1360 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes* [Dec. 



numerous indistinct whitish spots, and with a broad black band along 

 the posterior margin. Iris bright yellow minutely dotted with black . 

 D 10, C 9£, A 9, P 18, Br. V. 

 Habit. — Sea o/Pinang, 



Vizagapatam. 

 The length of the head is contained A\ times in the total. The eye 

 borders on the profile and occupies nearly the centre of the distance be- 

 tween the muzzle and the gill -opening, but it is on a level above the 

 latter and the pectorals ; the greatest diameter, ascending obliquely back- 

 wards, is J of the length of the head ; the distance between the anterior 

 angles of the orbit is 1 ^ such diameters ; between the posterior angles it 

 is two such. There are no nostrils, but in their place appear two lanceo- 

 late black tentacula, of which the upper one is the longer, both joined at 

 the base. The teeth and tongue are normal. All the fins are rounded. 

 The first dorsal ray is situated a little behind the commencement of the 

 posterior third of the body, the caudal not included ; the two first rays 

 are undivided ; the fifth and sixth, the longest, are contained 2\ times 

 in the head ; the extent is i less ; the distance from the caudal is con- 

 tained 5£ times in the total length. The anal* is situated behind the 

 dorsal, which it resembles ; its distance from the caudal slightly exceeds 

 \ of the total. The length of the caudal is f of the head ; that of the 

 pectorals is a little less than the dorsal. The spines in form and position 

 resemble those of T. testudineus, but above they commence from 

 between the eyes. A single young individual was observed at Pinang in 

 May 1844. 



Sides smooth without spines. 



Tetrodon lunaris, Cuvier. 



Russell, XXIX. Kappa Koorawah. 

 Tetrodon lunaris, Cuv. R. A. Ed. 1, II. 148 ('). 

 Tetrodon tepa, Buchanan Hamilton, 10, and 362. 

 (Icon.) Tetrodon leiopleura, Gray : 111. Ind. Zool. I. PI. 87, Fig. 2, 



(Young.) 

 Tetrodon lunaris, Riippell : Neue Wirbelth. Fische, 59. 



* The position of this fin is correctly described by Russell, but his figure repre- 

 sents it in a much too advanced position. 



