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Genus Myripristis Cuvier. 



21yripnsti:i Cuvier, Règne Anim., 2d ed., II, 1829, p. 150. 

 Type Myripristis jacoluis Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



341. Myripristis mnrdjan (Forakal). 



Aka-matsukasa (Xa«,'asaki). 

 Scicena niurdjan Forskal, Descr. Anim., 1775, p. 48. Djida, Red Sea. 

 Distrib. — Nagasaki to Kagoshima ; Formosa ; Hawaii ; Samoa ; Harvey Is. ; 



Tahiti ; Fiji ; Paumotu Is.; Guam; Lays an ; New Hebrides; Ra'atea ; 



Rarotonga ; Fast Indies. 



342. Myripripristis macrolepis Bleeker. 



Aka-yoroi. * 



Myripristis macrolepis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth., IX, pi. CCCLIX, fig. 3. 

 Distrib. — Tanegashima (Snyder ms.). 



Family POI.Y.^IIXIID.E. 



Genus Polymixia Lowe. 



Polyinixia Lowe, Trans. Cambr. Phii. Soc, 183S, p. 19S. 

 Type Polymixia nobilis Lowe. 



