1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. U27 



Cyrtus indicus, Bloch. 

 Kurtus indicus, Bloch PI. 169. 



(Female ?) 

 Kurtus indicus, Shaw IV. 185, PI. 25. 



Kurtus indicus, Linne, Syst. 1184. 

 Kurtus blochii, Lacep, II. 516 and 517. f 



Russell XLVIII. Somdrum Kara Mooddee. (Male ?) 



Kurtus indicus, Cuv. R. A. II. 215. (Female?) 



Kurtus cornutus, Cv. 1. c. (Male ?) 



Kurtus blochii, Cuv. and Val. IX. 421, PI. 277. (Female?) 



Kurtus cornutus, Cuv. and Val. IX. 426. (Male?) 



Kurtus blochii, Swainson II. 253. 



Kurtus blochii, Bleeker : Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. 4. 



Head above and body flesh-coloured, hemitransparent ; back minutely 

 and closely dotted with black, forming immediately behind the occiput 

 a large rounded spot, from which in some (the males ?) projects the 

 black, downwards arched, horn-like process ; opercles and jaws silvery, 

 with steel blue reflections ; abdomen silvery with rose-coloured, lilac 

 and golden reflections ; pectorals and ventrals whitish, the rest of the 

 fins pale reddish or whitish yellow, minutely dotted with black. Iris 

 silvery, upper orbital margin blackish. 



D 8—2/13, C 17f, A 2/33 or 34, V 1/5, P 23, Br. VII. 



Habit. — Sea of Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 

 Java, Madura, Coromandel, Sandheads. 



Total length : 5 inch. 



The length of the head in a straight line from the symphysis of the 

 lower jaw, is } of the total, measured to the centre of the posterior mar- 

 gin of the caudal, but taken obliquely upwards to the membranous 

 angle of the opercle, it is but % of the total, and equals the depth at occi- 

 put. The diameter of the eye is } of the former length of the head. 

 In each jaw is a band of card-like teeth : in the upper immediately 

 under the symphysis is a naked excavated space, which receives from the 

 lower a corresponding protuberance, covered with teeth ; on the vomer 

 and the palatals appears a single series of excessively minute velvety 

 teeth. On the inferior margin of the preopercle appear three strong 

 backwards arched spines, of which the posterior is the longest and 

 somewhat removed from the others. The angle of the opercle projects 



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