532 TELEOSTEI. ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



711. (1.) Caesio pinjalo. (Fig. 160.) 



Ceesio pinjalo, Sleeker, Batavia Nat. Tijdsch. i, p. 10; Day, Fish, 

 India, p. 94, pi. xxiv, fig. 4 (see synon.). 



Polei-oolavai, Mette mirrei, Tamil. 

 B. vii. D. 11/14. A. 3/10. C. 17. L. 1. 50-55. L. tr. 9/18. 



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

 diameter 3| to 4 in length of head, | to 1 from end of snout, 

 and also apart. Body oval and compressed. Lower jaw the 

 longer. Vertical limb of preopercle serrated, most coarsely so at 

 the angle, which is considerably produced. Opercle with a weak, 

 flat spine. Teeth villiform, with one or two, sometimes three, 

 small conical ones on either side of middle of upper jaw, in a narrow 

 band in a A-form on vomer, and also on palatines, occasionally 

 absent from both the latter. Fins dorsal spines weak, fourth and 

 fifth the highest, from these they slightly decrease to the last, which 



Fig. 160. Casio vinjalo. 



nearly equals the first ray, rays shorter than longest spine ; pec- 

 toral pointed. Second anal spine about equal in length to third ; 

 caudal lunate. Colour yellowish red on back, rosy below lateral 

 line ; stripes along rows of scales above lateral line dark olivaceous, 

 yellower below it ; pectoral, ventral, and anal orange ; dorsal and 

 caudal yellowish edged with black. 



Hob. Coromandel coast of India, Malay Archipelago; attaining 

 at least 16 inches in length. 



712. (2.) Caesio cuning. 



' Sparus cuning, Block, Ich. t. 263, fig. L 

 Csesio cuning, Day, Fish, India, p. 95 (see synon.). 



Cul Mchi, Tamil. 

 B. vi. D. 10/15. A. 3/11. L. 1. 53. L. tr. 7/13. Vert. 10/14. C. pyl. 5. 



Length of head 4| to 5, height of body 3 to 3| in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 4 in length of head, f to 1 from end of 

 snout, and 1| apart. Preopercular angle rounded and finely 



