1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 102/ 



Gen. Corythobatus,* Cantor. 

 (Equivalent to Minous. Cuv. and VaL) 



Differs principally from Prosopodasys (Apistus,) by the absence of 

 scales, and of teeth on the palatal bones.f 



Corythobatus woora, (Cuv. and Val.) 



Russell CLX. Worrah Minoo A. 



Apistus minous, Cuv. R. A. II. 168 (3) 



Minous woora, Cuv. and Val. IV. 421. 



Apistes russellii, Swainson, II. 265. 



Minous woora, Richardson, Rep. 1845, 213. 



Head above and back brownish grey, or pale silvery grey ; sides and 

 abdomen buff or bluish white ; dorsal fin buff, the margin of the spiny 

 portion, and the upper half of the soft portion black ; caudal pale yel- 

 lowish white, with a vertical blackish band at the root ; a second in the 

 middle, and a third near the margin ; anal and ventrals buff, their 

 external half black ; pectorals buff at the root, the rest black ; the free 

 ray white, more or less distinctly annulated with black ; body and fins 

 minutely dotted with black ; filaments of lower jaw white. Iris silvery 

 grey, minutely dotted with black. 



D 9 or 10/10 or 11, C 1 If, A 1/9, V 1/5, P 10 or 11—1, Br. VII. 



Habit. — Sea and estuaries of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 

 Isle of France, China Seas, Vizagapatam. 



Total length, 3f inch. 



M. M. Cuvier and Valenciennes count 11/12 in the dorsal, Sir J. 

 Richardson 10/11. (China Spec.) At Pinang the species is numerous, 

 and applied as manure. 



Corythobatus echinatus, Cantor. 

 Plate XIII. 



Ground colour of head and body umber, pale on the sides and ab- 

 domen ; fins of a darker brown than the body ; on the opercles, above 

 the lateral line and close to the anal fin some larger and smaller irre- 

 gular light spots, edged with black ; numerous similar small round 



* Kopvs helmet ; P&tos thorny. Substituted for Minous, Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 1829, pre-occupied by Minois, Hiibner 1816 (Lepidopt.) 



t Minous woora, and M. monodactylus, the two only species described by 

 Cuvier and Valenciennes, and M. adamsii, Richardson : Voy. Samar. Fishes, 7, 

 PI. II. Fig. 4—5, have a free undivided ray beneath the pectoral fins, but Cory- 

 thobatus echinatus has no such free ray. 



