28 BERTCIDiE. 



upper maxillary reaches far behind the middle of the eye, and is 

 denticulated beneath. Suboperculum not notched. Pectoral reach- 

 ing a little beyond the ventral, to the level of the fifteenth scale of 

 the lateral line ; the third anal spine much stronger and also longer 

 than the fourth. Eed ; the front edges of the soft dorsal, of anal, 

 and of ventrals, and the upper and lovrer edges of the caudal, pure 

 white. GiU-opening and a spot in the arm-pit brownish black. 

 8eas of Isle de France, Boeroe. 



a. Adult. Mauritius. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



14. Myripristis lima. 



Cm: (§• Val. vii. p. 493 ; Rkjne Anitn. III. Puiss. pi. 14. f. 2. 

 D. 11 1 i. A. :!. V. 1/7. L. lat. 46-47. 



The height of the body is equal to the length of the head, and 

 one-third of the total ; the interspace between the eyes is one-sixth 

 only of the length of the head. The lower jaw has a horizontal 

 direction, and not an oblique one, as in the other species of Myri- 

 2iristis. Operculum with three or four distinct points at the angle. 

 Caudal not deeply forked, with rounded lobes. Uniform red. ( Val.) 



Sea of Isle of France. 



8. HOLOCENTRUM*. 



HolocentiTim, Artedi in Seba, iii. tab. 27. f. 1 ; Cuv. ^- Val. iii. p. 182. 

 Coniiger, Ayuss. in Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 121. 



Muzzle moderate, nearly horizontal ; jaws equal in front, or the 

 lower shghtly prominent ; eye large. VUlifornj teeth in both the 

 jaws, on the vomer and on the palatine bones. Eight branchiostegals. 

 Opercular bones and suborbitals serrated ; operculum with two spines, 

 a large spine at the angle of praeopcrculum. Scales moderate, ctenoid. 

 Two dorsals, scarcely united ; ventrals with seven rays. Caudal 

 forked ; anal with four spines, the third veiy long and strong. 

 S^nm-bladd(!r simple, oval. Pyloric appendages in increased number. 



Tropical Seas of both hemispheres. 



1. Holocentmm longipinne. 



Jaquaraca, i^/«m/r. p. 147; Lichtenst.Ahhandl. Berl.Acad. 1820, p. 279. 

 Cuteshy, Hist. Nat. Carol, ii. pi. 2. f. 2. 

 Matejuels, Parra, p. 23. pi. 13. f. 2. 



* 1 Perca aBcensionis, {Linn.) Oshecl; Reise nack China, p. 388.— Amphacan- 

 tlius ascensionis, Bl. Schn. \>. 210. — Lutjanus ascen.sionis, Lacip. iv. 

 p. 107. — Holocentrum ascensionis, Cuv. <J- Val. iii. p. 212. — Ascension 

 Island. 



2. Holocentrum argentcuni, Cuv. ^- Val. vii. p. 502; Voy. AstroL, Poiss. 



]). (577. pi. 14. f. 2. — New Guinea. 



3. Holocentrum marianiim, Cuv. cj- Val. iii. p. 219. — Martinique. 



4. Holocentrum konoides, liUck. Tcrc. p. f)4. — Celebes. 



5. Holocentrum binolatuni, Blcck. Gnram. p. 207. — Gorani. 



