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7. APOGON SCHLEGELI Bleeker. 



-l;jor/ou Jiort'»i/W..rvV,^,,>,. Schle(;el, Fauna Japonica, Vo^^., 184H, 



Nagasaki (not of Cuvier and Valenciennes). ' 



Apogon .rhhgeU Blkeker, Verhand. Batav. Geno<,ts., XXVI, p. oo, after Scldegel 

 Head n in length; depth ^f ; depth of ..ludal peduncle 2i in head- 

 eye 3; interorbital space -tf; .snout 4i; nuixillaiy 2; D. VII-I. !♦; A.' 

 II, 8; scales in lateral series Uo; in transverse series 9. 



Body rather elongate: the back little elevated; the head rather 

 pointed. Lye large; the diameter nuich greater than length of snout- 

 interorbital space convex; dorsal rim of orbit not projectino- u))ove 

 contour of head. Jaus equal; maxillary extending to a vertical throuo-h 

 posterior edge of pupil. Serrations of preopercle rather weak. Fins 

 high: third spine of dorsal large and strong; when depressed the third 

 fourth, and lifth spines reach past the insertion of soft dorsal \nai 



Flfi. 5.— APocoX SCHI.EriF.I.I. 



fin when depressed reaching farther posteriorlv than does the soft 



dorsal, both falling far short of base of caudal. Caudal well forked. 



Ventrals reaching a little beyond anal opening. Scales large and thin. 



Color in lite dirty gray, washed with pink; top of head reddish- 



about six longitudinal stripes, the upper olive, the lower brassv vellow' 



antei-iorly more or less red; stripes on top of head brick red; a laro-e 



black caudal spot; tins all carmine. AI)out eight dark stripes on top 



of head between eyes; a distinct stripe from eve to caudal spot; another 



abov-e this from snout, across upper part of eve, fading out before 



reaching caudal spot; anoth(u- above this, just above lateral line from 



nape to caudal, bent downward on reaching base of caudal fin; another 



below the first one from anal to base of caudal, this one bent upward 



as the other is downward, so as to form backward convergincr lines 



above and below caudal spot; traces of another band on eve licross 



cheek and side of belly f, anal: still another more or less distinct on 



