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1911 (Suva, Fiji).— Fowler, Copeia, No. 57, p. 64, 1918 (Philippines); 

 Bishop Mus. Bull. 22, p. 10, 1925 (Gaam). 



Lethrinus moensi Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 328, 1873 

 (Batjan, Obi Major, Timor). — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 500, 



1912 (Okinawa). — Beaufort, Bijd. Dierk., Amsterdam, vol. 19, p. 123, 1913 

 (Samana, Sula Islands). — Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. Sci., 

 vol. 33, No. 4, p. 400, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1927 (Legaspi, Calapan, Bulalacao Bay, 

 Tablas, Romblon, Dumaguete, Balabac, Zamboanga). 



Lethrinus gemvittatus (not Valenciennes) Playfair, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1867, p. 853. 

 Lethrinus variegatus (not Valenciennes) Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. 



Fisher., vol. 26, p. 86, 1906 (1907) (San Fabian). 

 Lethrinus miniatus (not Schneider) Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 216, 



1928 (Tahiti and Tempe specimens). 



Depth 2% to 3; head 2% to 2%, width 2% to 2%. Snout 2 to 2% in 

 head; eye 3 to 4, 1 to 1% in snout, greater than interorbital in young 

 to subequal with age; maxillary reaches opposite front nostril, length 

 2% to 3% in head; band of villiform teeth in each jaw and outer row 

 of larger conic teeth, 4 slight canines anteriorly in each jaw and 4 to 6 

 enlarged or semimolar teeth each side posteriorly in each jaw; inter- 

 orbital 3% to 4, slightly convex. Gill rakers 5 + 5, low tubercles. 



Scales 42 or 43 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter; 6 above, 15 below, 8 predorsal. Scales with 14 to 16 basal 

 radiating striae; 65 to 72 apical denticles, with 7 or 8 transverse rows 

 of basal segments; circuli fine. 



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

 Ill, 8, I, third spine 2% to 3K, second ray 2K to 3; caudal 1% to 1)2, 

 deeply emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 3%; pectoral 

 l)Uo 1%; ventral IK to 1%. 



Brown, on back and upper surfaces each scale with slightly darker 

 border. Head below, belly, and abdomen whitish. About seven or 

 eight vertical diffuse slightly dark bands on back and sides, mostly as 

 intensified dark edges to scales. Iris gray-brown. Dorsals and cau- 

 dal grayish, other fins paler. Anal and ventrals more or less whitish. 



Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, China, Riu Kiu, Queensland, 

 Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia. Known b}^ its much more deeply 

 emarginate or lunate caudal than in Lethrinus harak, also upper pro- 

 file of snout slightly convex. The dark blotch at the end of the de- 

 pressed pectoral is always with dark extending upwards and down- 

 wards, exactly as shown by Bleeker's figure. In small examples the 

 caudal is less noticeably lunate. 



Lethrinus reticulatus Valenciennes is based on an example but 

 100 mm long. Head reddish, with two or three brown bands above 

 the eye. Membranous border of opercle yellow. Body lighter than 

 head, with irregular blackish spots. Rays of soft vertical fins finely 

 marked with blackish streaks. 



