52 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



length 2% in head from snout tip; teeth all conic, 4 canines in front 

 of each jaw, inner band of fine villiform teeth behind canines; inter- 

 orbital low. 



Scales 48 (52 tubular scales on figure); 5 above, 12 below, predorsal 

 forward not quite opposite hind preopercle edge; no postocular scale 

 on figure. 



D. X, 9, third spine 2% in total head length, longer than last spine, 

 which also longer than penultimate spine, last spine 4% in total head, 

 third ray 3%; A. Ill, 8, third spine 4%, last ray 3}i; caudal 1%; emar- 

 ginate, lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 3%; pectoral 

 IK; ventral 1%. 



Yellowish, back greenish gray, becomes whitish on belly. Head 

 brown, with darker blotches. Inside mouth red, lips yellow. Hind 

 border of gill opening and pectoral base reddish yellow. Inner base 

 of pectoral deep red. Fins yellow, spinous dorsal brownish. Iris 

 dusted purplish. Length, 450 mm. (Klunzinger.) 



Red Sea. 



LETHRINUS CARINATUS Weber 



Lethrinus carinatvs Weber, Siboga Exped., vol. 57, Fische, p. 289, pi. 2, fig. 1, 

 text fig. 68, 1913 (type locality: Seget, Galewo Straits, New Guinea; Tual, 

 Niedrig Kei). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 214, 1928 (copied). 



Depth 2y2 to 2%; head 2% to 2%, width 2% to 2%. Snout 1% in head; 

 eye 4 to 4%, 2% to 2}^ in snout, 1 in interorbital ; maxillary reaches to 

 or slightly beyond front nostril, length 2% to 2% in head; upper lip 

 moderate, coriaceous; broad villiform bands of teeth in front of each 

 jaw, with outer enlarged series largely conic, as 4 rather low canines 

 in front above and below, each side posteriorly, last 3 molarlike, 

 penultimate with median longitudinal depression or groove; inter- 

 orbital 4 to 4c%, convex; naked region of head finely striate or skin 

 rugose. Gill rakers 5 + 5, short, low tubercles, about % of gill filaments 



Scales 45 or 46 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 

 6 above, 14 or 15 below, 9 predorsal; caudal and pectoral bases finely 

 scaled. Scales with 17 to 22 basal radiating striae, mth 2 or 3 incom- 

 plete auxiliaries; 102 to 130 apical denticles with 10 to 12 transverse 

 series of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 9 I, fourth spine 3 to 3^ in head, fourth ray 2% to 3; A. Ill, 

 8, 1, third spine Z% to 3%, second ray 2% to 3%; caudal 1)^ to Ij^, deeply 

 emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3^; pectoral 1% to 

 1%; ventral IK to 1%. 



Brown, body nearly uniform. Head drab-brown, darker than body 

 color, except pale opercles, which like body. Each row of scales above 

 lateral line with dark streak. Below lateral line each row of scales 

 with traces of similar parallel lines, most distinct on chest, above anal 

 and about gill opening. Fins brownish, with indistinct blotches of 

 darker on dorsals and as several obscure transverse bands on caudal. 



