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The eye is situated behind the centre of a line drawn from the pro- 

 tracted muzzle to the point of the opercle ; its diameter is a little less 

 than ^ of the length of the head. The canines of both jaws are very 

 small ; there are 4 in the upper, 6 in the lower of which the two outer 

 ones are the largest and slightly outwards arched. The pores are 

 very minute, scarcely perceptible by the naked eye, rather closely dis- 

 tributed over the infraobitals, the cheeks, the margin of the preopercle 

 and the lower jaw. The lateral line is very distinct, following the out- 

 line of the back. The scales are very finely ciliated: there are about 

 47 on a straight line. This species is closely allied to P. porosus, 

 Cuv. and Val. from which it differs in the eye being situated farther 

 back, in the comparatively longer pectoral fins, the second and third 

 upper rays reaching the anal spine, and in the comparative greater 

 length of the anal spines. The anterior of the latter is half the length 

 of the second and third, which are equal and of nearly the same length 

 as the succeeding soft rays. The description is taken from a solitary 

 individual, observed at Pinang in 1844. 



Gen. Spondyliosoma,* Cantor. 

 (Equivalent to Cantharus, Cuvier.) 



Teeth card-like, close, the external series a little stronger than the 

 rest and slightly curved ; mouth slightly cleft, not protractile. 

 Spondyliosoma guliminda, (Cuv. and Val.) 



Eussell CVII. Lama Guliminda. 



Cantharus guliminda, Cuv. and Val. VI. 344. 



Young. — Head above, back and sides above the lateral line rose- 

 coloured ; the latter bordered beneath by a pale blue line ; sides and 

 abdomen silvery with five parallel straight longitudinal lines, each rose- 

 coloured, bordered beneath with pale blue ; cheeks and opercles silvery, 

 washed with rose colour ; beneath the orbit an elongated blue spot ; a 

 larger on the opercle. Dorsal fin whitish transparent, either pale blue 

 at the base, or with a bluish line behind each spine ; the spiny part 

 edged with vermilion ; anterior half of caudal bluish, posterior pale 

 crimson; the other fins whitish transparent; the anal membrane in 

 some bluish near the margin. 



* ~2,irov5vAiop spindle ; crcS/m, body. Substituted for Cantharus, Cuvier, 1829, 

 pie-occupied by Cantharus, Montfort, 1808, (Polypi.) 



