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fin somewhat concave. Fins — Dorsal spine situated over the hind quarter of the eye, 
strong and about as long as the head, armed posteriorly with a donble row of 
recurved spines. Ventral spine movable with small curved spines posteriorly, second 
dorsal and anal fins low : caudal rounded. Scales — small, each with 4 or 5 marginal spines, 
while the male on either side of the tail has a long patch of short setiform spines some- 
times absent from the female. Some short fleshy tentaches on the side of the body. 
ColotiTs — brown, spotted and marbled with black, a light band along the anterior half of 
the body. Caudal fin with two dark vertical bands. 
Halitat. — Obtained by Mr. Haly in August, 1888, at Karativoe, Ceylon ; is found in the 
Malay Archipelago, Chinese and Australian seas. 
Page 708. The Colombo Museum sustained a great loss during my absence last year : a small sun-fish, 
Ortliagoriscus, was brought for sale, but was unfortunately rejected (Haly, in the 
Taprohanian, vol. ii, 1888, p. 165). This may have been the widely ranging 0. mola not 
uncommon off the British coast, and which has been taken in New South Wales, &c., 
and of which Kliinzinger seems to have obtained a specimen in the Red Sea : or it may 
be the form found at Amboina which was described and figured by Bleeker in 1873 as 
0. oxyuropterus : or possibly a nondescript. 
Page 709. Add Diodon maculatus. 
JDiodon tacJietS, Lacep. ii, p. 13. 
„ novem-maculatus, Cuvier, c. fig. ; Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. iii, p. 567. 
„ sex-maculatus and quadrimaculahLS, Cuv. c. fig. ; Kaup, pp. 229, 227. 
„ syinosissimus, Kaup, p. 228 (not Cuv.). 
Paradiodon novem-maculatus, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. v, p. 57, Gym. pi. ii, f. 3. 
,, quadri-maculatus, Bleeker, 1. c. p. 58, pi. viii, f. 2. 
Piodon maculatus, Gunther, Cat. viii, p. 307. 
B. vi, D. 2/13, P. 23, A. 2/12, C. 7. 
Length of head 2| to Si in the length of the body. Eyes — diameter 3|- to 4 in the 
length of the head. Sometimes tentacles above the orbit and on the lower side of the 
head, and on the back. Spines of varying lengths, from 16 to 19 between the snout and 
the dorsal fin : there are generally only two or three posterior to the dorsal fin. The roots 
of these spines are long and strong, and have a distinct ridge along their basal portions. 
Colours — large black yellow-edged blotches on the body of various shapes, and often 
small black spots. The large black spots are in some cases badly defined. 
Habitat. — Tropical portions of the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Archipelago, also the 
Pacific. Pound in the Gulf of Manaar by Sir Walter Elliot, and in Ceylon by Haly. 
Page 716. Add Caecharias murrati. 
Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), xi, p. 137. 
Snout short and obtuse : the distance between the mouth and the end of the snout being 
less than that between the inner angles of the nostrils. Nostrils nearly midway between 
the end of the snout and the mouth. Teeth — in the upper jaw of moderate size, the 
anterior equilateral, rather longer than broad, those on the side oblique, with their posterior 
edges concave, and both sides finely serrated : twenty-nine rows in the lower jaw, lanceolate, 
their edges smooth, with a broad base, two-rooted, and some with an additional minute 
lobe. Fins — first dorsal commences ojiposite the axil of the pectoral : the second only 
one-third of the size of the first, but larger than the anal, which is small : origin of anal 
behind that of the second dorsal. Pectoral large, exceeding the distance between the first 
gill-opening and the end of the snout, the length of its hind margin only one-fourth of 
that of its outer. Caudal of moderate size, rather more than the distance between the two 
dorsal fins. Colours — ^uniform, top of first dorsal may have been black. 
Habitat. — Kurrachee, where an example 6 feet 8 inches long was captured. The specimen 
is stuffed, and not in a good condition. It is very closely allied to C. ellioti, from which 
it differs in the. smaller size of the second dorsal and anal fins, but is probably only a 
variety. 
Page 720. Add Ztgj^na mokarean. 
Riippell, N. W. Pisch. 1835, p. 66, t. xvii, t. 3 ; Gunther, Catal. viii, p. 383 ; Day, Ann. and 
Mag. N. H. (5) XX, 1887, p. 389. 
Spliyrna moharran, Mull, and Henle, Plagios. p. 54. 
