9^4 PEBCID^. 



fishes to be identical, but for the coloration, which is said to be taken, 

 in the figures of both the fishes, from Ufe. Schlegel has established 

 a separate genus, Caprodon, for this fish, having found five branchio- 

 stegaJs only, and no teeth on the palate ; but as we are informed by 

 him that these characters are taken from a mounted specimen, 

 I have no doubt that the condition of the fish is either imperfect, 

 or does not admit of a proper examination. 



12. Anthias longimamis. (Plate VII. fig. B.) 



E. 7. D. ^;. A. |. L. lat. 65. 



The height of the body is 4|- in the total length. Caudahs forked, 

 but the pectoral only elongate, one-fourth of the total length ; head 

 entirely scaly ; fins covered with scales on their greater par Vo- 

 merine teeth in a quadi'angular patch. 



a. Stuffed. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



Description of the specimen. — This fish resembles Serramis rasor 

 of Richardson, and the Caprodon of the ' Fauna Japoiiica,' with 

 regard to the scahness and the number of rays ; but differs by its 

 much more elongated body and the arrangement of the vomerine 

 teeth. In the middle third of the fish the height of the body is 

 nearly equal, and is contained 42- in the total ; the length of the 

 head is ii in the total ; it is covered with scales all over. The eye 

 is placed high up, but not interfeiing vnth the upper outline of the 

 head ; it leaves a space below it deeper than its horizontal diameter, 

 which is larger than one-fourth of the length of the head : the vertical 

 diameter is much shorter than the horizontal. The muz 'le is shortej 

 than the eye. The nostrils of one side are close togeth r, one before 

 the other. The intermaxillaries are rather feeble and t lin, and they 

 have a triangular process in the middle of their posterior margin. 

 The maxillaries widen from their origin and form a nearly regular 

 triangle, covered with small scales ; the lower jaw projects slightly 

 beyond the upper. When the mouth is closed, the maxillary reaches 

 to the second third of the orbit. The infraorbital arch is entirely 

 covered with scales ; no denticulations are visible on the pra3orbital. 

 The interspace between the eyes is convex, and equals the diameter 

 of the eye. 



The operculum is armed with two fiat prominent spines, the lower 

 of which is much smaller ; the sub- and inter- operculum are entire. 

 There is no scaleless space on the praeoperculum ; its angle is rounded 

 and very finely serrated, like the posterior limb and a part of the 

 inferior. The suprascapula shows several denticulations. 



The dorsal Jin is elongate, but very low, the scales reaching over 

 two-thirds of its height ; it is more distant from the occiput than 

 from the root of the caudal. The, posterior spines and the anterior 

 rays are nearly equal in height; the spines of moderate strength. 

 The caxulalfin is shghtly forked, and partly covered with scales ; the 

 lobes appear to be equal in length, and about one-sixth of the total. 



