The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon . nym. Ferca areolata Forsk. p. 42, is identified as this species by Klunzinger. Page 23. For Seeeanus geammicus read S. latifasciatus. Add to synonymy. Serranus latifasciatus, Schlegel, Fauna Jaj^on. Pisces, p. 6; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888,page 259. Having been shown the types of Schlegels fish at Leyden, I found the two specificallyidentical. The earlier stages of growth in all fishes are interesting, more especially as they maybe one means of deciding the origina
The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon . nym. Ferca areolata Forsk. p. 42, is identified as this species by Klunzinger. Page 23. For Seeeanus geammicus read S. latifasciatus. Add to synonymy. Serranus latifasciatus, Schlegel, Fauna Jaj^on. Pisces, p. 6; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888,page 259. Having been shown the types of Schlegels fish at Leyden, I found the two specificallyidentical. The earlier stages of growth in all fishes are interesting, more especially as they maybe one means of deciding the original forms from which certain genera have probablybeen developed. It is, therefore, very desirable that all such should be recorded asdiscovered, even if merely as an incentive to further research. In 1867, I obtained SUPPLEMENT, 1888. 781 some small specimens of a remarkable pei-coid form at Madras that I termed Madmspatensis, but wbiob are the young of Serranus latifasciatus _ I havefigured below in outline the head and contiguous parts of the body three times thenatural size, from a specimen 16 inches In this instance we see a preoperculum with a strong serrated spine at its angle somewhatas observed in the genus Priacanthus, the development of which, and the rate at whichit becomes atrophied with age being most probably factors m the amount of protuberance atthat spot in older fish. There is likewise a small spine on the sub-opercle, whde it is verypeculiar that the ventral spine is strongly serrated internally similar to a siluroid.
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