36. GENYOKOGE, 18] 



10. Genyoroge notata. 



Tltissi'll, pi. 98. 



Diacope notata, Cuv. Sf Val. ii. p. 422. 



Genyoroge uotata, Cantor, Catal. p. 12. 



Back reddish brovm ; a black blotch on the lateral line (according 

 to Valenciennes, above the lateral line) ; from the orbit, above the 

 lateral line, three obliquely ascending orange lines, of which the 

 lowest reaches to the middle of the base of the dorsal rays ; beneath 

 the lateral line three or four similar parallel lines, of wliich the upper- 

 most divides the black spot ; the rest nearly straight from the oper- 

 culum towards the tail. — Young: head above and back brownish; 

 stripes of the body brown. {Cantor.) 



Sea of Pinang ; Bay of Bengal. 



Mesoprion russelUi, Bleeker, seems t(i_ be a different species, be- 

 longing to the group -with a superficial notch at the vertical margin 

 of the pneoperculuHL 



11. Genyoroge marginata. 



Diacope marginata, Cuv. ^ Val. ii. p. 425 ; Peters, Wiegm. Archivy 

 1855, p. 238. 



xanthopus, Cuv. 8^ Vol. iii. p. 495. 



Mesoprion marginatus, Bleeker, Amhoinn, ii. p. 564. 



D. i5. A. 4. L. lat. 50-55. 



Uniform yellowish (in a dried state) ; dorsal, anal, and caudal fins 

 with a black and whitish edge. The height of the body is 3^ in the 

 total length, the length of the head 3f ; the diameter of the eye is 

 one-fourth of the length of the head. Pectoral fins pointed, long, 

 reaching to the spinous part of the anal fin. Caudalis notched. 

 Louisiade Archipelago ; Amboyna ; Ceylon ; Coast of Mozambiqxie. 



a, h. Adult : skin. Ceylon. Presented by the Zoological Society. 



c. Half-grown. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Stevens. 



d. Young. Amboyna. Purchased of Mi;. Frank. 



e. f. Half-grown : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago. Presented by 



the Lords of the Admiralty. 

 ff, h. Half-grown. From the Collection of the Zoological Society, 



12. (Jenyoroge Ijottonfinsis. 



Holocentrus boutton, Lacep. iv. pp. 331, 367. 



Diacope bottonensis, Cuv. 8r Fat. li. p. 434, vi. p. 535. 



Mesoprion bottonensis, Bleeker, Natuurk. Tvdsehr. Nederl Indie, iL 



p. 170. 

 jauthinurus, Bleeker, I. c. vi. p. 52. 



^•tSs- a- I- L. lat. 65. 

 The height of tte body equals the length of the head, and is 3| in the 



