508 CABANGID^. 



interocular space is convex, and equal in width to the orbit. Colo- 

 ration uniform ; sometimes with a black opercular spot. 

 East Indian Seas. 



a. Half-grown. Madras. Presented by T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



b. Half-grown : skin : bad state. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. 



Cantor's Collection. 



c. Half-grown : bad state. Sumatra. 



d. Adult. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



e. Half-grown. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



Second Group. KURTINA. 



One dorsal fin only, much shorter than the anal. 



26. PEMPHERIS. 

 Pempheris, Cue. 9- Val. vii. p. 290. 



Body compressed, oblong ; eye large ; cleft of the mouth obli(jue, 

 with the lower jaw prominent ; snout very short. One short dorsal 

 with the formula 6 9, not scaly. Anal elongate, scaly, with three 

 spines. Scales of moderate size, or rather small. Villiform teeth 

 in the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones. Seven branchio- 

 stegals ; air-bladder divided into an anterior and posterior portion. 

 Pyloric appendages in moderate number. 



Indian Ocean and Archipelago ; tropical parts of the Pacific. 



1. Pempheris compressus. 



Sparus compressus, White, Journ. Voy. N, S. Wales, App. p. 207. 

 pi. .f.2. 



D.A. A.^. L.lat.68. 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length ; caudalis 

 t;marginato. Coloration uniform. 

 Australian Seas. 



a. Adult : skin. Swan River. Voyage of H.M.S. Fly. 



h, c. Adult and half-grown : skins. Port Jackson. Purchased of 



J. Gould, Esq. 

 d. HaK-gro%vn : skin. Australia. Purchased of Mr. Wai'wick. 

 e-h. Adult and half-grown : ^»ad state. From the Haslar Collection. 



2. Pempheris otaitensis. 



? Pempheris oualensis, Cur. Sf Val. vii. p. 299; Less. Voy. Coq. Zvul. 



Poiss. p. 108; Bkeker, Banda, i. p. 242. 

 Pemplieris otaitensis, Ctiv. (if- Val. vii. p. ;504. pi. 191 ; Less. I. c. p. 107. 



D.e/9. A.^. L.lat. 55-65. C^ec. pylor.'6-7. Vert. 10/14. 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length ; caudal 



