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8a. Pores in lateral line 48 to 55. 



9a. Pectoral rays ii,13 or 14; dorsal rays viii,12; pores in lateral 

 line 48 to 52; zig-zag scales around caudal peduncle about 40 to 

 52; body with numerous black spots (Reunion Island and 



Mauritius) P. lunulata (Guichenot) ^ 



9b. Pectoral rays i,13; dorsal vni,13; pores in lateral line 54 or 56 



(Panana) P. longilepis (Garman) ' 



8b. Pores in lateral line about 05 to 70; dorsal rays viii,12; pectoral 

 ii,13; sides of body spotted (Japan). 



P. iiiaculata Steindachner and Doderlein ^ 

 2b. Dorsal spines ix (genus Liopropoma)^ 



10a. Dorsal rays ix,12; pores in lateral line 45 (Cuba). 



L. aberrans (Poey)'" 

 10b. Dorsal rays ix,14; pores in lateral line 58 (my count of drawing is 



62 or 63) (Pernambuco, Brazil) L. roseus (Giinther)ii 



lb. Spiny dorsal and soft dorsal fins completely separated externally by a 

 scaled area of 5 to 7 rows across back between fins; dorsal rays vi-i-i,ll 

 or 12; the seventh dorsal spine usually embedded below scales; pores in 

 lateral line 45 to 48; 2% to 5 scales in a row from lateral line to last dorsal 

 spine; zig-zag scales around caudal peduncle 30 to 32; gill rakers 5 to 7+1 + 

 11 to 14 on first arch; anal rays iii,8 .... (genus Chorististium Gill)^^ 

 11a. Coloration plain pale, no stripes or dark pigment marks on sides or on 

 fins; pectoral rays ii, 14 ;predorsal scales 12 to occiput; dorsal rays vi-i-i,i,ll 



(Christmas Island and Bikini Atoll) C. pallidum Fowler '^ 



lib. Coloration of alternating dark and pale streaks or dark wavy lines on 



sides. 



12a. Sides of body with brown pigment specks, a few arranged in irregular 



lines on midsides; an oblique short dark brown streak on pectoral 



base; predorsal scales 13 to occiput C. brocki (Schultz)'* 



6 Crystes lunulattis Guichenot, Notes sur I'lle de la Reunion. Faunae Ichthyologique, p. c-4, 1863 (Reunion 

 Island) . 

 Pikea lunulata Steindachner, Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 69, p. 2, 1874; Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



vol. 47, pi. 6, fig. 2, 1883. 

 Olaucosoma semilunifeTa Steindachner, in Bliss, Trans. Roy. Soe. Mauritius, new ser. vol. 13, p. 47, 1883 

 (Mauritius). 

 ' Liopropoma longilepis Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 24, p. 45, 1899 (lat. 7°33' N.; long. 78°34'20" 



W.). 

 8 Pikea maculata Doderlein and Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 47, p. 234, pi. 6, figs. 1, 



la, lb, 1883 (Japan), 

 s Liopropoma Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 52, 1861 (type species, Perca aberrans Poey). 

 BathyanthiuS Ounther, Rep. Voyage Challenger, Zool., vol. 1, No. 6, p. 6, 1880 (type species Bathyanthias 

 roseus Giinther). 



10 Perca aberrans Poey, Memorias, vol. 2, p. 125, pi. 12, fig. 2, 1860 (Cuba). 



11 Bathyanthias roseus Gunthcr, Rep. Voyage Challenger, Zool., vol. 1, No. 6, p. 6, pi. 1, flg. b, 1880 (Pernam- 



buco, Brazil). 



12 Chorististium Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 14, p. 15, 1862 (type species, Perca rubre 



Poey; misspelled Chorististum in heading). 

 Ypsigramma Schultz, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 202, vol. 1, p. 372, 1953 (type species, Ypsigramma lineata 



Schultz). 

 » Chorististium pallidum Fowler, Monogr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 2, p. 199, fig. 20, 1938 (Christmas 



Island). 

 14 Ypsigramma brocki Schultz, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 202, vol. 1, p. 379, fig. 60, 1953 (Marshall and Gilbert 



Islands). 



