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Show 658 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON [Dec. 20, MULLID.E. 51. MULLOIDES FLAVOLINEATUS, Lacep. 52. MULLOIDES ZEYLONICUS, C. & V. D,7\. A. £-. L. lat. 38. L. tr. f. Depth of the body five and a half times in the total length, length of the head four and a half times, Interorbital space once and a half the diameter of the eye, which measures nearly half the length of the snout. Red, with a rather indistinct yellow lateral band ; fins orange. Distinguished from M. flavolineatus by the more elongate shape, the broader vertex, and the red coloration. 53. UPENEUS MACRON EMUS, Lacep. 54. UPENEUS CYCLOSTOMA, Lacep. 55. UPENEUS DISPILURUS, Playf. SPARID.E. 56. SARGUS RONDELETII, var. CAPENSIS, Smith. Like the specimen from Maculla, south coast of Arabia, noticed by Playfair and Giinther (Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 43) ; differing from the Mediterranean and Atlantic S. rondeletii in the indistinctness of the four or five blackish cross bands, and in the series of incisors forming a rather stronger curve. The same form has been well described by Steindachner (SB. Ak. Wien, lxxiv. 1877, p. 203), from specimens obtained in the Persian Gulf and at Madagascar, and named S. kotschyi. 57. LETHRINUS LONGIROSTRIS, Playf. 58. LETHRINUS MAHSENA, Forsk. 59. LETHRINUS RAMAK, Forsk. 60. PAGRUS RUBER, sp. n. D. g. A. J. L. lat. 52-53. L. tr. jH. Length of the head one fourth of the total ; the diameter eye equals the width of the interorbital space, and is contained about once and two thirds in the distance from the mouth ; a protuberance between and in front of the eyes ; the maxillary does not extend to below the anterior border of the eye ; prseorbital once and one fourth as long as deep ; six or seven series of scales on the praeoperculum, the edge of which is* not crenulated. Depth of the body twice and a half in the total length. First and second dorsal spines extremely small, scarcely projecting ; third longest, compressed and curved, its length one third to one fourth the depth of the body; the membrane between the longer, spines very short. Second anal spine slightly longer, but not stronger than the third. |