BY C. W. DE VIS, ESQ.,, M.A. 145 
fourteen spines in the dorsal fin, and the pectoral reduced to 
a size unfitting it for an organ of flight: I refer it to the same 
genus Apistus because it appears to me preferable to relax some- 
what the character of a genus founded on two species only, 
rather than burden the system with a new one, which does not 
seem absolutely necessary. The following are the specific 
characters of this fish, which may from the place of its capture 
be called— 
APISTUS CALOUNDRA, 
D. 14/9, A. 3/7, Lat. 55, Tr. 7/17. 
Pectorals moderately elongate, reaching to the third anal spine. 
Dorsals emarginate between the spinous and soft portions. A 
broadly white-edged black blotch between the ninth and twelfth 
spines of the dorsal—top of the webs between the first two 
spines also black. Upper surface of the snout, a broad band 
across the occiput, a narrow curved band from the snout through 
the edge to the base of the opercular spine, two large blotches 
on the upper part of the trunk connected and apparently 
traversed by three longitudinal bands, two horizontal bands on 
the soft dorsal, three vertical bands on the caudal, and the lower 
third of the pectoral more or less black. 
The preorbital has in front two short spines directed forwards 
and the angle armed with a curved daggerlike spine broader 
than that at the angle of the preopercle. The mandible is 
furnished with two pairs of short tentacles. The height of the 
body is one-fifth of the total length; the length of the head 
three and two-thirds in the same. The orbit is 43 in the head, 
and the interorbit 14 in the orbit. The pectoral appendage is 
as long as the snout, the scales radiately ctenoid and very 
handsome. 
