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lateral line for C. major, width of preorbital 3% in head, and 9 or 10 

 rows of scales above lateral line for C. auratus, my materials are so 

 variable they are indistinguishable structurally. I am therefore 

 obliged to leave the species simply as provisional geographic expres- 

 sions, C. major Indo-Chinese-Japanese and C. auratus Australian. 



CHRYSOPHRYS MAJOR Schlejtel 



Chrysophrys major Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 2-4, p. 71, pi. 35, 

 1843 (type locality: All bays of Japan). 



Pagrus major GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 478, 1859 (China; 

 Japan). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, p. 387, 1876 (Yokohama). — 

 GtJNTHER, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, p. 64, 1880 (Inoshima). — Ntstrom, 

 Bihang kon. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handlingar, vol. 13, No. 4, p. 14, 1887 

 (Nagasaki). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 483, 1895 (Luzon, Manila, 

 Malabon). — Ishikawa and Matsuura, Prelim. Cat. Fishes Mus. Tokyo, 

 p. 53, 1897.— Kishinouye, Fisher. Bur. Tokyo, vol. 10, No. 3, p. 32, pis. 4, 

 6, 7, fig. 1, 1901 (South Hokkaido to Formosa, Korea, China). — Jordan and 

 Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, pts. 2-3, p. 79, 1901 (Yokohama and 

 Nagasaki). — Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, p. 350, 

 1902 (Formosa). — Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, 

 No. 4, p. 189, 1909 (Takao). — Franz, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.- 

 phys. Kl., vol. 4, suppl. vol. 1, p. 47, 1910 (Dzushi). — Izuka and Matsuura, 

 Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus., Vertebr., p. 148, 1920 (Tokyo market).— 

 Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, No. 1, p. 114, 1928 (Bom- 

 bay). 



Pagrus (Chrysophrys) major Steindachner and Doderlein, Denkschr. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 48, pt. 1, p. 19, 1884 (Tokio). 



Sparus major Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 18, p. 8, 1879 

 (Japan) . 



Pagrosomus major Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, p. 576, 

 1912 (Wakanoura, Aomori, Tokyo, Nagasaki). — Jordan and Metz, Mem. 

 Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 34, 1913 (Port Arthur, Fusan, Chemulpo). — 

 Jordan and Thompson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 4, p. 256, 1914 

 (Misaki, Osaka, Yokohama, Sendai). — Jordan and Htjbbs, Mem. Carnegie 

 Mus., vol. 10, No. 2, p. 241, 1925 (Kobe, Mikawa Bay, Misaki, Miyazu). — 

 OsHiMA, Jap. Journ. Zool., Trans. Abstracts, vol. 1, No. 5, p. 146, 1927 

 (Keeling).— Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), 

 p. 592 (Nagasaki). — Schmidt and Lindberg, Bull. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., 

 1930, p. 1140 (Tsuruga).— Schmidt, Bull. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., 1931, p. 110 

 (Obana); Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 2, p. 69, 1931 

 (Kagoshima; Fusan). — Anonymous, Illustrat. Jap. Aquat. Plants Animal., 

 vol. 1, pi. 36, fig. 1, 1931.— Fowler, Hong Kong Nat., vol. 2, No. 4, p. 302, 

 1931 (Hong Kong). 



Sparus auratus (not Linnaeus, 1758) Houttuyn, Verh. Holland. Maatsch. Wet. 

 Haarlem, vol. 20, pt. 2, p. 318, 1782 (Japan). 



Pagrosomus auratus Fowler, Copeia, No. 112, p. 83, 1922 (Hawaii); Mem. 

 Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 218, 1928 (Hawaii); Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1929 (1930), p. 596 (Shanghai), p. 609 (Hong Kong), p. 644 (Hawaiian 

 specimen); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 11, No. 5, p. 335, 1931 (note). — Schmidt, 

 Bull. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., 1931, p. Ill (Nagasaki). 



Chrysophrys unicolor (part) Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., p. 229, 1824 

 (China Sea). 



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