7. SCIiKNA. 291 



e. Adult: Kkiii. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 /, <j. Half-f^rown and young : sskins. Malayan Peninsula. From 



Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 7i. Adult : stuffed. Calcutta. From the Collection of the East India 



Company. 



12. Sciaena maculata. 

 Russell, pi. 123. 



Jolmiiis maculatus, Jil. Schu. p. 75 (not Cant.) 

 Corvina maculata, Cm: Sf Vol. v. p. 126. 



D. 10|1. A.|. 



The upper jaw overlai)ping the lower, with an external .series ot 

 larger teeth. Pra!(>})erculum distinctly denticulated. CaudaKs rhom- 

 boidal. Back with five broAvn or black cross-bftrs, sometimes in- 

 terrupted and forming dark irregular blotr-hes 



Tranquebar; PondicheiTy; Malabar. 



The fish described by Cantor (Cata?. p. 08) as J.maculatus? var., 

 appears to be an entirely different species, near Curvhia alhlda. The 

 British Museum possesses a skin of a young specimen from Dr. Can- 

 tor's Collection, but I am unable to decide the question from this 

 specimen alone 



13. Sciaena macrophtlialmus. 



Otolithus macrophthahuus, Blecker, Java, i. \i. IM), and Verhatid. Batav. 

 Genootuch. xxiii. Scucn. p. W. 



D. 10 1 j^,. A. y. L. lat. 50-55. 



The height of the body is 3| in the total length, and equals the 

 length of the head ; the snout i« obtuse, and equals the diameter of 

 the eye, which is one-fourth of the length of the head. Two small 

 canine teeth in the upper jaw, none in the lower. Pra)operculun) 

 denticulated in young individuals. CaudalLs truncated ; coloration 

 uniform. (Bl.) 



Seas of Batavia, Bantam, Samarang, and Pasuruan. 



14. ScisBiia aquila. 



2Klaiva, Aristot. Hist. Anim. viii. cap. 19. 



Umbra, Salvian. fol. 115 wj liellon. pp- 117 & 111). 



? Latus, Peis-rei, R(mdel. p. 135. 



Maigre, Poisson royal, Duham. Pecliea, ii. sect. 0, ]). 137. pi. 1. f. 3. 



Cheilodipterus aquila, Lacep. v. p. 085. 



Labi'us hololepidotus, Lacep. iii. p. 517. pi. 21. f. 2. 



Sciajna umbra, Cuv. Mem. Mus. i.p. 1, and Rcijne Anim.; Bonap. Faun. 



Ital. Pesci, pi. . f. 1. 

 Perca vanloo, Risso, IcJdh. Nice, edit. 1. p. 298. pi. 9. f. 30. 

 Sciaena aquila, Risso, I. c. tjdit. 2. iii. p. 411; Cur. Si- Val.v. p. 28. 



pi. 100; Neill in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 1820, p. 135 ; mem. Brit. 



Anim. p. 213 ; Parn. Fishes Frith of Forth, p. 40 ; Yurrell, Brit. 



Fishes, yt. 104; Cuv. Regne Anim. III. Poiss.^\.27.i. l(not 'Rosenthal). 



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