9. OIEET.LA. 427 



ten dorsal and three anal spines ; the soft portions of tlic dorsal and 

 anal scaly at the base. Scales of moderate size. Five branchioetegals. 

 Sea of Pinang ; Malayan Peninsula. 



1. Proteracanthus sarissophorus. 



Crenidens sarissophorus, Cant. Catal. p. 52. pi. 1. 

 Girella sarissophorus, Bleek. Sinyup. pp. 03, 04. 



D. 'A A.-i. 



15 14 



The height of the body is 2| in the total length ; caudal trun- 

 cated ; the fourth dorsal spine (the recumbent spine not included) 

 very strong and elongate, overlapping the succeeding five spines \ the 

 first ventral ray produced into a filament. Coloration imiform 

 brownish. {Cant.) 



Sea of Pinang ; Malayan Peninsula. 



9. GIPvELLA* 



Girella, Oray, Ulustr. Ind. Zool. 



Melanichthys, Te>n?n. ^ Schley. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 75. 



Crenidens, sp., Richardson. 



In both jaws series of flat and generally tricuspid teeth, behind 

 which is a band of similar teeth, but less developed, and replacing 

 the former. No molars ; [in one species a short scries of palatine 

 teeth.] Cheeks scaly ; opercles naked, except the upper angle of 

 the operculum. The dorsal spines (fourteen or fifteen) can be re- 

 ceived into a rather incomplete groove. Scales of moderate size. 

 Six branchiostegals. Pyloric appendages in great number; air- 

 bladder divided into two posterior horns. 



Chinese, Japanese, and Australian Seas. 



1. Girella punctata. 



Girella punctata. Gray, III. Ind. Zool. pi. 98. f. 3, 4. 

 Melanichthys, Temm. 8f Schley. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 75. pi. 39. 

 Crenidens pimctatus, Richardson, Ichth. China, p. 242. 

 melanichthys, Richardson, Ichth. China, p. 243. 



D-S5- A-IiVs- L.lat. 52-66. L. transv. ^. 



The length of the head is about 4| in the total length ; dorsal nn 

 of moderate height, the longest ray rather longer than the last spine ; 

 the incisors three-pointed, moderately broad, imbricate, the upper 

 in three, the lower in two series. Uniform broAvnish. 



Chinese and Japanese Seas. 



a. 9" long ; skin. China Seas. Purchased of Mr. Warwick. 



6. 14" long: stuffed. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esf]. 



— Type of Girella punctata : rather deformed by stuflUng. 

 c-f. Adult : stuffed. Japan. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



* 1. Crenidens Iconinus, Ifickardson, Ichtk. China, p. 242.— China Seas 



