402 CAEANGIDiE. 



There are eleven abdominal and thirteen caudal vertebrae, the 

 length of the former portion of the vertebral column being to that of 

 the caudal as 1 : 1-17. The vertebrae are compressed in their longi- 

 tudinal diameter. The neural and haemal spines are stout. There 

 are three spurious intemeurals terminating superiorly in points di- 

 rected forwards ; they are in immediate contact with the occipital 

 crest. The anterior intemeurals are elevated and close together, the 

 posterior shorter and feeble. The first interhaemal is joined to the 

 first haemal spine, of moderate strength, and inferiorly dilated. The 

 ribs are well developed. 



7. Platax teira. 



Chffitodon teira, ^orsA;. p. 60. tab. 22 ; ^/. tab. 199. f. 1 ; Z. G'm.p.1265 ; 



Bl. Schn. p. 221 • Shaw, Zool iv. p. 346. pi. 48. 

 Russell, pi. 87. 

 Platax teira, Cut. Bigne Anim. ; Riipp. All. Fische, p. 68, and N. W. 



Fische,^^. 33, 37; Cuv.Sf Val vii. p. 226; Cantor, Catal. p. 168; 



Bleek. Verh. Bat Gen. xxiii. Ch<etod. p. 28 ; Peters, Wiegm. Arch 



1855, p. 247. 



leschenaldi, Cuv. ^ Val. vii. p. 223. 



vespertilio, Temm. ^ Schleg. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 83. pi. 43. 



T) _6_ A _i_ 



31-33* 24-27' 



Scales very small . The height of the body is more than its length * 

 (without fins) ; snout entirely obtuse, not prominent. Dorsal and 

 anal fins exceedingly elevated in immature specimens, obtuse in adult 

 ones ; the ventral fins reach beyond the caudal, in adult specimens 

 scarcely to the anal. Ventrals black ; in immature age with three 

 blackish vertical bands, one through the eye, the other over the 

 shoulder to the belly, the third from the dorsal to the anal ; the 

 bands disappear with age. 



East Indian and Chinese Seas. 



a. Half-grown. Moluccas. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 h-e. Young. Borneo. 



/. Half-grown. Coram. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 a. Half-grown. China. . 



h. Young. China. Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher, C.B. 

 {, Half-grown : stuffed. Bribe's Point. 

 Ic. Half-grown. 



l-o. Half-grown and young : skins. Sea of Pinang. From Dr. 

 Cantor's Collection. 



19. ZANCLUS. 



Zanclua, (Coinmers.) Cuv. 4* Val. vii. p. 102. 

 Body much compressed and elevated. One dorsal with seven 

 spines, the third of which is very elongate. No teeth on the palate ; 



* Bleeker states both dimensions to V>c equal. 



