1887.] FISHES FROM MUSCAT. 659 



Pectoral reaching to below the second soft dorsal ray, and one third 

 in the total length. Red. 



Total length I foot 8^ inches. 



Two specimens : adult dr^', half-grown in spirit. 



61. PaGELLUS AFFINIS, sp. n. 



D. j|. A. ^. L. lat. 60. L. tr. ^. 



Molar teeth smaller than in P. erythrinus, in two series in both 

 jaws. Length of the head one fourth of the total ; eye nearer the 

 end of the snout than the extremity of the gill-cover ; the diameter 

 of the eye eqi:als tha width of the interorbital space, and one fourth 

 the length of t'r.e head, and is contained once and a half in that of 

 the snout ; maxillary not reaching to the vertical of the eye ; prae- 

 orbital two thirds as deep as long, the maxillary edge slightly 

 notched ; six series of scales between the prseorbital and the angle 

 of the prgeoperculum ; posterior nostril ovate. Depth of the body 

 one third of the total length. The length of the third dorsal spine 

 equals its distance from the lateral line. The pectoral fin reaches 

 to below the origin of the soft dorsal. Red ; each scale on the 

 upper half of the body with a dark central spot ; these spots 

 forming ten longitudinal series. 



Total length 1 foot 2 inches. 



A single specimen, stuffed. A second specimen, a skin from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, is in the British Museum, and has been noticed 

 under P. erythrinus by Giinther (Cat. Fishes, i. pp. 474, 475), as 

 belonging probably to a new species. 



62. Chrysophrys sarba, Forsk. 



63. Chrysophrys bifasciata, Forsk. 



64. Chrysophrys hasta, B1. Schn. 



ScORPjENIDiE. 



65. Pterois volitans, Gm. 



66. Pterois lunulata, Schleg. 



67. Pterois miles, Benn. 



Teuthididji. 



68. Tetjthis javus, L. 



()9. Teuthis oramin, B1. Schn. 

 T. albopunctata, Schleg. 



Berycid.e. 



70. Myripristis mvrdjan, Forsk. 



71. Hoi.ocentrum rubrum, Forsk. 



