200 PEIICID^. 



length of the head. Praeopcrculum serrated, slightly emarginate, 

 and with stronger denticulations at the angle. Caudalis tnincated. 

 Uniform cherrj'-rcd. 



Seas of Java and Ceylon ; Coast of Coromandel ; Malayan Peninsula. 



a. Skin, twenty inches long. Ceylon. Collected by E. F. Kelaart, M.D. 



21. Mesoprion madras. 

 Cuv, 8f Val. vii. p. 44(5 ; Sleeker, Perc. p, 44. 



D. -. A. -. L. lat. 55. 



13 8 



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

 head 3^ ; the diameter of the eye is 3^ in the latter. Praeopcrculum 

 serrated, not notched. Caudalis truncated, the fourth dorsal spine 

 longest, all being slender, lleddish, with reddish-brown longitu- 

 dinal streaks ; fins yellow. {BJ.) 



Seychelles; Batavia. 



b. With a large black lateral blotch. 



22. Mesoprion johnii. 



Renard, Poiss. i. t. 31. f. 172 ; Russell, t. 97. 



Anthias johnii, Block, t. 318. 



Sparus tranquebaricus, Slia'io, Zool. iv. p. 471. 



? Coins catus, Buck. Ham. Gang. Fish. p. 90. pi. 38. f. 30. 



Mesoprion imimaculatus, Quoy 8f Gaini. Zool. Freyc. p. 304 ; Cuv. 8f 



Val. ii. p. 441 ; Bleeker, Perc. p. 42 ; Richards. Ichth. China, p. 229 ; 



Quoy Sf Gaim. Voy. de F Astral. Poiss. p. 065. pi. 5. f. 3. 

 johnii, Cuv. ^ Val. ii. p. 443 ; Cantor, Catal. p. 13. 



D.|5. A.|. L. lat. 48. 



The height of the body is 3^ in the total length, and nearly equal 

 to the length of the head. Notch of proeoperculum and knob of in- 

 teroperculum conspicuous ; proeoperculum with finer denticulations 

 above, and with coarser ones beneath the notch ; the upper maxillary 

 bone reaching to below the antcinor half of the eye. Caudalis slightly 

 emarginate, pectorals not reacliing to the front end of the anal fin ; 

 the third, fourth and fifth dorsal spines longest ; the second of the 

 anal stronger than the third, but nearly equal in length. Yellowish 

 olive (in a dried state), vnth indistinct oblique streaks above the 

 lateral line and longitudinal ones beneath ; a large oval black spot on 

 the lateral line, extending over the scales of about the 23rd-28th 

 transverse lines. 



Indian Ocean ; China Sea ; Malay Archipelago ; Coast of Australia ; 

 Pacific. 



a. Half-grown : not good state. From the Haslar Collection. 



b. Half-grown, Old Collection. 



c. d. Young. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



t. Adult : stuffed : not good state. Sine patria. Old Collection. 



