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lilaceous silvery, former traversed by basal and two median pale 

 blue bands. Paired fins colorless. Length, to 267 mm. (Ogilby.) 

 Queensland. 



SYNAGRIS SMITHH (Steindachner) 



Dentex (Heterognathodon) smithii Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 math.-nat. Kl., vol. 57, pt. 1, p. 978, pi. 3, fig. 1, 1868 (type locality: Cape 

 of Good Hope). 



Depth 3; head 3%, width 2. Snout 2% in head from snout tip; eye 

 S%, 1)^ in snout, greater than interorbital, slightly impinging on upper 

 profile; mandible slightly protrudes; maxillary reaches eye, expansion 

 3)i in eye, length 3)^ in head from snout tip; 6 front upper canines, 

 4 or 5 below (subequal in figure); interorbital slightly concave; pre- 

 opercle and suborbital edges entire; preorbital depth V/z in eye. 



Scales 50 in lateral line; 4 above, 13 below, predorsal extend forward 

 at least to eyes, 4 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge and flange naked; 

 ventral axillary scale 2% in fin; caudal largely covered with fine scales. 



D. X, 9, I, sixth spine V/2 in total head length, edges of membranes 

 of spinous fin well notched, first ray 2%; A. Ill, 7, i, third spine 2%, 

 first ray 2%; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 1%; ventral 

 1;^; caudal 3% in rest of body, fin lunately emarginate. 



Rose red above, below silvery. Broad orange band above middle, 

 along side of body, fading out at caudal peduncle. Second narrow 

 yellowish band begins behind head and extends along dorsal base till 

 opposite end of fin. Number of V-shaped violet streaks, angle 

 formed in scales of lateral line, about 30 indicated on figure, which 

 also shows dark postocular band and blotch on opercle, besides short 

 oblique dark bar before pectoral base. Length not given, figure 167 

 mm long. (Steindachner.) 



South Africa. This species is not included in Barnard's "Marine 

 Fishes of South Africa." 



SYNAGRIS OVENn (Bleeker) 



Dititex ovenii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 7, p. 246, 1854 (type 

 locality: Macassar, Celebes); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, p. 86, pi. 

 (50)328, fig. 5, 1876-1877 (Celebes). 



Synagris ovenii GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 375, 1859 (copied). 



Nemipterus ovenii Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 21, 1906 

 (1907) (Cavite). — Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 82, 

 1906 (1907) (Bulan).— Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 

 4, No. 4, p. 185, 1909 (Takao, Formosa). 



'^Nemipterus oveniides Popta, Zool. Meded. Leiden, vol. 6, p. 204, 1921 (ty^pe local- 

 ity: Sunda Islands). 



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

 from snout tip; eye 3K to 3%, 1% to 1% in snout, greater than interor- 

 bital; maxillary not quite reaching front eye edge, expansion 2% to 3 in 

 eye, length 2% to 3 in head; teeth in villiform band of 5 or 6 irregular 

 rows and outer slightly enlarged row, also 5 or 6 upper fi-ont outer 

 canines; front band of vilHform lower teeth like upper only not 



