195, 196. 



Pelor obscuruni, Cuv. ^- Val. iv. p. 436; Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. p. 211, 



Poiss. pi. 21. f. 2 (not good) ; Bleeker, Ceram, iii. p. 241. 

 Scoi-paeua digitata, Gronov. Syst. cd. Gray, p. 117. 



D. 3|^. A. 12. 



None of the pectoral rays produced. The interocular space very 

 concave ; cheek with a groove. Brown, dotted with white ; the 

 dorsal fin with oblique yellow bands ; pectoral with a broad yeUow 

 cross-band, its interior surface black, with a yellow band and yellow 

 spots ; the caudal with two yellow cross-bands. 



N£'W Ireland ; Ceram. 



