504 A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM SUMATRA. 



forked, lobes sharp pointed. Pectoral small, reaching about two-fifths length of 

 ventral. Ventral reaching about one-fourth of distance to origin of anal. 



Color faded in alcohol, pale or dull brown above, and with many narrow incon- 

 spicuous dark brown longitudinal bands arranged close together, formed by a dark 

 tint on each scale. Spinous dorsal dark gray, becoming dusky above. Soft dorsal 

 with its upper portion dusky. Caudal grayish. Pectoral pale, base dusk}', and 

 other fins whitish. Lower surface of body silvery-white. Peritoneum silvery. 



Length 11|^ inches. 



Type No. 27,470, A. N. S. P. Padang. 



One example. This species originally described from Batavia by Bleeker was 

 referred to Sphyrcsna forsteri Cuvier with doubt,^ and other examples were subse- 

 quently also referred to it from other islands in the East Indies.^ Dr. Giinther 

 figures a fish certainly referable to S. forsteri, from Tahiti, which does not agree 

 with my example.'^ It shows 126 scales in the lateral line, and the eye is about 

 3^ in the snout. Furthermore his description gives 90 scales for the lateral line, 

 and if not an error is certainly a different species. Sphyrcsna toxeuma has 115 

 scales in the lateral line, counting the few on base of caudal, and the eye is hardly 

 over 2 in snout. Dr. Giinther also describes a fish from Calcutta which may be 

 identical.* 



(Toc'£D/na, arrow.) 



HOLOCENTHRID.(E. 



57. MvRiPRiSTis MURDJAN ( Forskal). 



HOLOCENTHRUS Scopoli. 

 Holocenthrus Gronow, in Scopoli, Introd. Hist. Nat. Genera, 1777, p. 449 {rosiratus = ndsce?is!o>ns?). 

 (Based on Holocentrus maxilla inferiore longiore^ etc., Gronow, Zoopliylacii, 1763, p. 65, plate 4, fig. 3. 

 Sunnami ^= ffolocenlms rostrattis Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. Fish., Gron., 18.54, p. 173.) 



58. HOLOCENTHRUS AUREORUBER sp. nov. Plate X, upper figure. 



Head 3 ; depth 3 ; D. XI, i, 12 ; A. IV, 9 ; P. i, 12 ; V. I, 7 ; scales to base 

 of caudal 83, and 3 more on latter; 3 scales between origin of dorsal and lateral 

 line, and 7 obliquely between latter and origin of anal; 7 scales before spinous dor- 

 sal ; width of head 2 in its length ; depth of head 1^ ; snout 4-1- ; eye 3 ; maxillary 2^ ; 

 mandible 2^ ; interorbital space 4^- ; preopercular spine 3^ ; first dorsal spine 3-|- ; 

 second 2^ ; third 1|- ; fourth 1|- ; last 5 ; third developed dorsal ray 1|^ ; third 

 anal spine \\ ; fourth 2^ ; second anal ray If ; upper caudal lobe 1^ ; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle of; pectoral ly-2 ; ventral 1^; ventral spine 2. 



Body elongate, oblong, compressed, back elevated, convex, and lower profile 

 nearly straight. Greatest depth about base of pectoral. Caudal peduncle small, 

 compressed, its least depth about one and two-thirds in its length. 



Head moderate, rather deep, compressed, and upper profile convex. Snout 



' Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., VII, 1854, p. 424. 



' L. c, iX, 1855, p. 285. Manado. Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Need. (Bescli. Visch. Amb.), I, 



1856, p. 4. Amboina. Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., XII, 1856, p. 293. Bali. L. c, XII, 1857, p. 



371. Sangireilanden. 



■' Journ. Mus. Godef. (Fische der Siid.see), XI, 1877, p. 211, plate 119, fii;. a. 



' Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., II, 1860, p. 337. 



