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7083. Length, 310 mm. Silvery below, overshadowed with olivaceous above. 



Fins dusky, except pectoral, which rather orange with dusky axillary blotch. 

 7324, 12840, 16883. Sablayan, Mindoro. December 12, 1908. Length, 177 to 



250 mm. 

 5593. San Miguel Harbor, Ticao Island. April 21, 1908. Length, 226 mm. 

 9782. Siasi market. February 17, 1908. Length, 153 mm. 

 5130. Surigao, Mindanao. May 8, 1908. Length, 166 mm. 

 7357. Taro Island. December 15, 1908. Length, 218 mm. 

 6463. Tilig, Lubang Island. July 14, 1908. Length, 230 mm. 

 6461, 6484, 10883. Tilig. July 16, 1908. Length, 183 to 410 mm. 

 13163. Tumindao Island. February 26, 1908. Length, 126 mm. 

 9155. Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 23, 1908. Length, 185 mm. 

 A884. Limbe Strait, north of Celebes, Dutch East Indies. November 19, 1909. 



Length, 283 mm. A silvery-gray spot with scarlet under border of upper iris. 

 A1471. Kait Point, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length, 240 mm, 

 8358, 8359. Apra Bay, Guam. November 19 to 21, 1907. Length, 123 to 



138 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 51081. Hawaii. Bureau of Fisheries (05174). Length, 239 mm. 

 U.S.N. M. No. 52473. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 153 to 173 



mm. Two examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 52662. Hawaii. Bureau of Fisheries (05173). Length, 240 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 66089. Honolulu. Albatross collection (2772). Length, 223 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 66955. Arhno Atoll, Marshall Islands. Albatross collection (A181). 



Length, 248 mm. 

 A N.S.P. No. 27984. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries (05172). Length, 



168 mm. 



Genus CHRYSOPHRYS Qwoy and Gaimard 



Chrysophrys (Cxjvier) Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, ZooL, p. 299, 1824. 



(Type, Chrysophrys unicolor Quoy and Gaimard, monotypic.) 

 Pagrosomus Gill, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 6, p. 97, 1893. (Type, Labrus 



auratus Schneider.) 

 Sparosomus Gill, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 6, pp. 116, 123, 1893. (Type, 



Chrysophrys unicolor Quoy and Gaimard.) (Lapsus for Pagrosomtts. Not 



Sparisoma Swainson, 1839, or Sparosoma Saxjvage, 1883.) 



Body oblong, rather deep, compressed. Head large. Mouth 

 rather small, terminal, low. Front teeth in jaws cardiform, outer 

 series usually Uttle enlarged, caninelike, not compressed; teeth 

 behind canines slender and acute; both jaws with two or three rows 

 of rounded molars, sometimes variably mixed with slender teeth; no 

 teeth on palate. Hind nostril oblong, much larger than front nostril, 

 not slitlike. Preopercle entire. Opercle not armed. Gill rakers 

 short. Branchiostegals 6. Air bladder simple. Intestine short. 

 Pyloric coeca few. Preopercle with or without few scales. Dorsal 

 spines 12, depressible in groove, without antrorse anterior spine. 

 Anal spines moderate, second not greatly developed. Caudal forked. 



Carnivorous fishes of the shores of Asia and Australia, close to 

 the Atlantic Pagrus which differs chiefly in its deeper body. Although 

 Jordan and Thompson have attempted to separate the two accepted 

 species of this genus on their so-called structm-al characters, such as 

 the width of the preorbital 4% in head and 8 rows of scales above the 



