453 TELKOSTEI. ACANTnOPTERTGII. 



Siygapu citllawah, Turn. 

 D. 9/14-15. A. 3/8-9. C. 17. L. r. 130-140/116-120. L.tr. 27/40. 



" Length of head 3 to 3|, height of body 3| to 3| in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 5^ to 6| in the total length, 1| to 1^ from 

 end of snout, and | apart. Vertical margin of preopercle sometimes 

 slightly oblique above its angle ; it is very finely serrated in its whole 

 extent. Lower limb with irregular notches and serrated, occa- 

 sionally coarsely so. Sub- and interopercles finely serrated ; the 



Fig. 142. Serranus sonnerati. 



two upper opercular spines more developed than the lower. Fins 

 dorsal spines moderately strong, increasing in length to the third, 

 from whence they slightly augment in height to the last ; the rayed 

 portion is about one fourth higher than the spinous ; second anal 

 spine the strongest, but not quite so long as the third, which nearly 

 equals the third of the dorsal ; caudal rounded. Scale* cycloid on 

 the head, ctenoid on the body ; fine ones are continued for some 

 distance up the bases of the soft dorsal, anal, and caudal fins. 

 There are 14 or 15 rows of scales between the sixth dorsal spine 

 and the lateral line. Colour dull lal<e ; the head and body to 

 below the first half of the spinous dorsal fin covered with a network 

 of blue lines enclosing spots from one sixth the diameter of the eye 

 to spaces larger than it. Some indistinct spots over the whole of 

 the body. Fins of rather darker colour than the body, especially 

 at their edges ; caudal with some dull blue or white spots. 



Halt. Isle of Bourbon and east coast of Africa, seas of India, 

 mostly if not entirely confined to the east coast and Ceylon. At 

 Madras this species is not uncommon, and attains at least 3 feet in 

 length. 



590. (31.) Serranus boelang. 



Sen-aims boolanpr, Cuv. $ Vol. II. N. Poiss. ii, p. 308 ; Day, Fish. 

 India, p. 26, pi. vii, fig. 2 (see synon.). 



D. 9/15-16. P. 15. A. 3/8-9. C. 17. L.r. 90/83. L. tr. 18/36. 

 Length of head 3| to 3J, height of body nearly 3J in the total 



