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and seven soft riiys ; the former is slender, and as long as the thii'd 

 anal spine ; of the rays the third is longest, equal to the height of 

 the body, and reaching to the level of the twenty-third scale of the 

 lateral line. 



The scales are finely seiTated. 



The coloration appears to have been red, with longitudinal bands 

 of a dusky colour. 



inches, lines. 



Total length 9 2| 



Height of the body 2 6i 



Length of the head 2 Gk 



Interspace between the eyes 4f 



Length of opercular spine 3 



of pra3opercular spine 5 



— — of foiu'th dorsal spine 1 3 



of last dorsal spine 5-i- 



of third anal spine 1 3^ 



of fourth anal spine 1 



of first anal ray 1 6^ 



of ventral spine 1 3^ 



of third ventral ray 2 Oy 



4. Holocentnim pcecilopterum. 



Bleekcr, Kohos-Eilandcn, p. 350. 



D. ll|i. A. J. L. lat. 52. 



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

 head 3i-3f . Operculum with two strong s])ines, the lower of which 

 is smallest. The upper maxillary bone reaches to behind the middle 

 of the eye. The fourth and fifth dorsal spines long(\st ; the soft 

 dorsal fin is less than half as high as the body ; the length of the 

 caudal is 5^ in the total, the upper lobe is loiiger ; the third anal 

 spine very thick, and nearly U\\vo, as long as the longest of the dorsal 

 fin ; ventral fins not verj- much longer than the pectorals, lied, with 

 lighter longitudinal bands ; the first dorsal yellow, •u'ith two longi- 

 tudinal series of large round rose-coloured spots. {Bl.) 



Sea of Cocos Island. 



5. Holocentnim erythraenm. (Plate V.) 



B. U I 15. A. j^. L. lat. 48. L. transv. 3/6. 



The height of the body is nearly equal to the length of the 

 head, and 3i in the total ; the interspace between the eyes is 5i- 

 in the length of the head. The upper maxillary bone reaches to 

 below the middle of the eye ; jaws equal in front ; the groove for 

 the processes of the intermaxillaries is slightlj- longer than the 

 diameter of tlie eye ; turbinal bone terminating in a bony anterior 

 process, slightly forked, but not covering the intermaxillary. The 



