1018 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. [Oct. 



M. M. Cuvier and Valenciennes count 7 spines in the anterior 

 dorsal ; Russell gives 8, and correctly figures the first as being very 

 small. Single small individuals occur at Pinang at all seasons. 



2. With velvety teeth in both jaws ; palate toothless, 



Hypeneus flavolineatus,* (Lacepede) Var. 



Head above and back pale bluish brown or bronze ; cheeks, sides 

 and abdomen pale greenish silvery ; from tbe lower part of the orbit 

 a vertical crimson streak ; opercle and the root of the pectorals crim- 

 son ; on each side beneath the lateral line a broad longitudinal orange, 

 or rust-coloured band, intersecting the lateral line at the commence- 

 ment of the posterior dorsal, and terminating above it at the root of 

 the caudal ; fins pale yellow ; dorsals and caudal each with three or 

 four oblique waved reddish bands ; lower part of anal and ventrals 

 pale reddish ; gular filaments yellow. Iris golden. 



D 7 or 8—9, C 15£, A 7, V 1/5, P 14 or 15, Br. IV. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Total length : 5| inch. 



M. M. Cuvier and Valenciennes count 7 — 9 in the dorsal fins ; in 

 some individuals however, a very minute spine precedes the longest. 

 Those observed at Pinang appear principally to differ from H.favo- 

 lineatus in having waved reddish bands on the dorsals and caudal fins. 

 It must however be observed that these bands become totally obliterated 

 shortly after death. The lateral band remains, but it changes to 

 blackish. In other characters this fish agrees with the description of 

 H.flavolineatus. The length of the head is contained A\ times in 

 the total, measured to the centre of the caudal margin ; the greatest 

 vertical diameter of the body is 5^ of the total ; the eye occupies about 

 the third fourth from the muzzle, its diameter equalling \ of the length 

 of the head. The distance between the two dorsals equals the extent 

 of the base of the posterior, but is somewhat less than that of the 

 anterior. The ramifications of the lateral line consist of 5 or 6 

 branches on each scale, of which three or four are directed obliquely 

 upwards, one downwards. The root of the scales has four or five 

 crenulations. The filaments are rather thick, fleshy, slightly exceeding 



* Mullus flavolineatus, Lacepede III. 406. — Mullus aureo-vittatus, Shaw IV. 

 618. — Upeneus flavolineatus , Cuvier and Valenciennes III. 456. 



