LABUID^E. 411 



Length of head 3|, height of body nearly 3 in the total length. 

 Eyes high up, above 2 diam. from end of snout ; some small scales 

 behind and below orbit. Body strongly compressed ; anterior edge 

 of head sharp. Fins first two dorsal spines produced, and a deep 

 notch in interspinous membrane behind them. Outer ventral ray 

 produced. Colour rosy, becoming yellowish on abdomen ; fins 

 yellowish, except caudal, which has dark greyish reticulated bands. 



Hob. Seas of India. 



1277. (2.) Novacula pentadactyla. 



Coryphaena pentadactyla, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 447. 

 Novacula pentadactyla, Cuv. 8f Vol. H. N. Poiss. xiv, p. 69, pi. 395 ; 

 Day, Fish. India, p. 402 (see synon.). 



D. 2 | 7/12. P. 12. A. 3/12. C. 12. L. 1. 28. 



Length of head 4 to 4|, height of body 3| in the total length. 

 Eyes high up, a diameter from dorsal profile, 4 diam. in length 

 of head, 2 to 2| from end of snout. Height of head hardly exceeds 

 its length. Profile from snout to forehead nearly vertical. Fins 

 first two dorsal spines remote from the rest and longer, interspinous 

 membrane behind them cleft almost to its base. Outer ventral 

 ray rather elongate. Caudal rounded. Scales 8 or 9 rows from 

 eye to behind angle of mouth. Colour light reddish brown, a 

 row of five or six round red spots behind eve, most scales on body 

 with a red basal spot ; a blackish blotch on side of body just below 

 lateral line above end of pectoral. Oblique narrow blue lines on 

 dorsal, two horizontal ones along anal, and several vertical ones on 

 caudal. 



Hob. Bombay, Malay Archipelago, and China. 



1278. (3.) Novacula punctulata. 



Novacula punctulata, Cuv. 8f Vol. H. N. Poiss. xiv, p. 73 ; Day, Fish. 



India, p. 402, pi. Ixxxviii, fig. 2 (see synon.). 

 Chilacka-sani-muyya, Tamil. 

 D. 2 j 7/12. P. 11. A. 3/12. C. 14. L. 1. 27. L. tr. 4/13. 



Length of head 4|, height of body 4| in the total length. Eyes 

 high up, about 3 diameters from end of snout. Profile from snout 

 to forehead very abrupt. Height of head exceeds its length by 

 one third. Fins first two dorsal spines separated by a cleft from 

 remainder of the fin; ventral reaches the anal. Caudal rounded. 

 Scales cheeks with about 8 rows. Colour brownish, a dark spot 

 on side above end of pectoral, most of the scales on body with a 

 blue spot or streak and reddish base ; anterior profile bluish ; fins 

 orange, two blue bands along dorsal, and three along anal, also 

 numerous oblique greyish bands ; vertical blue bands on caudal. 



Hob. Seas of India to China. 



