208 PEKCID^. 



caudal fins blackish, the others yellowish ; no black spot at the base 

 of the pectoral, 



Japanese, Chinese, and Javanese Seas; Amboyna; Loiiisiade Archi- 

 pelago ; Island of Waigiou ; north coast of Australia. 



a. Half-grown : skin. Chinese Seas. Purchased of Mr. Warwick. 



b. Young: not good state. Hong Kong. From the Haslar Col- 



lection. 



c. Adult. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



d. Young. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



e. Half-grown. Molucca Sea. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



/. Half-grown : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago. Presented by the 



Lords of the Admiralty. 

 g. Half-grown : stuflPed. Louisiade Archipelago. Voyage of the 



Rattlesnake. 

 h. Half-gro^^Ti : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago. (15 fathoms.) 



Voyage of the llattlesnake. 

 {. Half-grown : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago (Chaumont Island). 



Voyage of the llattlesnake. 

 k. Adult : stuffed. Port Essington. Collected by Macgillivray. 

 I, m. Young. From the Haslar Collection. 

 n. Adult: stuffed. 



Cuv. and Val. quote for their description the species of Quoy and 

 Gaimai'd, but give eleven spines for the dorsal fin. The description 

 and figure in the ' Zoologie de la Voyage, par L. de Freycinet,' per- 

 fectly agree with each other, as well as with the species of the ' Fauna 

 Japonica ' and ^vith our specimens. The number given in the ' Hist. 

 Nat. des Poissons ' appears to be wrong. 



38. Mesopriou bleekeri. 



Meaojprion lineolatus, Bleeker, Peic. p. 46. (Diacope lineolata, Riipp. 

 different.) 



D. H A. |. L. lat. 60. 



The height of the body is 4^ in the total length, and the length 

 of the head Is 3| ; the diameter of the eye is one-fourth of the 

 latter. Muzzle rather narrow, with the lower profile as much 

 ascending as the upper is descending. Jaws equal in front, the 

 upper maxillaiy bone reaching to below the anterior half of the eye. 

 Praeoperculum serrated, with rather prominent and stronger denti- 

 culated angle ; suprascapula serrated. Caudalis truncated ; pectoral 

 small, short, not reaching beyond the end of the ventral ; the third, 

 fourth, and fifth dorsal spines longest, all being slender ; the second 

 of the anal rather thinner and shorter than the third. Yellowish 

 olive, with a blackish longitudinal band from the eye to the caudal fin. 



Sea of Batavia ; Amboyna. 



a. Adult. Ambo}Tia. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



h. Half-grown. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



c. Young. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



