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like; interorbital 3 to 4, broadly and slightly convex; naked region of 

 head finely rugose or striate. Gill rakers 4 or 5 + 5, short low 

 tubercles, about half of gill filaments. 



Scales 44 to 46 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 

 6 above, 14 to 16 below, 9 predorsal; caudal and pectoral bases finely 

 scaled. Scales with 16 basal radiating striae; 100 apical denticles, 

 with 4 to 6 transverse series of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



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

 Ill, 8, I, third spine 3)^ to 3%, first ray 2% to 3%; caudal 1}^ to 1%, 

 deeply emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 2%; pectoral 

 1 to 1)^; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Brown generally. Head drab or slightly darker than body color. 

 Along middle of side an indistinct pale longitudinal axial band from 

 head to caudal peduncle; two similar shorter parallel bands above and 

 another below. Iris golden brown. Fins pale brown. Iris brownish 

 yellow. 



Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines. My examples seem to agree with 

 Bleeker's figure largely in the pale longitudinal bands, though at 

 present quite indistinct. 



Bleeker does not accept Lethrinus erythrurus Valenciennes as a 

 synonym as placed by Day, as he found the young of the present 

 species marked like the adults and without the black lateral blotch or 

 fine black longitudinal streaks. 



9023. Langao Point, Luzon. June 24, 1909. Length, 242 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 32703. Indian Archipelago. Royal Museum of Leiden. Length, 



234 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 5817. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 310 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 27630. Padang, Sumatra. Harrison and Hiller. Length, 276 mm. 



When fresh in arrack brown, darker above. Side with about seven rather 



broad dull longitudinal orange-yellow bands. Inside gill opening orange-red. 



Peritoneum silvery. 



LETHRINUS STRIATUS Steindachner 



Lethrinus striatus Steindachnek, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 16, p. 479, pi. 5, 

 fig. 3, 1866 (type locality: Zanzibar). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 145, 

 1866 (Zanzibar). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 205, pi. 24, 

 fig. 2, 1891.— Regan, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, No. 2, p. 330, 

 1905 (Persian Gulf).— Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 39, p. 229, 

 1914 (Nossi B6 and Fort Dauphin, Madagascar). 



Depth 2%; head 3, upper profile steepl}^ inclined. Snout 1)5 in 

 head; eye 3}^, 1% in snout, 1% in suborbital depth to expansion of 

 maxillary; maxillary reaches % in snout, length 2% in head; 4 canines 

 in front of each jaw, with row of conic laterals and molars of upper 

 jaw little longer than lower; band of villiform teeth behind canines; 

 interorbital subequal with eye, low. 



Scales 45 in lateral line; 5 above, 16 below, predorsal extend forward 

 opposite hind opercle edge; small patch of postocular scales. 



