3G2 PRISTIPOMATTD.E. 



head 4| ; the diameter of the eye is 2| in the latter, and longer 

 than the snout. The praeorbital is one-third as high as the eye, and 

 armed with a strong slender spine and some denticulations beneath. 

 Praeoperculum with the posterior limb strongly serrated and scarcely 

 emarginate. Caudahs forked ; the second anal spine much longer 

 and stronger than the third, even longer than the soft portion of the 

 fin. Above dark violet ; a yellow cross-band between the eyes ; three 

 bluish longitudinal bands — the first along the middle of the neck to 

 the dorsal fin, the second from tl^e crown to the base of the soft 

 dorsal, the third from the eye to the end of the dorsal ; a white lon- 

 gitudinal band from the snout, below the eye, to the caudal. A black 

 spot on the anterior part of the spinous dorsal. (Bl.) 

 Sea of Solor. 



16. Sc^iopsis ghanam. 



Scisena ghanam, Forslc p. 5J 



Holocentrus ghanam, Lacep. iv. p. 847. 



Scolopsis lineatus, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 7. pi. 2. f. 1, and N. W. Fische, 



p. 126. 

 Scolopsides ghanam, Ctiv. 8f Val. v. p. 848. 



D. ]1, A.y. L. lat. 48. L. transv. 4/14. Csec. pylor. 3. 



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

 head four times ; the diameter of the eye is 3f in the latter, and 

 much longer than the snout, or the interspace between the eyes. The 

 infraorbital arch with one fiat spine of moderate length ; the spini- 

 ferous plate slightly denticiilated, and not elevated. Praeopercuhim 

 with a notch above the angle. Spines of the fins slender ; the third 

 of the anal longer and not thinner than the second. Caudalis sliglitly 

 forked. The lateral line angularly curved below the fourth dorsal 

 spine, and steeply descending behind the end of the dorsal fin. On 

 each side four whitish lines : the first from above the anterior angle 

 of the orbit to the end of the dorsal ; the second from the supra- 

 scapula above, and following the lateral line to the back of the tail ; 

 the third from the posterior upper angle of the orbit below, and fol- 

 lowing the lateral line, lost on the posterior third of the body ; the 

 fourth, shortest, from the posterior lower angle of the orbit, lost above 

 the base of the pectoral. 



Red Sea. 



a. Adult. 



b. Adult. 



17. Scolopsis pectinatus. 



Scolopsides pectinatus, {KuhlSfv. Hass.) Cue. c^- Val. v. p. 34G, 

 D.H. A.i. 



Praeorbital narrow, with a verj'' acute spine and without other den- 

 ticulations ; praeoperculum with the angle projecting backwards. 

 Yellowish, indistinctly spotted ; fins immaculate. (Cuv.) 



Sea of Java. 



