ACANTHOrTERYGir. 
115 
Centropogon indicus, bp. n., Day, op. cit. p. 155, pi. xxxviii. fig^ 2, 
Madras. 
Synancia verrucosa, Bl. On poisonous wounds inflicted by this species ; 
note in Tids. Naturvid. (5) v. p. 84. 
Pseudo synanceia, g. n. Has vomerine teeth ; if these are inconstant, 
will be identical with Leptosynancia, Blkr. P. melanostigma, sp. n., 
Kurrachee. Day, op. cit. p. 163, pi. Iv. fig. 6. 
BeRYCID2E. 
Grammicolepidi, fam. nov. Tail without armature, ventrals with 
more than five soft rays, two free anal spines, caudal vertebrae numerous 
(10 -f- 36), scales very broad, smooth. Grammicolepis, g. n. Body 
high, compressed, eye large, mouth small, head partially rugose, as also 
the pres- and inter- operculum, branchiostegals apparently in Small 
number, teeth reduced to asperities, palate toothless, two dorsals, the 
first short, the second very long and gradually increasing in height; pec- 
torals short and rounded, soft rays of dorsal, anal, and pectorals not 
branched. Type, '^G. hrachiusculus, sp. n., D. A. tV, Poey, An. Soc. 
Esp. ii. [1873], pp. 403-407, pi. xii. Ilavana. 
Trachichthys intermedius, Hector, Ann. N. H. (4) xv. p. 79, Cape 
Farewell ; T. trailli^ Hutton, op. cit. xvi. p. 315, New Zealand : spp. nn. 
Holocentrum riparium, sp. n., Poey, An. Soc. Esp. iv. p. Ill, Cuba. 
Holocentrum diphxiphus^ Gthr., redescribed by Gunther with the 
remark that II. lacteoguttatum^ punctatissimum, and stercus-muscarum, 
C. V., are founded upon young examples which are more or less speckled 
like the young of this species, J. Mus. Godeffr. ix. 97. The other 
species noticed in the same work are : — H. diadema, Lac^p., p. 97, 
microstoma^ Gthr. (= H. taliiticum, Kner, nec fig.), p. 98, pi. Ixiv. b., 
erythrmum, Gthr., p. 99, pi. Ixiii. B, furcatum^ Gthr., p. 99, pi. Ixiv. A, 
sammara, tahiticum, Kner, fig. nec descript.), p. 100, operculare^ 
C. V., p. 100, pi. Ixvi. A. IcBvey Gthr., p. 101, pi. Ixv. b. 
Kurtid.®. 
Pempheris mangula^ C. V. (= otaitensis, C. V.), redescribed and 
figured by Gunther, J. Mus. Godeffr. ix. p. -102, pi. lix. b. 
POLYNEMID^. 
Polynemus pleheius and sexfilis redescribed by Gunther, 1. c. pp. 103 
& 104, and the former figured, pi. Ixxvii. A. 
SC1.ENID.®. 
Revised arrangement of this family ; Bleeker, Verb. Ak. Amst. xiv. 
pp. 1-62. 
Gunther remarks that one of the most curious facts in the geogra- 
phical distribution of marine fishes is the absence of this family from the 
