292 PRISTIPOMATIDyE. 



origin, and I doubt whether they came from the Red Sea ; but they 

 agree very well with P. argenteum, as far as the characters are given 

 in the descriptions quoted. 



12. Pristipoma argyreum. 



Pristipoma argyreum, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiii. Scteen. p. 22. 

 ? Pristipoma argyreimi, Cuv. (^ Val. ix. p. 485. 



D. iif^ A.f L. lat. 40. 



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

 to the length of the head. The snout is much shorter than the eye, 

 which is one-third of the leng-th of the eye. Praeoperculum slightly 

 emarginate behind, with fine denticulations. The third and fourth 

 dorsal spines longest, one-half of the height of the body. Caudalis 

 tnincated ; the second anal spine one-seventh of the total length. 

 Uniform silvery ; operculum with an oUve spot. 



Coast of Coromandel ; Sumatra ; Batavia. 



13. Pristipoma pihloo. 



Richardson, Ichth. CJiina, p. 227. 



U. -. A. -. 



Prseoperculum with the posterior edge emarginate. The second 

 anal spine longer and stronger than the third. A row of seven 

 roundish dark spots or short transverse bars along the back above 

 the lateral line. {Richardson.) 



Canton. 



The specimen on which this species was foun(Jed by Sir John 

 Richardson appears to have been mislaid. 



14. Pristipoma paikeeli. 



Paikeeli, Russell, pi. 121. 



Pristipoma paikeeli, Cuv. ^ Val. v. p. 259 ; Cant. Catal. p. 74 ; Bleek. 

 Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiii. Sci<en. p. 20. 



B. 7. D. ^. A. -5-. L. lat. 55-60. 



15 9 



The height of the boay is three times in the total length, the 

 length of the head 3|. Caudalis emarginate. Silvery brownish 

 white ; on the back and sides as far as the pectoral fin, six brown 

 parallel longitudinal bands edged mth black ; all the fins, except 

 the pectoral, minutely dotted with brown ; the spinous dorsal black- 

 edged ; the upper half of the soft dorsal and the posterior margin of 

 the caudal blackish. Membrane of the soft dorsal, of the caudal, 

 anal, and ventral fius j)artially-covercd with minute scales. 



Madras ; Vizagnpatam ; Sea of Pinang. 



