1098 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. [Nov. 



Elacate bivittata, Cuv. and Val. 



Elacate bivittata, Cuv. and Val. VIII. 338. 



Elacate bivittata, Temm. Schl. Fauna Japon. Pise. 104, PI. LVI. 



Elacate bivittata, Richardson, Report, 1845, 269. 



Head above and back inky, or bluish black ; from the posterior part 

 of the orbit to the root of caudal, a pale silvery longitudinal band, 

 dotted with black ; from the shoulder, enclosing the posterior f of the 

 lateral line, an intense bluish black band ; beneath which a narrower, 

 pale silvery, dotted with black ; under which a bluish black ; throat 

 and abdomen pale silvery, dotted with black ; upper half of sides of the 

 head silvery blackish ; lower half : pale silvery dotted with black ; dorsal 

 free spines, and all fin rays whitish ; their membranes pale greyish, 

 minutely dotted with brown so as to acquire a general brownish, or 

 bluish black appearance ; caudal whitish at the root, and with a white 

 triangular spot at the upper and lower angle ; in some the posterior 

 margin whitish ; pectorals whitish at the root, the rest intense black. 

 Iris silvery, minutely dotted with black. 



D 8—2/30, 34, 35 or 36, C 17jf, A. 2/25, 26, 27 or 28, V 1/5, 



P 20, Br. VII.. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, Singapore. 



Moluccas, Japan, China Seas. 



Total length : 2 feet. 



The length of the head is \ of the total. The eye is surrounded by 

 a large circular adipose membrane. The transversal diameter of the 

 orbit is ^, the vertical \ of the length of the head. The distance of the 

 orbits across the forehead slightly exceeds their transversal diameter. 

 The diameter of the eye itself is \ of the length of the head. Besides 

 the cardlike teeth of both jaws, the vomer and the palatals, the whole of 

 the roof of the mouth between the three latter bones, the tongue and the 

 innerside of the gums are covered with velvety teeth. As in E. pondi- 

 ceriana, Cuv. and Val. the upper surface of the cranium has on each 

 side a fascicle of striae, radiating forwards and backwards. They are 

 indeed less apparent during life and in specimens preserved in spirits, 

 than in dried ones, which probably accounts for M. M. Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes describing the surface as nearly smooth (VIII. p. 338.) 

 On each opercle appear upwards of 9 backwards radiating, sharp striae. 

 Each side of the occiput and the cheeks are covered with small oval, 



