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 dusky, and 

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



Length ll-i- 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. Gunther 

 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. Sphyrcena 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. Gunther also describes a fish from Calcutta which may be 

 identical.'' 



(To'feu/xa, arrow.) 



HOLOCENTHRID^. 



57. Myripristis murdjan (Forskal). 



HOLOCENTHRUS Scopoli. 

 Holocenthriis Gronow, in Scopoli, Introd. Hist. Nat. Genera, 1777, p. 449 [roslratus = adscensionis?). 

 (Based on Holocentrtis maxilla inferiore longiore, etc., Gronow, Zoophylacii, 1763, p. 65, plate 4, fig. 3. 

 Sarinami ^ //olocenlrus rostratus Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. Fish., Gron., 1854, 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 33, 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 ofliead 2 in its length ; depth of head 1^ ; snout 4-1- ; eye 3 ; maxillary 2-4- ; 

 mandible 21; interorbital space 4-1-; preopercular spine 3^; first dorsal spine o\; 

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

 anal spine 1-J- ; fourth 2i ; second anal ray 1-| ; upper caudal lobe \\ ; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 3|-; pectoral ly^j ventral 1^; ventral spine 2. 



Body elongate, oblong, compressed, back elevated, convex, and lo^¥er 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 



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



"■ L. c, IX, 1855, p. 285. Manado. Act. See. Sci. Ind. Neerl. (Besch. Visch. Amb.), I, 



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



371. Sangir-eilanden. 



3 Journ. Mus. Godef. (Fische der Siidsee), XI, 1877, p. 211, plate 119, fig. a. 



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



