1094 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. [Nov. 



Cybium guttatum, Cuv. R. A. II. 200 ('). 



Cybium guttatum, Cuv. and Val. VIII. 173, 



Cybium kuhlii, Cuv. and Val. ibid. 178 (Young). 



Cybium guttatum Richardson, Report, 1845, 268. 



Cybium guttatum, Bleeker: Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. 4. 



Tanggiri papan of the Malays. 



Adult. Membrane of the first seven or nine spines of anterior 

 dorsal fin black, that of the succeeding spines white, minutely dotted 

 with brown, and broadly edged with black ; rest of the body and eyes 

 coloured like Cybium lineolatum. After death appear on the back and 

 upper half of the sides numerous black rounded and oval spots, of 

 different sizes, mostly irregularly scattered, here and there in regular 

 longitudinal series. 



D 18— 4/16— X, C 15i§, A 5/16— IX, V 1/5, P 21, Br. VII. 

 or D 17-5/16— X, A 6/16— IX. 



Young. Ventrals, second dorsal, anal and their spurious fins pale 

 yellowish ; caudal whitish, the root the posterior margin and between 

 the central five rays silvery bluish. Rest of the body like the adult, 

 but no black spots appear after death. 



D 17— 5/17— VII, A 6/16— VII, or D 15— 5/16— VIII, A 6/16— 

 VIII. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula, Singapore. 

 Java, Madura, Malabar, Coromandel. 



Total length : 3 feet. 



The length of the head is ^ of the total, measured to the centre of 

 the posterior caudal margin, but 5^ in the total, measured to the centre 

 of a vertical line between the points of the caudal lobes. The orbit is 

 surrounded by a circular adipose membrane. The diameter of the 

 orbit is ^ of the length of the head. The distance of the eyes across 

 the forehead is 1| diameter. The maxillary teeth are generally shorter 

 and less broad than in C. commersoni or lineolatum. On each side of 

 the upper jaw appear upwards of 19, of the lower upwards of 15 teeth, 

 The velvety teeth are disposed as in C. lineolatum, but they are more 

 numerous, as the whole of the roof of the mouth, bounded in front by 

 the vomer and on each side by the palatals, is studded with patches of 

 teeth. The very .centre of the roof behind the anterior pointed part 

 of vomer, presents a singular appearance : it is covered with linear ele- 



