178 CLASS XIV. 



Heterognathodon BLEEKER. Suborbital bones smooth, without 

 any spine. Jaws with setaceous teeth in many rows, and a few 

 anterior large, conical (canines). Other characters those of the pre- 

 ceding genus. 



Sp. Heterognathodon Ufasciatus, Scolopsides caninus Cuv.? and two new 

 species from the Indian Ocean. Compare Verh. van het. Batav. Genootsch. 

 XXIII. 1849. 



Pristipoma nob. Teeth subulate, thin, numerous, in several 

 rows, larger in outer row. PraBOperculum denticulate. Branchioste- 

 gous membrane with seven rays. Pharyngeal teeth conical, strong. 

 Pores under lower jaw. 



Hcemulon Cuv. Scales in the soft part of dorsal and anal, and 

 in the forked caudal fin. 



Sp. Pristipoma elegans, Anthias formosus BLOCH, Ichth. Tab.323, Cuv. R. Ani., 

 id. ill., Poiss. PL 30, fig. i ; Pristipoma formosum, Perca formosa L., 

 Labrus Plumieri LACEP. Poiss. in. PL 2, fig. 2, and some other species 

 from the West Indies and Brasil. 



Pristipoma Cuv. Fins not scaly. Two pores under the apex of 

 lower jaw ; a middle groove behind them, as in the preceding sub- 

 genus, from which it scarcely differs. Caudal fin mostly truncate 

 or lunate. 



Sp. Pristipoma Commersonii Cuv., Labrus Commersonii LAC., and Lutjanus 

 microstomus ejusd., LACEPkDE Poiss. in. PL 23, fig. i; PL 34, fig. 2; at 

 Madagascar in the mouth of rivers ; Pristipoma japonicum Cuv., SCHLEG. 

 Faun. Japon., Pise. Tab. 16, fig. 2, and many other species from the 

 Indian Sea and some from the western hemisphere. 



Diagramma Cuv. Fins not scaly. Six pores under lower jaw. 



Sp. Pristipoma orientate, Anthias orientalis BLOCH, Ickthyol. Tab. 326, fig. 3, 

 Diagramma orientate Cuv., VAL. Poiss. v. PL 124 ; a small fish from the 

 Indian Archipelago, marked black and yellow, with round caudal fin; 

 Pristipoma pictum nob., Diagramma punctatum EHBENB., Cuv. (and 

 Diagramma pictum et cinereum sec. BLEEKER), Red, Indian and Japan 

 Seas; Pristipoma plectorhynchum, Plectorhynchus chcetonoides LAC., 

 Poiss. II. PI. 13, fig. 2, &c. 



Note. Here also is to be inserted sub-genus Ckilotrema TSCHUDI, Faun. 

 Peruan., Ichth. p. 13, Tab. i. 



Phalanx II. Dorsal fins two, or dorsal Jin single deeply incised 

 between the spines and the soft rays. 



a) Margin of prceoperculum entire. Ventral fins jugular ; soft 

 part of dorsal fin long. No cirri under jaw. 



