658 MR. G. A. BOULKNGER ON [DcC. 20, 



MULLID^. 



51. MULLOIDES FLAVOLINEATUS, Lacep. 



52. MULLOIDES ZEYLONICUS, C. & V. 



D, 7 l A. \. L. lat. 38. L. tr. f . 



Depth of the body five and a half times io the total length, length 

 of the head four and a half times. Interorbital space once and a 

 half the diameter of the eye, which measures nearly half the length 

 of the snout. Red, with a rather indistinct yellow lateral band ; 

 fins orange. 



Distinguished from M. flavoUneatus by the more elongate shape, 

 the broader vertex, and the red coloration. 



53. Upeneus macron emus, Lacep. 



54. Upeneus cyclostoma, Lacep. 



55. Upeneus dispilurus, Playf. 



Sparid.e. 



56. Sargus rondeletii, var. capensis. Smith. 



Like the specimen from Maculla, south coast of Arabia, noticed 

 by Playfair and Giinther (Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 43) ; differing from 

 the Mediterranean and Atlantic S. rondeletii in the indistinctness of 

 the four or five blackish cross bands, and in the series of incisors 

 forming a rather stronger curve. 



The same form has been well described by Steindachner (SB. Ak. 

 Wien, Ixxiv. 18/7, p. 203), from specimens obtained in the Persian 

 Gulf and at Madagascar, and named S. kotschyi. 



57. Lethrinus longirostris, Playf. 



58. Lethrinus mahsena, Forsk. 

 69. Lethrinus ramak, Forsk. 

 60. Pagrus ruber, sp. n. 



D. J-f. A. f. L. lat. 52-53. L. tr. ^M , 



Length of the head one fourth of the total ; the diameter of the 

 eye equals the width of the interorbital space, and is contained 

 about once and two thirds in the distance from the mouth ; a pro- 

 tuberance between and in front of the eyes ; the maxillary does not 

 extend to below the anterior border of the eye ; prseorbital once 

 and one fourth as long as deep ; six or seven series of scales on the 

 prseoperculum, the edge of which is not crenulated. Depth of the 

 body twice and a half in the total length. First and second dorsal 

 spines extremely small, scarcely projecting ; third longest, com- 

 pressed and curved, its length one third to one fourth the depth of 

 the body; the membrane between the longer spines very short. 

 Second anal spine slightly longer, but not stronger than the third, 



