994 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. [Oct. 



Gen. Genyoroge,* Cantor. 

 (Equivalent to Diacope, Cuvier.) 



Canines among the velvety maxillary teeth ; margin of preopercle 

 toothed ; opercle generally terminating in two or three flat points ; mar- 

 gin of preopercle with a notch receiving a tuberosity of the interopercle. 

 Genyoroge notata, (Cuv. and Yal.) 



Russell XCVIII, Antika Doondiawah. 



Diacope notata, Cuv. and Val. II. 422. 



Mesoprion russelli, Bleeker : Verh. Batav. Gen. XXII. 20, 41. 



Head above crimson ; cheeks golden, margin of preopercle pale car- 

 mine ; of opercle vermilion ; back reddish brown ; sides pale golden 

 with red reflections ; abdomen yellowish white ; from the orbit, above 

 the lateral line, three obliquely ascending orange lines, of which the 

 lowest reaches the middle of the base of the dorsal rays ; beneath 

 which a large black spot ; beneath the lateral line three or four parallel 

 similar lines, of which the uppermost divides the black spot ; the rest 

 nearly straight from the opercle towards the tail ; fin membranes yel- 

 lowish ; apical third of dorsal spines and rays, and upper, lower and 

 posterior margin of caudal fin crimson ; anal and ventral fins gamboge. 

 Iris golden. 



Young. — Head above and back brownish ; cheeks, sides and abdo- 

 men, silvery white ; stripes of the body brown ; fine pale yellow, points 

 of dorsal rays and posterior margin of caudal fin pale crimson. 



D 10/14, C 17|, A 3/8, V 1/5, P 16, Br. VII. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Batavia. 



Total length : 9 inch. 



Russell gives 3/6 in the anal ; M. M. Cuvier and Valenciennes 1 1/13 

 in the dorsal fin. Russell has observed the changes of colour produced 

 by age. On each side of the throat appear three small oval fossets, of 

 which the posterior is the largest. The species is not numerous at 

 Pinang. 



Gen. Mesoprion, Cuvier 1829. 



Teeth on the palate and vomer ; canines among the velvety maxil- 

 lary teeth ; the middle of each side of the head armed with teeth like 

 those of a saw. 



* Ylw, cheek; pwyy), cleft. Substituted for Diacope, Cuvier 1817, preoccu- 

 pied by Diacope, Hubner 1816, (Lepidopt.) 



