208 LABRID-E. 



Fourth Group. PSEUDODACINA. 



37. PSEUDODAX. 



Odax, sp., Cuv. 8f Vol. xiv. p. 305. 



Pseudodax, Bleek. in Versl. en Mededeel. Akad. Wetensch. Amsterd. Na- 

 tuurk. xii. 1861, Scaroid. p. 2 (sep. copy). 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with scales of moderate size ; 

 lateral line continuous ; cheeks and opercles scaly. Each jaw armed 

 with two pairs of broad incisors and with a cutting lateral edge ; 

 teeth of the lower pharyngeal confluent pavement-like. Eleven 

 dorsal spines. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



1. Pseudodax moluccensis. 



Jtenard, i. pi. 2. no. 12 ; Vaknt. p. 360. fig. 10. 



Odax moluccanus, Cuv. Sf Vol. xiv. p. 305. pi. 408 (head) ; Cuv. Bigne 



Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 91. fig. 3 (bad) ; Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl.'i. 



Manado enMakass. p. 64; Kner, Sitzgsber. Wien. Acad. 1860, xl. p. 56. 



taf. 2. fig. 18 (pharyngeal apparatus). 

 Pseudodax moluccanus, Bhek. Atl. Ichth. p.80. tab.22. fig.2, tab. 18. fig.5. 



D. 5^. A. ^. L. lat. 32. L. transv. 4/12. 



Dorsal and caudal with black reticulated lines ; anal with four un- 

 dulated blackish- violet longitudinal lines. 



Celebes, Amboyna, and Java. 

 a. Fine specimen. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr, Frank. 

 6. Fine specimen. Java. Purchased of Mr. Jararach. 

 c. Adult: stuffed. 



Fifth Group. SCARINA- 



38. SCARUS*. 



Scar us, sp., Forsk. p. 25. 



Scarus, Bleek. Versl. en Mededeel. Akad. Wetensch. Amsterd. Natuurk. 

 xii. 1861, Scar. p. 2. 



The lower jaw projecting beyond the upper ; a single series of 

 scales on the cheek ; dorsal spines stiff, pungent ; the upper Up 

 double in its whole circuit ; anterior teeth soldered together, arranged 

 in quincuncial order in mature specimens, and in oblique series in 

 young ones ; the dentigerous plate of the lower pharyngeal broader 

 than long. D. ^. A. |. L. lat. 21-23. 



Mediterranean. Tropical parts of the Atlantic. 



Skeleton (Sc. aurofrenatus). — The peculiar articulation of the jaw- 



* 1. Scarus brachialis, Poet/, Mem. Cub. ii. 1861, p. 345'. — Cuba. 



2. acroptilus, Richards. Voy. Ereb. Sf Terr. Fishes, p. 69. — Australia. 



> A few other new species of Scarus or Pseudoscarus are mentioned in Poey's 

 List of Cuban Fishes. Unfortunately the sheets containing tlieir descriptions are 

 wanting in our copy of the work quoted, and have not been received yet. although 

 ordered for some time. 



