1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1063 



probable that Colonel Farquhar's drawing, upon which the description 

 is founded represents a young individual of L. erate. Single individu- 

 als weighing upwards of 15ibs, occur at Pinang at all seasons, and are 

 dried by the natives. The air-vessel is very large, about ^ of the total 

 length, silvery white and of a lanceolate shape. It is excessively thin, 

 and so firmly adhering to the back, that but a small part can be re- 

 moved. The isinglass is by the Chinese dealers considered to be 

 of good quality, but the small quantity procurable renders the fish less 

 valuable in this respect. 



Gen. Scolopsis, Cuvier, 1817. 

 (Scolopsides, Telfair t 1830.) 

 The second infraorbital bone terminating in a rounded lobe, gene- 

 rally toothed, with a backwards directed spine at the angle adjoining 

 the orbit ; third infraorbital with a forwards directed spine, in some 

 hid in the skin, crossing the former ; preopercle toothed ; submaxillary 

 pores either absent or very minute ; body oval or oblong with large 

 scales ; dorsal fin single ; mouth moderate ; teeth velvety ; branchio- 

 stegous rays five. 



Scolopsis aurata, (Mungo Park.) 

 Perca aurata, Mungo Park : Tr. Linn. Soc. III. 35. 

 Anthias vosmeri, Bloch, PI. 32 1 . 

 Lutjanus vosmeri, Lacepede, IV. 213. 

 Lutjan galon-d'or, Lacep. IV. 216. 

 Pomacentrus enneadactylus, Lacep. IV. 505, 508. 

 Scolopsides vosmeri, Cuv. R. A. II. 178 (L) 

 Scolopsis argyrosomus, Kuhl and Van Hasselt, Cuv. and 



Val. V. 333. 

 Scolopsides vosmeri, Cuv. and Val. V. 333. 

 Head above red ; back pale bluish green ; sides light red with two 

 indistinct mother-of-pearl coloured longitudinal bands above the lateral 

 line, beneath which a third broader and distincter, terminating opposite 

 the soft dorsal fin ; cheeks, opercles and abdomen reddish white ; in- 

 fraorbitals greenish golden ; all the scales, the infraorbitals, preopercle 

 and opercle with vermilion edges ; membrane of dorsal, anal and ven- 

 trals whitish transparent, spines and rays vermilion ; caudal and pecto- 

 ral membrane and rays pale vermilion. Iris reddish golden. 

 D 10/9, C 17|, A 3/7 or 8 V 1/5 P 19, Br. V. 



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