THE FISHES OF MALABAR. 
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* Serranus formosus. 
Raiitee bontoo, Bussell , pi. 129. 
Serranus formosus, Cuv. & Val. ii. p. 311 ; Gunther , Catal. i. p. 154. 
B.vii. D. yg. P.15. V.l A. C. 17. L.r. 75. 
Length of head nearly ^ of total length. Eyes, diameter T 2 g of length of head. Preopercle 
finely and evenly serrated; suhopercle with some serratures: interopercle entire. Three strong 
spines on the opercle. 
Colours—When alive extremely brilliant, but they soon fade after death ; snout pale blue, lips 
and throat spotted with a deeper blue, and fillets of the same colour diverge from the orbit, and cross 
the yellow opercle, and branchial membrane. Back and sides variegated alternately with azure 
and dark yellow fillets. Dorsal interspinous membrane pale blue, edged with yellow; the other 
fins azure striped with dusky yellow. 
Habitat—Seas of India, Malaysia, and China. 
Genus GENYOROGE, Cantor. 
Diacope, Cuv. & Val. 
Branchiostegals, seven. Preopercle with a notch above its angle as deep as broad, receiving a more or 
less spinous knob of the interopercle. Opercle with two or three flat spines. Dorsal fin single, with from 
ten to eleven, rarely more, spines; anal with three. Teeth vilhform, with canines in both jaws : teeth on 
palatines : tongue smooth, scales moderate. 
Genyoroge cceruleopunctata. 
Kallee maee, Bussell , pi. 96. 
Diacope cceruleopunctata, Cuv. & Val. ii. p. 424. 
Genyoroge cceruleopunctata, Gunther , Catal. i. p. 182. 
B.vii. D. Rl. P.16-17. Y. l. A. C. 17. L. 1. 45-50. L. tr.j^. 
Length of head of pectoral of caudal of base of dorsal of base of anal of total 
length. Height of head of body b, of hard dorsal of soft dorsal of ventral 1, of anal i of 
the total length. 
Eyes—Transversely oval, horizontal diameter 3§, and vertical diameter 4§ in the length of the 
head, rather more than 1 diameter from the end of snout, and l 2 a diameter apart. 
The profile rises considerably to the commencement of the dorsal fin, the eye is close to the 
summit of the head. 
The maxilla extends backwards as far as the anterior margin of orbit: openings of nostrils 
in front of upper quarter of orbit. Preorbital with an irregular lower margin. Preopercle, 
vertical limb finely serrated, even in its notch which is situated close to where it makes its inferior 
curve, angle rounded, lower limb rather oblique, more coarsely serrated than its vertical margin. 
Sub- and interopercles entire, the latter with a large triangular tuberosity directed a little 
upwards and backwards and received into the preopercular notch; opercle with two flattened spines, 
the lower the largest. 
Teeth—Yilliform in both jaws in three or four rows, with an external series about three times 
the size of the others : two large canines in each intermaxillary. Yilliform teeth on vomer and palate. 
Fins—Dorsal spines very strong, increasing in length to the third, whilst from the fifth they 
