2S8 EXPEDITION OF THE " ALHATROSS/' lS99-190n. 



ventrals 1.59, reaching just to vent; dorsal X, ISi, fourth spine longest, longest 

 ray 3.5 in head; anal III, 8, second anal spine longest, 2.85 in head, longest 

 ray 2.35 in head; preopercle strongly notched; a conspicuous knob on opercle; 

 six rows of scales on cheeks; scales above lateral line in oblique series; counting 

 from front of dorsal to lateral line there are 8 scales, from anal to lateral line 13, 

 scales above lateral line 54, below 48, the formulae being 8-48 to 54-13; no 

 lingual teeth. 



Color, greenish gray on back, lighter line of same color on side and belly; 

 dorsal yellowish with light green spines and dusky spines and rays and a broad 

 white-edged dusky margin; caudal very dusky with a narrow white terminal 

 margin, more distinct in middle; other fins all paler; faint light streaks follow- 

 ing rows of scales, running obliciuely ujnvard and backward above lateral line, 

 horizontally below. 



This is close to L. marginata but differs in having a considerably smaller 

 eye and somewhat smaller mouth, and it may be Diacope striata or D. axillaris 

 of Cuvier & Valenciennes, but the descriptions are too incomplete to make the 

 identification certain. 



THERAPONIDAE. 



Therapon maculatus, spec. nov. 



I'lafr 4, fiqure 2. 



Eight specimens, No. 08924, 2 to 5 inches long from Suva, Fiji Islands. 

 M. C. Z. 29494 (2 specimens). 



Type, No. 66061 U. S. N. M., 5 inches long, has head 2.86 in length; 

 depth 2.71; eye 3.60 in head; snout 2.5; maxillary 3.27; dorsal XII, 11 ; anal 

 III, 9i; scales ll-60( -t-9)-18; 11 scales from front of dorsal to lateral line and 

 18 from lateral line to anal. 



Longest dorsal spine 2 in head; second anal spine longest, 1.89 in head; 

 preopercle strongly denticulate above angle; fine teeth on lower margin; teeth 

 in upper jaw in many villiform bands in fi'ont, the band changing into about 

 3 rows posteriorly; an anterior row of enlarged mixed, incisor-like and canine- 

 like or curved backward conical teeth, the latter longer than the others; lower 



