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Show 1887.] FISHES FROM MUSCAT. 659 Pectoral reaching to below the second soft dorsal ray, and one third in the total length. Red. Total length 1 foot 8| inches. Two specimens: adult dry, half-grown in spirit. 61. PAGELLUS AFFINIS, sp. n. D. g; A. i. L. lat. 60. L. tr. 1 Molar teeth smaller than in P. erythrinus, in two series in both jaws. Length of the head one fourth of the total; eye nearer the end of the snout than the extremity of the gill-cover ; the diameter of the eye equals the width of the interorbital space, and one fourth the length of the head, and is contained once and a half in that of the snout; maxillary not reaching to the vertical of the eye ; prae-orbital two thirds as deep as long, the maxillary edge slightly notched ; six series of scales between the praeorbital and the angle of the praeoperculum ; posterior nostril ovate. Depth of the body one third of the total length. The length of the third dorsal spine equals its distance from the lateral line. The pectoral fin reaches to below the origin of the soft dorsal. Red ; each scale on the upper half of the body with a dark central spot; these spots forming ten longitudinal series. Total length 1 foot 2 inches. A single specimen, stuffed. A second specimen, a skin from the Cape of Good Hope, is in the British Museum, and has been noticed under P. erythrinus by Gunther (Cat. Fishes, i. pp. 474, 475), as belonging probably to a new species. 62. CHRYSOPHRYS SARBA, Forsk. 63. CHRYSOPHRYS BIFASCIATA, Forsk. 64. CHRYSOPHRYS HASTA, Bl. Schn. SCORP-ENID^E. 65. PTEROIS VOLITANS, Gm. 66. PTEROIS LUNULATA, Schleg. 67- PTEROIS MILES, Benn. TEUTHIDID_E. 68. TEUTHIS JAVUS, L. 69. TEUTHIS ORAMIN, Bl. Schn. T. albopunctata, Schleg. BERYCID.E. 70. MYRIPRISTIS MURDJAN, Forsk. 71. HOLOCENTRUM RUBRUM, Forsk. |