510 CABANGID^. 



5. Pempheris schwenMi. 



Bleeker, Batoe, p. 314. 



D.f A.|. L.lat.35. 



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

 scarcely emarginate. Brownish : the dorsal with the top black, caudal 

 with brownish margins ; the anal with a black band along all the 

 base. {Bl.) 



Sea of Batu. 



6. Pempheris mexicana. 

 Cuv. 8f Vol. vii. p. 308. 



D.-. A.^. L. lat. 32. L. transv. 16. 



Reddish-brown, with yellowish fins. {Cuv.) 

 Sea of Acapulco. 



27. KURTUS. 

 Kurtus, Block, Ami. Fische, ii. p. 121 ; Cuv. 4* Val. ix. p. 419. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with exceedingly small scales ; 

 cleft of the mouth wide, oblique, with the lower jaw prominent. 

 Praeoperculum denticulated. A single dorsal, much shorter than the 

 anal, and with the spines rudimentary ; anal with two spines, joined 

 to the soft poi-tion ; ventrals well developed, between them a hori- 

 zontal, backwards-directed spine. Villiform teeth in the jaws, on 

 the vomer and the palatine bones. Branchiostegals seven ; pseudo- 

 branchiae none ; air-bladder present, enclosed by the ribs, which are 

 dilated, convex, forming rings with each other. 



East Indian Seas. 



1. Kurtus indicus. 



Kurtus indicus, Bl. tab. 169 ; L. Gin. p. 1184 ; Shatc, Zool. iv. p. 185. 



pi. 25 ; Bl. Schn. p. 163 ; Bleeker, Verhand. Batar. Genootsch. xxiv. 



MaJcr. p. 78. 

 blochii, Lac^. ii. pp. 516, 517 ; Cuv. 8f Val. ix. p. 421. pi. 277 ; 



Cuv. R^gne Anim. Ill Poiss. pi. 64. f. 2. 

 Bussell, p. "37. pi. 48. 

 Kiui^is comutus, Cuv. Sr Val. ix. p. 426. pi. 277 ; Cuv. Bigne Anim. 



m. Poiss. pi. 64. f. 1. 

 Cyrtus indicus, Cantor, Catal. p. 146. 



B.7, D.^^ A.jiH_. Vert. 8/15. 



The height of the body is 3| in the total length ; praeoperculum 

 with three or four spines at the angle. The lateral line terminates 

 below the dorsal spines ; male with a cartilaginous appendix before 

 the dorsal tin. Silvery ; a black spot near the dorsal appendix. 



East Indian Seas. 

 a. Adult. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 6, c. Adult: skins. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 d, e. Half-grown. India. Presented by G. R. Waterhouse, Esq. 

 /. Half-grown. China. From Dr. Cantor's Collection- 



