308 TELEOSTEI. ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



total length. Eyes diameter 2f in length of head, if diam. 

 from end of snout and the same apart. Snout somewhat broad 

 and rounded in. front, the upper jaw a little the longer. Teeth 

 exceedingly large recurved canines in lower jaw, much smaller in 

 upper; about 14 teeth in a single row in each jaw between the 

 canines. Fins dorsal commences midway between eye and hind 

 edge of opercle, and does not extend quite so far as caudal tin, the 

 height of its longest rays equals two thirds that of body and rather 

 more than that of aiial fin. Colour about ten broad vertical 

 bands extending from base of dorsal to anal, separated by very 

 narrow light lines. Dorsal and anal externally black-edged, and 

 the membrane studded with fine brown spots. Caudal light- 

 coloured. 



Hub. Ceylon, one specimen 1^ inches in length. 



lllfi. (2.) Petroscirtes punctatus. 



Blennechis punctatus, Cuv. $ Val. H. N. Pom. xi, p. 280. 

 Petroscirtes punctatus, Day, Fish. India, p. 326 (see synon.). 



D. 34. P. 12. V. 2. A. 22-23. C. 12. 



Length of head 6|, of caudal fin 8, height of body 6 in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 4| in length of head, f diam. from end 

 of snout and also apart. Snout obtuse. Teeth lower canines 

 large, upper only half their size. Fins dorsal just reaches to 

 base of caudal, posteriorly it is | the height of body ; ventral 

 short, not above half as long as pectoral. Colour- grey, with 

 seven or eight pairs of spots on the body below base of dorsal, 

 and four or five narrow, dark, horizontal lines along body; a dark 

 line along dorsal fin becoming wider behind. In small specimens 

 sometimes there are angular or irregularly directed narrow white 

 bands. 



Hob. Seas of India to Australia. 



1117. (3.) Petroscirtes bipunctatus. 



Petroscirtes bipunctatus, Day, Fish. India, p. 327, pi. Ixxi, fig. 3. 

 D. 33. P. 13. V.2. A. 23. C. 16. 



Length of head 5, of caudal fin 5, height of body 5| in the total 

 length. Eyes diameter 3| in length of head, nearly 1 diam. 

 from end of snout, and 1 apart. Profile of snout obliquely rounded. 

 Teeth twenty-four in upper and twenty-two in lower jaw, lower 

 canines twice as long as upper. Fins dorsal commences over 

 hind edge of opercle, it does not extend to base of caudal. Colour 

 brownish grey, upper surface of anterior half of head and snout 

 blue, narrow blue bands descend from middle of each eye and join 

 on the throat ; another from just behind each eye passes down 

 parallel with the first, two more pass down from opercle to,,base of 

 pectoral. Dorsal and anal fins edged with brown, two dark spots 

 on dorsal. 



Hal. The sea at Calicut. 



