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PRISTIPOMATIDiE. 
69. 
Pristipoma stridens. 
[20.] 
Sciaena stridens, Forsk. p. 50. 
Pristipoma simmena, Cuv. 8f Val. v. p. 260. 
stridens, Rupp. N. W. Fische, p. 122, taf. 31. f. 1 ; Giinth. Fish. i. p. 300. 
Zanzibar. Aden. Red Sea. 
DIAGRAMMA, Guv. 
70, Diagramma affine. [659.] 
Pristipoma nigrum, Cant. Mai. Fish, p. 74 (an Cuv. fy Val. ??) . 
Diagramma affine, Giinth. Fish. i. p. 319. 
nigrum, Bay, Fishes of Malabar, p. 23. 
Zanzibar. East-Indian archipelago. North-ivest coast of Australia. 
71. Diagramma griseum. Plate IY. fig. 3, var. b. [16, 330, 565.] 
Diagramma griseum, Cuv. § Val. v. p. 306; Giinth. Fish. i. p. 321. 
12 A _3_ 
* 19 - 21 • 7 - 8 ’ 
L. lat. 74. 
The specimen of this collection marked [16] is the variety described by Cuvier and 
Valenciennes. Nos. [330] and [565] are identical, and constitute a new variety, struc- 
turally the same as the previous, but differing widely as to coloration. 
Var. a [16]. Uniform grey; fins darker. Length 13^ inches. 
Zanzibar. Aden. Malabar. 
Var. b [330, 565]. Colour grey above, white below, with four whitish curved cross 
bands ; the first crosses the forehead and terminates at the angles of the operculum 
and prseoperculum ; the second proceeds from the second dorsal spine, in the direction 
of the root of the ventrals ; the third runs parallel to the last from the seventh and 
eighth dorsal spines ; and the fourth, also parallel, runs from the first anal ray to the 
posterior of anal. Fins blackish, immaculate. Length 4^ to 17 inches. 
Zanzibar. Kiswarra Bay. 
72. Diagramma pertusum. Plate IY. fig. 2. 
Perea pertusa, Thunberg, Nya Handl. Stockh. 1793, xiv. p. 198, pi. 7. f. 1. 
Diagramma thunbergii, Cuv. fy Val. v. p. 308. 
pertusum, Giinth. Fish. i. p. 321. 
( 5-7 
[ 532 .] 
21 - 24 * 
L. lat. 100. 
