378 PKISTIPOMATIDJE. 



from the head to the caudal fin ; dorsal fin with three waved, green- 

 ish-yellow longitudinal stripes. 



Sea of Biilueomba (Celebes). Lotiisiade Archipelago. 



a-d. Adult and half-grown : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago. Voy- 

 age of the Rattlesnake (in 30 fathoms). 



14. Synagris japonicus. 



Spams japonicus, Block, t. 277. f. 1. 



Dentex blocliii, Sleeker, Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Indie, 1851, p. 176. 



B. 6. D.H A.f L.lat. 45. 



The height of the body is 4 or 3| in the total length, and nearly 

 equal to the length of the head ; the diameter of the eye is 3-3^ in 

 the latter, and rather longer than the snout ; the height of the prae- 

 orbital is about one-half of the diameter of the eye ; there are three 

 series of scales between the praeorbital and the angle of the praeoper- 

 culum. Eight or ten canine teeth in the upper jaw, none in the 

 lower. The spines of the fins slender ; the posterior ones of the 

 dorsal longer, 2f in the height of the body ; the third anal spine in- 

 termediate in length between the second spine and the first ray. 

 Caudalis deeply forked, with the upper lobe longer, and sometimes 

 produced into a short filament. Reddish violet, with seven or eight 

 golden longitudinal bands; a ferruginous spot on the opercidum; 

 dorsal fin yellow-edged, caudal red. (-BZ.) 



Sea of Batavia. 



15. Synagris filamentosns. 



Cantharus filamentosus, R'dpp. Atl. Fische, p. 50. pi. 12. f. 3 (not 



Dentex filamentosus, Cuv. 8f Val). 

 Dentex bipunctatus, (Shrenberg) Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 247. 

 tambulus, Cfuv. df Val. vi. pp. 249, 558 (not Spams japoniciis, 



Block) ; Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 114 ; Bleek. Verlutnd.Bat. Gettoatsch. 



xxiii. Spar. p. 12. 



D. '-^. A. |. C^. pylor. 4. 



The height of the body is three times in the total length (without 

 caudal), the length of .the head 3^. The snout is longer than the 

 eye. The posterior spines of the dorsal fin longest, one-third of the 

 height of the body ; caudalis deeply forked ; in adult specimens 

 (males ?) the upper lobe prolonged into a filament nearly as long as 

 the fin, and the ventrals elongate, about one-foui'th of the total length. 

 Reddish ; two yellow streaks along the belly. 



Red Sea ; Coast of Pondicherry. 



16. Synagris nemurns. 

 Dentex nemurus, Bleek. Act. Soe. Nederl. ii., Amboitia, p. 49. 

 B. 6. D. ^. A. |. L. lat. 50. 

 The height of the body is 4| in the total length (without caudal 



