SUPPLEMENT, 1888. 
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Page 264. Eor Sillago domina read S. panuius. Add synonym. 
Glieilodi]pterus panijius, Ham. Bnch, Pish Ganges, pp. 57, 367. 
Page 267. For Pseudocheomjs xanthoohir read S. fuscus. Add synonym. 
Pseudochromis fuscus and adiistus, Mull, and Trosch. Hor^ Ich. 1849, p. 23, t. iv, f. 2 ; 
Bleeker, Atl. Ich. ix, SciEenidee, t. v, f. 4. 
Col. Tickell figured two varieties of a species of this genus taken at Saddle Island, off 
Kyouk Phoo. He gave the D. 22, A, 13-14, and stated that the scales were large. The 
one he termed Malacocantlius coccinicauda being of dark burnt umber colour, becoming a 
little purplish below. Pins pale brown. Dorsal rays vermilion. Anal with a pale red 
band along its centre. Caudal deep carmine. The second, M. hicolor, had the anterior half 
of its body yellow olive-green, its posterior half superiorly including eyes, dorsal, caudal, 
and anal fins sepia, upper and lower margins and angle of caudal whitish gray. Pectoral 
and ventral yellowish. A row of small irregular spots of a smalt colour along the middle 
of the posterior half of the body. 
Page 278. Add Genus 2 — Trigla, Artedi. 
Moplonotus, Guichenot. 
PrancMostegals seven: pseudobranchice present. Head parallelopiped, with its superior and 
lateral surfaces bony. Villiform teeth in both jaws, and usually on the vomer, but none on the 
palatines. Two dorsal fins, the first being of less extent than the second: three free filaments 
at the base of the pectoral fin. Air-bladder well developed, generally provided with lateral 
muscles, and sometimes partially divided internally by partitums. Pyloric appendages few or 
in moderate numbers. 
Geographical distonbution. — Coasts of Europe, and one species extending across the North 
Atlantic to the western shores of North America. To the south it passes round the west 
coast of Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, and one species has been obtained 
in the Persian Gulf on one hand, and also in Japan ; consequently it is hero inserted as 
Indian. 
1. Trigla hemtstigta. 
Temm. and Schlegel, Fauna Japon. Poiss. p. 36, pi. xiv, f. 3, 4, pi. xiv, B. ; Gunther, 
Catal. ii, p. 201. 
Trigla arabica, Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, page 663. 
B. vii, D. 7/11-12, P. 11 + iii, Y. 1/5, A. 11-12, C. 16. 
Length of head about 3, of caudal fin 5|, height of body 5f in the total length. Hyes — ■ 
lA diameters from the end of the snout, and 1^ apart. Profile from upper edge of orbit to 
the snout scarcely concave. Preorbital produced anteriorly into a flattened spine ; two 
spines on the preopercle, the upper the larger. Opercle ending posteriorly in a strong- 
spine equalling the diameter of the orbit ; shoulder bone with two spines. Teeth — 
villiform. Fins — dorsal spines strong, the third and fourth the longest. A bony plate along 
the base of the dorsal fin, wider in small than in large examples. Pectoral reaches to above 
the third anal ray, three free appendages. Scales — small. (7oZo?trs— upper part of body 
rosy, with numerous small rounded or oblong black spots : lower half of body white. 
First dorsal with a large black oblong blotch and a row of small round black dots along 
the middle of the second dorsal: inter- radial membrane of pectoral bluish-black. 
Habitat. — An example 9 inches long has been obtained from Muscat, the species has like- 
wise been brought from Japan. 
Page 278. Genus 3 — Peristethus, Kaup. 
Branchiostegals seven : pseudobranchice present. Head parallelepiped in shape, the sides 
and, upper surface cuirassed with bone : the preorbital prolonged anteriorly into a flat 
projecting process. One or more barbels on the lower jaw. Teeth abserit. One or two dorsal 
fins, the posterior of tohich is most developed. Tivo free pectoral appendages. Body covered 
ivith bony, scale-lihe plates. Pyloric appendages few, or in moderate nu7nbers. Air-bladder 
present. 
Geographical distribution. — From the south coast of Britain to the Mediterranean, also 
from the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to China. It has likewise been obtained at the Sand- 
wich Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. 
Page 278. Peristethus halet. 
Peristethus, Haly, The Taprobanian, vol. i, 1886, p. 165. 
B. vii, D. 7/15, y. 1/5, A. 15, L. 1. 34. 
