22. SMAK18. 389 



not shortened. Head and body with irregular blue spots and 

 streaks ; vertical fins blue-spotted ; a brownish spot between the 

 first two or three dorsal spines. 

 Mediterranean, 



a. Adult : skin. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



3. Smarts maurii. 

 Bonap. Faun, Ital. Pesci, pi. . f. 3. 



D. ii. A.i-. 



12 9 



The height of the body is rather shorter than the length of the 

 head, and about one-fifth of the total. Dorsal fin without notch, 

 with the posterior rays longest, rather higher than one-half the 

 height of the body. No black lateral blotch. (Bonap.) 



Mediterranean. 



4. Smaris gracilis. 



Sparus smaris, De la Roche, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 344. 

 Smaris gracilis, Bwiap. Faun. Ital. pi. . f. 1. 



The length of the head is much more than the height of the 

 body, which is one-sixth of the total length. The dorsal without 

 notch, much higher than one-half of the depth of the body ; the 

 posterior rays shortest. A black lateral blotch below the lateral Une. 



Mediterranean. 



a. Adult : skin. Mediterranean. From the Collection of the Zoo- 

 logical Society. 



5. Smaris melanarus. 

 Cuv. ^ Vol. vi. p. 422. 

 D, 1^, A. ^. C»c. pylor. 7. L. lat. 6tj. L. transv. 8/15. 



Lead- coloured, silvery shining ; a large black spot at the root of 

 the caudal fin. 

 Cape Verde. 



a-c. Adult. From the Haslar Collection. 



6. Smaris balteatus. 



Ciw. 8f Val. vi. p. 424. 



Body cylindrical, elongate. Dorsalis deeply notched. Above 

 reddish brown, dotted with white ; a silvery band from above the 

 eye to the caudal; beneath silvery. {Val ^ 



Ceylon. 



