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scale venulose, like upper row of occipital scales and forward around 

 eye and interorbital. Scales with 6 to 9 basal radiating striae; 123 to 

 135 apical denticles, minute short points, with 2 to 16 transverse 

 series of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 9, 1, fourth spine 2% to 3)io in head, seventh ray 1%, last ray 2; 

 A. Ill, 7, I, third spine 2% to 3, first ray 2%; lower caudal lobe 1%, 

 fin deeply forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 3M; pectoral 1 to 

 1}^; ventral iXo to 1%. 



Back light brown with pink tinge, sides and below still paler with 

 silvery white sheen, lower or under edge of body sulphur-yellow. Iris 

 light yellowish. Inside gill opening reddish. Dorsals edged grayish, 

 with ill-defined submarginal dusky line whole length. Caudal fila- 

 ment of upper lobe 2% in rest of body, sulphur-yellow. Ventral axil 

 sulphur-yellow, with second ray same color. 



Japan. The profile of the head and body suggest Nemipterus luteus 

 Jordan and Scale as figured in 1907. 



6204, 13739. Batangas market. June 6, 1908. Length, 242 to 245 mm. Rosy 

 red on top of head, back, and upper side. Lower parts of body paler, breast 

 and belly white mesially. Sulphur-yellow wash on throat and edges of inter- 

 opercles, continued backward as broad stripe passing above ventrals along 

 anal base and ending at caudal base. Pale silvery yellow stripe from above 

 pectoral base out on caudal peduncle. Less distinct sulphur-yellow stripe 

 begins on shoulder, passes backward under lateral line and crosses same on 

 caudal peduncle to end at caudal base. Yellow bar across postorbital connects 

 behind snout. Premaxillaries yellowish. Lower border of opercle slightly 

 yellow. Dorsal hj'aline rosy, edges of membranes bright sulphury with pale 

 purple submarginal bar. Caudal bright rosy, upper lobe with produced rays 

 tipped cadmium. Pectoral pink. Ventral yellowish and rosy. 



U.S.N. M. No. 68232. Kagoshima, Japan. Albatross collection. Length, 270 

 mm. Type. 



U.S.N.M. No. 75145. Kagoshima, Japan. Albatross collection. Length, 246 

 mm. Paratype. 



SYNAGRIS JAPONICUS (Bloch) 



Sparus japonicus Bloch, Naturg. Ausliind. Fische, pt. 5, p. 110, pi. 277. fig. 1, 

 1791 (no locality) . — Forster, Fauna Indica, p. 15, 1795. — Lac^pI:de, Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, pp. 39, 127, 1802 (Japan). 



Synagris japonicus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 378, 1859 (copied 

 Bleeker). — Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., 

 vol. 60, pt. 1, p. 560, 1870 (Singapore). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 92, 

 pi. 24, fig. 2, 1875 (type).— Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., p. 36, 1884.— 

 Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 527, 1889. — Elera, Cat. Fauna 

 Filip., vol. 1, p. 478, 1895 (Luzon; Manila). — Pearson, Ceylon Administr. 

 Rep., 1915-1918, pp. F9, Fll, F12, F14, F15.— Borodin, Bull. Vanderbilt 

 Marine Mus., vol. 1, art. 2, p. 53, 1930 (Manila Bay). 



Synagris japonica Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, p. 387, 1876 (Manila). 



Synagris gaponicus K.^roli, Term^sz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 164, 1881 

 (Yokohama, Kobe, Singapore). (Error.) 



Dentex japonicus Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 173, 1865 

 (Siam); Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amtersdam, ser. 2, vol. 4, p. 250,1870 

 (China); Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 117, 1873 (China).— Fowler, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 283 (Orion; Philippines); Journ. 



