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D. X, 9, I, fourth spine 2% in head, fifth ray 1?^; A. Ill, 8, third 

 spine 2%, first ray 2; caudal iKo, emarginate ; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2%; pectoral iKo) ventral 1%. 



Black-brown band above middle of forehead and second from front 

 eye edge over middle of snout length. Back clear gold-brown. Tliree 

 blue-violet bands parallel and above lateral line, uppermost to end 

 of soft dorsal and others to caudal base. Below lateral line each 

 scale row with longitudinal brown line. Length not given; drawing 

 170 mm. (Steindachner.) 



Zanzibar, Madagascar, Persian Gulf. Said to differ from Lethrinus 

 croceopterus Valenciennes by the small eye and more elevated body. 

 It is suggestive of Lethrinus haematopterus except the back anteriorly 

 is not so elevated. The figure by Sauvage seems to agree except the 

 soft anal is lower and the predorsal scales extend forward opposite 

 hind eye edge. This specimen was 270 mm long. 



LETHRINUS CROCEOPTERUS Valenciennes 



Lethrinus croceopterus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 302, 1830 (type 

 locality: Seychelles). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 204, 

 pi. 24, figs, i-la, 1891 (type). 



Depth 2%; head 3%, upper profile very shallowly convex. Snout 

 2Ko in head; eye 3K, 1% in snout, slightly impinging on upper profile, 

 greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches % to eye, length 3 in head; 

 canines very strong (apparently 4 intended in front of each jaw on 

 figure) ; hind teeth elliptical ; interorbital very low. 



Scales 46 in lateral Hne (43 on figure); 5 above, 14 below; predorsal 

 scales extend forward not quite to eye (postocular scales above pre- 

 opercle not clearly shown on figure). 



D. X, 9 (X, 10 on figure), fourth spine 2% in head, seventh ray 

 2Ko; A. Ill, 8, second spine 3, first ray 2%; caudal iKo, very slightly 

 emarginate behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral iKoj 

 ventral 1%. 



Body ornamented by spots of golden forming well-marked longi- 

 tudinal series. As shown on figure apparently as slightly dark spot 

 to each scale. (Sauvage.) 



Seychelles. Valenciennes gives his type, secured by Dussumier, as 

 125 mm. He says the body is greenish, membranous border of 

 opercle orange. Dorsal and anal gray. Caudal deep green. Paired 

 fins golden. No spots on cheek. 



LETHRINUS XANTHOCHILUS Klunzinger 



Lethrinus xanthochilus Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 753, 

 1870 (type locality: Red Sea); Fische Roth. Meer., p. 39, pi. 6, fig. 3, 1884 

 (type) . 



Depth 3%; head 3K, upper profile inclined, Uttle arched over eye. 

 Snout 1% in head from snout tip; eye 6K, 4 in snout, 3 in suborbital 

 depth to maxillary expansion; maxillary reaches halfway to eye, 



