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bands on body. Fins golden or yellowish pink, except pectoral rays 

 all marked with dark spots. Length, 115 mm. (Bleeker.) 



East Indies, Philippines, Micronesia, Herre and Montalban report 

 it to be 131 mm in length. 



LETHRINUS HYPSELOPTERUS Bleeker 



Lethrinus hj/pselopterus Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 326, 

 1873 (type locality: Benculen, Sumatra; Singapore, Java, Obi Major, Solor, 

 Waigiu) ; Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 8, p. 114, pi. (52) 330, fig. 3, 1876- 

 1877 (Sumatra, Singapore, Java, Obi Major, Solor, Waigiu). — Weber, 

 Semon's Zool. Forsch. Reis. Austral., vol. 5, p. 265, 1895 (Ambon). — Ever- 

 MANN and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 86, 1906 (1907) (Philip- 

 pines). — Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 33, No. 4, p. 

 419, pi. 4, fig. 1, 1927 (Zamboanga and Davao; Tambagaan and Bungau 

 Island). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 282 (Santa 

 Maria, Calapan); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 216, 1928 (compiled). 



Depth 2K to 2K; head 2% to 2%, width 2^ to 2%. Snout 1% to 2% 

 in head; eye 3 to 4^, 1^ to 2% in snout, greater to 1}^ in interorbital 

 with age; maxillary reaches opposite front nostril or about % in snout, 

 2% to 2% in head; lips broad, coriaceous; broad bands of villiform 

 teeth in jaws, with outer row in each enlarged and usually conic, as 

 4 canines in front of each and last 3 to 5 each side as broad molars; 

 interorbital 3% to 4%, broadly convex; cheek and most naked region 

 of head with fine weak striae, on cheek as vertical parallel lines, other- 

 wise as finely venulose. Gill rakers 2 to 5 + 5 or 6, short stout tuber- 

 cles, little less than gill filaments. 



Scales 42 to 46 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 to 5 more on 

 latter; 5 to 7 above, 14 or 15 below, 7 to 9 predorsal; caudal and pec- 

 toral bases finely scaled. Scales with 12 to 18 basal radiating striae, 

 with 1 to 4 medial auxiliaries; 87 to 155 apical denticles, with 4 to 8 

 transverse series of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 9, I, fourth spine 2}^ to 3 in head, fourth ray 2% to 2%; A, 

 III, 8, I, third spine 2% to 3, third ray 2^ to 2%; caudal 1% to 1}^, 

 emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3; pectoral 1 to 1%; 

 ventral l}Uo 1%. 



Largely pale brownish, httle paler below or on abdomen. Head 

 little darker brown than body. Vertical fins rather dark, especially 

 caudal, which are dusky basally. Paired fins dull brown. Iris dark 

 brown. 



East Indies, Philippines. Differs from Lethrinus haematopterus 

 Schlegel in that the back is not so elevated anteriorly and the soft 

 dorsal and anal also not so elevated. Especially is the anal higher 

 than long, while in L. haematopterus it is noticeably longer than high. 



Bleeker had five specimens, 220 to 260 mm. My specimens agree 

 with his figure, though several features are conspicuous in alcohoHc 

 materials which he does not show. Thus the outer or anterior large 

 lateral nuchal scales are quite dark brown and much contrasted. Also 



