1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes, 1057 



Silvery brownish white ; abdomen buff ; on the back and sides as 

 far as the pectoral fin six parallel longitudinal bands, Van Dyke brown, 

 each enclosed by two black lines ; fin-membranes yellowish white, all 

 except the pectoral minutely dotted with brown ; the margin of the 

 spinal part of the dorsal black ; the upper half of the soft part, and 

 the posterior margin of the caudal blackish. Iris golden. 

 D 12/15, C 17f, A 3/9, V 1/5, P 17, Br. VII. 

 Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Madras, Vizagapatam. 

 Total length : 6 inch. 



The figure of Russell represents the dorsal spines much too slender, 

 and the caudal fin too deeply cleft. It is also defective in not repre- 

 senting the minute scales half covering the membrane of the dorsal 

 rays, of the caudal, anal and of the ventrals. A single individual ob- 

 served at Pinang in 1845, had nine anal rays, (the last one double.) 

 Pristipoma caripa, Cuvier. 

 Anthias maculatus, Bloch, PL 326. Fig. 2 ? 

 Lutjan tachete, Lacepede, IV. 239. 

 Russell CXXIV. Caripe. 

 Pristipoma caripa, Cuv. R. A. II. 176 (L> 

 Pristipoma caripa, Cuv. and Val. V. 261. 

 Head above and back brownish black, sides silvery brownish white ; 

 cheeks and abdomen silvery white, bluish on the opercles ; over the 

 infraorbitals an oblique blackish band, edging the orbit ; a second from 

 the occiput, edging the margin of the preopercle and the opercle ; a 

 third in front of the dorsal to just beneath the lateral line ; three or 

 four blackish spots along the back, three larger, placed in quincunx 

 towards the former, along the lateral line ; membrane of dorsal spines 

 hemi-transparent, edged and minutely dotted with black, and with a 

 large black spot between the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th spine ; upper 

 half of the soft dorsal minutely dotted with black, and with a small 

 indistinct blackish spot in front of the six anterior rays ; the other 

 fins pale yellowish white ; the membrane of the caudal and anal minutely 

 dotted with brown. Iris golden. 



D 12/14, C 17f A 3/7, V 1/5, P 16 or 17, Br. VII. 

 Habit. — Sea of Pinang, 



Batavia, Coromandel, Malabar. 



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