1158 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. [Nov. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, 



Moluccas, Batavia, Japan. 



Total length : 3f inch. 



The length of the head is contained 4 J times in the total : its great- 

 est vertical diameter equals the length. The profile between the eyes 

 is not convex, but somewhat concave, owing to a slight projection of the 

 upper margin of the orbit, thus intersecting the profile. The diameter 

 of the eye is a little less than \ of the length of the head ; the orbit 

 occupies the upper half, nearer the muzzle than the gill-opening. The 

 greatest vertical diameter of the body, at the origin of the dorsal fin, is 

 about ^ of the total length. The stomach is thick, leathery, with four 

 larger and two smaller appendicula ccecopylorica. The intestinal canal 

 is f of the length of the fish. The gall bladder is long, linear. The 

 air-vessel large, thick ; the anterior third is rounded, joined by a con- 

 striction to the posterior oval portion. A single young individual was 

 observed at Pinang in May 1845. 



Gen. Toxotes, Cuvier 1817. 

 Body short and compressed ; dorsaMn placed on the posterior half 

 of the back, with very strong spines ; soft part of dorsal and anal 

 scaly ; muzzle depressed, short ; lower jaw projecting beyond the 

 upper ; velvety teeth in the jaws, vomer, palatals, pterygoids and on 

 the tongue ; lower margin of infraorbital and preopercle finely toothed ; 

 branchiostegous rays 7. 



Toxotes jaculator, (Pallas). 

 Sciaena jaculatrix, Pallas: Spicil. Fasc. 8, 41. 

 Sciaena jaculatrix, Hommel : Phil. Transact. LVI. 1766. p. 187. 

 Scarus schlosseri, Linne : Syst. 1282. 



Sciaena jaculatrix, Bonnaterre : Encycl. Method. PI. d'Ichthyol. 121. 

 Scarus schlosseri, Lacepede IV. 5, 17. 

 Labre sagittaire, Lacepede III. 425, 463. 

 Scarus schlosseri, Shaw, IV. 398. 

 Labrus jaculator, ibid. 485, PI. 68. 

 Toxotes jaculator, Cuv. It. A. II. 196. 



Coius chatareus, Buchan. Hamilton, 101, 370, PI. 14, Fig. 34, 

 Toxotes jaculator, Cuv. and Val. VII. 314, PI. 129. 

 Toxotes jaculator, Swainson, II. 214. 



