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villiform teeth in jaws, at least in front, outer row little enlarged; 

 interorbital low; preopercle edge entire; suborbital depth 1% in eye. 



Scales 50 in lateral line; 3 above, 12 below, predorsal extend forward 

 at least % in eye; 3 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge, flange naked. 



D. X, 9 or 10, fourth spine 2% in head, first ray 2%; A. Ill, 7 or 8, 

 third spine S%, first ray 2%; caudal 1, deeply forked, lobes pointed; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 3K; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Above rosy, below silvery rosy. Iris red or yellow. Fins rosy. 

 Dorsal rays with longitudinal submarginal yellow band. Length, 

 160 mm. (Bleeker.) 



East Indies, Queensland. 



SYNAGRIS FLAVOLINEA Fowler 



Synagris flavolinea Fowler, Hong Kong Nat., vol. 2, No. 4, p. 299, text fig. 8, 1931 

 (type locality: Saukiwan, Hong Kong). 



Depth 2% to 3; head Z% to 3}^, width 2. Snout 3% to S'A in head; 

 eye 3 to 3%, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches % 

 to K in eye, expansion 2}^ to 3 in eye, length 2% to 3 in head; teeth in 

 vilhform bands in jaws, narrowing posteriorly; no teeth on palate or 

 tongue; interorbital 4)^ to 4}^ in head, slightly concave, superciliary 

 ridges slightly raised; hind preopercle edge minutely denticulate, 

 lower entire. Gill rakers 6 + 8 or 9, robust points, % of gill filaments, 

 which half of orbit. 



Scales 44 in lateral line to caudal base; 3 above, 8 or 9 below, 7 or 8 

 forward to occiput though small scales extend still forward nearly 

 to middle of eye; 3 rows on cheek. Caudal finely scaled basally. 

 Scales with 6 or 7 basal radiating striae ; 65 to 82 short apical denticles, 

 in 1 or 2 alternate series; circuli very fine. 



Light brown, nearly pale to whitish with faint rosy shades. Kosy 

 bar on hind lower part of opercle. Inside gill opening vermihon. 

 Bases of most of fins show slight yellowish or sulphury tints, especially 

 ventral axillary scale. Iris whitish. Fins all colorless. Both dorsals 

 with median longitudinal sulphur-yellow band. 



Hong Kong. Known by its apparently largely unicolored body, 

 evidently rosy in life, and the dorsal fins with a median longitudinal 

 band of sulphur-yellow. 



A.N.S.P. No. 53454. Saukiwan, Hong Kong. November 10, 1929. Dr. G. A. 



C. Herklots. Length, 107 mm. Type. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 53455. Saukiwan. November 10, 1929. Dr. G. A. C. Herklots. 

 Paratype. 



SYNAGRIS ZYSRON (Bleeker) 



Dentex zysron Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 12, p. 219, 1856-1857 

 (type locality: Nias); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, p. 94, pi. (49) 327, 

 fig. 5, 1876-1877 (Sumbawa). 



Synagris zysron Gunthek, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., vol. 1, p. 375, 1859 (copied). 



