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An example from tlie Isle of France exists in He National Museum ; another is in the 
Paris Museum, received from M. Lienard, of the Mauritius, and the coloured figure of a 
Madras specimen termed 8emharra punnee, Pam., exists in the late Sir Walter Elliot’s 
collection made at Madras. 
Page 24. Seeeanus guttatus. 
It has been my belief that this is a variety of the 8. liemistictus, the latter •wanting the 
cross bands. 8. guttatus was figured in colours in the Fische de 8udsee by the late 
INIr. Ford, and as the specimen was superior to mine I requested him to employ the same 
fish for my uncoloured representation. He did so, but the bands had faded, and now 
the Slidsee figure is referred to as 8. guttatus, mine as 8. liemistictus. As both were from 
the identical specimen by the same artist, it affords an additional argument that they are 
varieties of one species. 
Page 25. Seeeanus leopardus. Add to s3monymy. 
8 err anus sexmaculatus, Rilpp. Atl. Fische, p. 107. 
Serranus zanana, Cuv. and Val. ii, p. 339. 
Page 27. Yaeiola louti. Add to synonymy. 
8erranus jiavimarginatus, Hiipp. Atl. p. 109. 
8erranus novemcinctus, Kner, Novara Fische, p. 17, t. ii, f. 1. 
Page 27. For Anthias multiuens road Apeion peistopoma. Add synonyms. 
Pristipomoides Bleeker, Sumatra, p. 675. 
Fentex pristopoma, Bleeker, Celebes, p. 216. 
Mesoprion dentex, Bleeker, Enum. Pise. p. 20. 
Lutjanus dentex, Bleeker, Amboina, p. 278. 
Clicetopterus pristipoma, Bleeker, Cbeetop. p. 83, and Fish. Madagascar, t. x. 
Anthias multidens, Day, Fish. India, p. 27, pi. vii, f. 4. 
Aprion pristipoma, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. viii, p. 79; Perc. t. Iviii, f. 3. 
Centopristis pristopoma, Klunzinger, Fisc. Both. Meer, p. 16. 
Add Genus. Aphareus, Cuv. and Yah 
Branchiostegal.s seven, pseudoiranchice. Body ohlong. Cleft of mouth wide and oblique, the 
lower jaw the longer. Preopercle and preorhital entire. Canines alj sent, palate edentulous, 
A single dorsal fin, ivith the front portion the highest, spines (10-12) feeble : caudal forhed. 
8cales small. Air-bladder simple. A respiratory cavity behind the bra^ichice. Pyloric 
appendages few. 
Page 27. Aphaeeus eutilans. 
Aphareus rutilans, Cuv. and Yah vi, p. 490 ; Biippell, N.W.P. p. 121 ; Bleeker, Amboina, 
p. 52, and Atl. Ich. vii, Perc. t. xxi, f. 2 ; Giinther, Catah i, p. 386 ; Klunz. F.R.M. 
p. 45. 
Aphareus fur catus, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. viii, p. 80. 
B. viii, D. ifAl- P. 16, Y. 1/5, A. |, C. 17, L. 1. 65-70, Ccec. pyh 5. 
Length of head 4, of caudal fin 3|- to 3f, height of body 4f to 5 in the total length. 
Byes — diameter 4 in the length of the head, li diameters from the end of the snout and 1 
apart. Teeth — anteriorly in two or three rows, in a single row posteriorly. Fins — fourth 
and fifth dorsal spines the highest in the fin ; last dorsal and anal rays prolonged to twice 
the length of the penultimate ones; caudal deejaly forked. Colours — rosey, darkest along 
the back, with a yellow blotch between each ray of the dorsal fin near their bases ; caudal 
lobes with dark tips. 
Bleeker considered this species to be identical with Labriis fur catus, Lacep,, or Aphareus 
ccerulescens, Cuv. and Yah 
Habitat . — Bed Sea to the Malay Archipelago. Obtained at Ceylon by Mr. Haly. 
Page 28. Add Grammistes punctatus. 
Cuv. and Yah vi, p. 504 ; Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, 1875, p. 11, t. ii, f. B; Bleeker, 
Fish. Madagascar, 1874, p. 24, t. xiii, and Atl. Ich. vii, p. 69, Perc. t. lix, f. 5. 
B. vi, D. 7 /tV, P. 16, Y. 1/5, A. 11, C. 17. 
Length of head 3^, of caudal fin 7, height of body 4 in the total length. Byes — high 
up, diameter 5-| in the length of the head, about ^ a diameter apart. Lower jaw the 
longer. Yertical limb of preopercle with spinate denticulations : three spines on opercle, 
A barbel, rather longer than one diameter of the eye, at the symphysis of the lower jaw. 
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