37. MESOPBION. 201 



/ Half-gi'own : skin : not good state. Port Essington. Presented 



by the Earl of Derby. 

 g. Young : not good state. N.W. Australia. Presented by Sir 



Kicbardson. 

 h. Half-grown : stuiFed. Pacific. Voyage of the Eattlesnake. 

 i. Half-grown : skin. China. From Mr. "Warwick's Collection. 

 Jc, I. Adult. China. 



m-o. Young. Madras. Presented by J. C. Jerdon, Esq. 

 p. Young. Macassar. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 

 q. Half-grown : stuffed. Cape Sea. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 

 r. Adidt : stuffed. 



23. Mesoprion fuscescens. 



Mesoprion fuscescens, Cuv. 8f Veil. vi. p. 538; Sleeker, Batjan, ii. p. 197. 

 noteen, Richards. Ichthyol, Clima, p. 229. 



D.J^. A.|. L. lat. 50. 



The height of the body is 3i in the total length, and equal to the 

 length of the head ; the diameter of the eye is 41 in the latter ; the 

 upper profile of the head is straight, of the neck slightly concave. 

 Jaws nearly equal, the upper maxUlary bone reaching to below the 

 anterior half of the eye. Prseoperciilum serrated, with a conspicuous 

 notch behind and with stronger denticulations beneath. Caudalis 

 emarginate ; the fifth dorsal spine longest ; the second and third anal 

 spines nearly equal in length. OUve, each scale darker at the base : 

 a large black blotch on the lateral Line, below the middle of the soft 

 dorsal fin ; pectorals with a brownish spot at the base. 



Fresh waters of Celebes and Batjan. 



I refer to this species both the specimens upon Avhich Dr. Richard- 

 son founded the species M. hoteen, as all the details of Bleeker's de- 

 scription of M. fuscescens may be applied to them. 



a. Adult : stuffed. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



6. Half-grown : stuff6d. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



24. Mesoprion fulviflamma. 



Scisena fulviflamma, Forsk. p. 45. 



Perca fulviflamma, Bl. Schneid. p. 28. 



Centropomus hober, Lacep. iv. p. 265. 



Diacope flulviflamma, Cuv. Regtie Anim. ; Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 72. 



t. 19. f. 2, and N. W. Fische, p. 94 ; Cuv. Sf Val. ii. p. 423. 

 Mesoprion monostigma, Cuv. df Val. ii. p. 446 (not Bleek.). 

 fulviflamma, Bleek. Amb. ii. p. 553. 



D. f^. A. |. L. lat. 50. Csec. pylor. 5. 



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

 of the head 3^ ; the diameter of the eye one-fourth of the length of 

 the head. Jaws equal, the upper maxillary bone reaching nearly to 

 below the middle of the eye. Praeoperculura indistinctly notched, the 

 denticulations becoming gradually stronger at the angle : no knob on 



