518 TELEOSTEI. ACAXTIIOPTERYGII. 



the 7/oMHr/the general colour is olive, with some sinuous and narrow 

 light blue lines, which usually fade shortly after death. 



Jfab. East coast of Africa, Baluchistan coast, and seas of India, 

 attaining at least 18 inches in length ; very common in Sind and 

 Bombay. 



689. (7.) Diagramma pictum. 



Perca picta, Thunb. K. Vet.-Akad. Nya Handl. Stockholm, xiii, 1792, 

 p. 142, pi. v, fig. 1. 



Diagramma pictum, Day, Fish. India, p. 81, pi. xxi, fig. 3 (see 



synon.). 



B.vi. D. 9-10/22-23. P. 17. A. 3/7. L.r. 120/100. L.tr. 15/26. 

 Length of head 4|, height of body 3| in the total length. Eyes 

 diameter 3^ (in the young) to 4| in length of head, 1 j to 2 from 

 end of snout, and nearly 1 apart. Fins dorsal spines moderate, 

 3rd usually highest, 2nd and 4th spines are nearly the same ; last 

 spine less than one half length of third, the rays are a little higher 

 than the spine ; second and third anal spines about the same length ; 

 caudal cut nearly square, or with rounded angles. Colour this 

 species has been divided into several on account of variations in 

 colour. Ground-colour orange-yellow or white, with chestnut- 

 brown or black straight longitudinal bands, varying in number and 

 breadth, sometimes bifurcating. The bands usually are from 4 to 7 

 in number and are occasionally broken up into spots. Dorsal fin 

 with a narrow black margin, and a broad dark band from the 

 upper two thirds of the second spine backwards and downwards 

 to the base of the fin ; this band is sometimes interrupted, if con- 

 tinuous it coalesces with the upper body-band, and is continued in 

 a wedge-shaped form to the extremity of the soft dorsal fin. 

 Caudal with a central wedge-shaped dark band, and cross bands 

 over its upper and lower angles ; lower half of anal and end of 

 ventral black. 



Hob. Eed Sea, east coast of Africa, seas of India, the Malay 

 Archipelago, and beyond. 



690. (8.) Diagramma pnnctatum. 



Diagramma pnnctatum (Ehrcnberg), Cuv. $- Vol. H. N. Poiss. v, 

 p. 302 ; Day, Fish. India, p. 83, pi. xxi, fig. 2 (see synon.). 



Hotya, Marathi. 

 B.vii. D.9-10/22-25. P.17. A.3/7. L.r.105-109/90-95. L.tr.15/20. 



Length of head from 4| to 41, height of body 3^ in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter from 4 to ty in length of "head, 1| to 2 

 from end of snout, and about 1 apart. Vertical border and rounded 

 angle of preopercle serrated. Fim dorsal spines moderate, the 

 second and third the longest ; second anal spine slightly the 

 strongest, but the third a little the longest ; caudal lunate. Colour 

 greyish, several rows of large brilliant golden spots along the 

 upper half of the body ; bluish bands on sides of head continued 



