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and on the back and sides appears like the threads of a net, enclosing 
the dark round spots. There are about a dozen spots in a row between 
the gill-opening and caudal fin; P. 17 ; V. 1. 5 ; D. 11. 17 ; A. 3. 9. S. 
stellans, id. p. 23, resembles 8. Parkinsonii and hexagonatus, Cuv. and 
Val. ; P. 16 ; D. 11. 15 ; A. 3. 8. Serranus hiridus, Ranzani, 1. c. v. 
p. 356; P. 15; D. 11. 15; A. 3. 9; fins brown, bordered with black, 
body and head yellowish ; belongs to the group of Merous : habitat the 
Brazils. 
Diacope Sparus, Schlegel, 1. c. p. IT ; D. 10. 10 ; A. 3. 8 ; P. 16 ; 
resembles a Sparus in habit. 
Mesoprion carponotatus, Richardson, Ann. ix. p. 28, back darkish 
and somewhat clouded ; fins unspotted ; a dark spot girdles the base of 
the three upper pectoral rays ; D. 10. 15 ; A. 3. 10 ; P. 14. 
Ranzani also describes two new species of the genus Mesoprion, 1. c. 
V. p. 352. M. hahiensis, P. 15 ; D. 10. 14 ; A. 3. 8 ; head dark-brown, 
back red-brown, other parts reddish-silvery coloured. M. argyreus, P. 16 ; 
D. 10. 12 ; A. 3. 8 ; violet spots on the nape, similar lines before the 
eyes. 
Cirrhites aureus, Schlegel, 1. c. p. 15, uniform golden yellow, the first 
ray of the soft dorsal fin elongated; D. 10. 12 to 13; A. 3. 6 to 7; 
Schlegel, 1. c. p. 15, describes a Japanese Fish under the name of 
Aulacocephalus, of the same size with Centropristes. It has three spines 
on the operculum, the praeoperculum is very strongly dentated on the 
horizontal margin, and the caudal fin is rounded. The colour is violet, 
a yellow band runs on each side to the tail and close under the dorsal fin, 
sinking a little at the anterior end, and goes through the eye to the point 
of the upper jaw: D. 9. 13; A. 3. 10; P. 12. 
Therapon ruhricatus, Richardson, Ann. ix. p. 127, with smaller head 
and larger ventral fins than those of the Th. servus and theraps ; D. 
12. 10; A. 3. 9. 
Therapon (Pelates) oxyrhynchus, Schlegel, 1. c. p. 16 ; body elongated ; 
snout pointed ; palate and vomer without teeth ; bluish-green, with four 
black bands lengthways, between them some indistinct and interrupted 
ones ; D. 12. 10 ; A. 3. 8. 
Schlegel also describes, at the same place, p. 17, a Fish under the 
name of Anoptus, which he places in proximity with Nandus. He 
separates it from Datnia, because it possesses vomer teeth ; and dis- 
tinguishes it from Nandus by the want of palate teeth. It is olive 
brown ; abdominal and caudal fins blackish ; a large black spot anteriorly 
on the dorsal fin ; B. 6 ; D. 10. 13 ; A. 3. 8 ; P. 15. This Fish is figured 
by Krusenstern, pi. 54, ^.l, a, under the name of Banjos. 
Percis emeryana, Richardson, Ann, ix. p. 130 ; the spinous dorsal fin 
is much arched ; D. 5. 21 ; A. 16. 
Sillago hurrus, Richardson, Ann. ix, p. 128, is banded on the sides 
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