1034 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. [Oct. 



Sub. Gen. Girella,* (Gray,) Richardson. 



Teeth curved, flat and expanding towards their ends which are tricus- 

 pid, standing out in three rows on the margin of the jaw ; a little 

 way behind them a brush-like band of much smaller teeth which are 

 also tricuspid and like the others, except in size. 



Crenidens sarissophorus, Cantor. 

 PI. I. Figs. 1-4. 



Young. — Head, back and sides above the lateral line pale umber 

 brown; rest of the sides and abdomen silvery buff; all the scales 

 broadly edged with pale umber ; spines buff, minutely dotted with dark 

 brown ; fin-membranes and rays buff, so closely dotted with dark 

 brown, as to appear a shade darker than the body. Iris pale golden, 

 orbital margin blackish. 



D 11/15, C 15f A 3/14, V 1/5, P 19, Br. V. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 



Total length : 7-f inch. 



The form is elongated oval ; the abdominal profile a little less arched 

 than the dorsal. The vertical diameter at occiput is }, at the fifth 

 dorsal spine 2f, between the last dorsal and anal rays | of the total 

 length. The body is much compressed, particularly towards the back ; 

 the greatest thickness is at the lower third of the vertical diameter, 

 where it equals ^ the length of the head. The muzzle is obtuse ; the 

 forehead a little arched between the eyes ; the length of the head is ^ of 

 the total ; the eye is placed high up, its horizontal diameter is about 

 3^ of the length of the head ; the distance from the muzzle equals the 

 diameter. The posterior opening of the nostril is an almost vertical 

 fissure immediately in front of the eye ; the anterior is oval and situat- 

 ed a little behind the muzzle ; the infraorbital bone is very large, 

 occupying nearly the upper half of the cheek, it is tumid and of an 

 elongated, nearly oval shape ; the preopercle is narrow and obscurely 

 ridged, with a single minute spine at the angle ; the opercle terminates 

 in two widely separated flat points ; the subopercle and interopercle 

 are small. The scales of the head are very small, those of the cheek 

 less indistinct than on the other parts of the head. The mouth is 



* Founded upon Crenidens ptinctatus, Richardson, (Report 1845, 242,) of which 

 a figure appears in III. Ind. Zool. under the name of Girella punctata. 



