184 TRIGLID.E. 



is nearly one-fourth of their diameter. The vertex, the orbit above, 

 the temple, and the infraorbital with serrated ridges ; operculum 

 ■without serrated ridge ; prseoperculum with two spinas, the upper 

 of which is much the longer ; interopercrmim ^vith two bpines, the 

 anterior pointing forwards. Lateral line smooth. Greenish rose- 

 coloured ; head irregularly spotted wdth brown ; body vnth five or six 

 cross-bands. The membrane of the spinous dorsal bro^vn ; the rays 

 of the soft dorsal spotted with brown ; the inferior part of the anal 

 violet, yellow-edged ; the lower half of the pectoral brown ; ventral 

 brown, yellow-edged ; the caudal Avith a brown cross-band on the 

 base and on the posterior half. (BJ.) 

 Sea of Batavia. 



14. Platycephalus malayanus. 

 Sleeker, Sumatra, iii. p. 498. 



D. 1 I 8 I 11. A. 12. L. lat. 60. 



The length of the head is 3| in the total, and its breadth is If in 

 its length. The width of the space between the orbits is about one- 

 half of their diameter. Spines on the upper surface of the head ; 

 superciliary ridge denticulated ; infraorbital ring with three spines ; 

 pra;operculum with two spines, the upper of which is much the longer. 

 Nostrils tentaculated. Lateral line smooth. Rose-coloured, with 

 three cross- bands, the anterior of which is the broadest, the posterior 

 the narrowest ; head and back with round lighter dots, which are 

 brown-edged on the head ; the rays of all the fins, except of the anal, 

 variegated with whitish and brownish. {BL) 



Sea of Padang. 



15. Platycephalus tentaculatus. 



P? Platycephalus longiceps, Cuv. ^ Val. iv. p. 255. 



Platycephalus tentaculatus, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 104. taf. 26. f. 2. 



D. 1 I 7 1 11. A, 11. C»c. pylor. 7. Vert. 11/16. 



The length of the head is one-thiid of the total. The ridges of the 

 head denticulated. Membranaceous tentacles above the nostril, above 

 the eye, and below the praeopcrcular spines. Prajopercular spines 

 moderate ; the upper one is the stronger. Lateral line smooth. 

 Above uniform greenish ; all the fins greenish-white, spotted with 

 darker. {Rupp.) 



Red Sea. 



16. Platycephalus nematophthalmus. 



D. 1 I 8 1 11. A. 11. L. lat. 105. 



The length of the head is 3| in the total ; the ridges of the head 

 with some small spines. A tentacle of moderate length above the 

 orbit, a singi flat one below the angle of the prasoperculum, none 

 at the nostril. Prfcopercular spines i-ather short, and of nearly 

 equal size. Lateral line smooth. Brownish (in a preserved state), 



