SUPPLEMENT, 1888. 
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Page G4. Apogon maceopteeus. Add synonym. 
Apogon lineolatus (ELr.) Cny. and Yal. ii, p. 160 ; Siipp. Atl. p. 47, t. xii, f. 2. 
Page 65. Add Apogon tickelli. 
Apogon pcecilopterus, Cantor, Catal, p. 2 (not Cnv. and Yal.). 
B. vii, D. 6 /tV, P- 13, Y.d./5, A. f, C. 15, L. 1. 24 (26) L. tr. 3/8. 
Length of head 3 to 34, of candal fin 5^, height of body 34 in the total length. Uyes — 
diameter 4 of length of laead, nearly 1 diameter from the end of the snont, and f to 1 
diameter apart. Lower jaw very slightly the longer. The maxilla reaches to slightly behind 
the hind edge of the eye. The posterior edge of the preopercle finely serrated except in a 
small portion of its lower part. A considerable rise from the snont to the base of the first 
dorsal fin. Fins — first dorsal spine one-third the length of the second, which is equal to 
the third and about in the length of the head ; second dorsal somewhat higher than 
the first. Caudal rounded. Scales — finely ctenoid. Colours — pale horn above and below, 
with a slight golden tinge on the opercles : caudal and ventral both having a dark hind 
edge. A round black spot at the root of the caudal fin. 
Hahiiat. — Col. Tickell procured two examples at Akyab (see figure 4’2 inches long, 
“ scale 10/16,” p. 215, MSS.) and it seems to be identical with Cantor’s fish. 
Page 66. For Cheilodipteetjs lineatus read C. mageodon. 
Omit synonyms Perea Uneata, Forsk., P. arahica, Linn., Glieilodipterus lineatus^ Lacep., and 
C. arahicus, Cuv. and Yal. 
Add Paramia macrodon^ Bleeker, Atl. Ich. vii, p. 105. 
Page 66. Add 3. Cheilodipteeus lineatus, also synonym omitted from last species. 
Page 71. Genus Patnia to be included with genus Therapon. 
Page 72. 
Page 80. 
Plate xviii, fig. 8, for P. nageh read P. stridens. 
Add Diageamma cuvieei. 
Bodian cuvieri, Bennett, Fish. Ceylon, p. 13, pi. xiii. 
Diagramma sehce, Bleeker, Sciasnidse, p. 24. 
Plectorliynclms sebce, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. Perc. t. xxvii, f. 3. 
Piagramma lessonii, Gunther, Catal. i, p. 329, and Fische Siidsee, p. 28, t. xxiii (not Cuv. 
and Yah). 
Piagramma cuvieri, Playfair, Fish. Zanzibar, p. 28. 
Plectorhynchus cuvieri, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. viii, p. 21. 
B. vii, D 4Y4L P- 18, Y. 1/5, A. f, C. 15, L. 1. 70, L. tr. 11/30. 
Length of head 34 to 4, of caudal fin 7, height of body 34 in the total length. Byes — • 
diameter 24 to 34 iu the length of the head, I 4 diameters from the end of the snout, and 
1 apart. The maxilla reaches nearly to beneath the front edge of the eye. Yertical limb 
of preopercle serrated. Fins — dorsal spines slightly higher than the rays, the second to 
the fourth being of about the same length, and the longest in the fin, while each is about 
equal to one-third of the height of the body ; second anal spine the longest and strongest. 
Scales — ctenoid. Colours — silvery with horizontal grayish or brownish bands, the upper 
of which are wider than the ground colour, these bands unite anteriorly over the nape 
and snout, while the upper ones end posteriorly at the base of the dorsal fin. Fins 
yellowish, the dorsal, caudal and anal with some dark bands and spots and dark outer 
edges. 
A specimen 74 inches long received from Madras through the kindness of Mr. Thurston, 
has D , which is very intex^esting, as showing how great a valuation in the number of 
spines and rays may exist, for the usual numbers ai-e D yf-TF- 
Habitat . — From the East Coast of Africa, to Ceylon, Madi’as, and the Malay Archipelago 
to 380'" : and in the British Museum to 14f inches. 
Page 81, Diageamma geiseum. Add synonym. 
Piagramma jay aliari, Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 656. 
This differs from the types in having one more spine and ray in the dorsal fin, or 
D 13/22, but Ml". Thurston has lately sent me a specimen from Madras with D 12/22. Some 
error occurred in Mr. Boulenger’s desci-iption, for if “ the greatest depth of the soft dorsal 
equals the length of the longest spine, or seven-eighths the depth of the body,” this fin 
would be enormously developed. However, we are also informed that the longest dorsal 
