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5927. Zainboanga. May 25, 1908. Length, 233 mm. Silvery gray, becoming 

 soiled white below. Side with five orange longitudinal bands, one above lateral 

 line, next two begin below but end in lateral line. Side of head with yellowish 

 wash; scarlet on maxillary region, inside mouth, opercular flap and stripe be- 

 hind preopercle; dark on upper eye; gill opening edged with scarlet and brassy; 

 iris silvery. Dorsals clear olive anteriorly, become vermilion posteriorly, rays 

 more or less orange and tips of spinous membranes vermilion. Anal pale, 

 membranes and soft rays with orange shades. Caudal dusky vermilion. Pec- 

 toral hyaline-orange, axil dusky, some scarlet at base of first ray. Ventral pale. 



U.S.N. M. No. 75503. Nagasaki, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 233 to 

 247 mm. Two examples. 



LETHRINUS CHOERORHYNCHUS (Schneider) 



Sparus choerorynchas Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 278, 1801 (type locality: 



Japan) . 

 Lethrinus chaerorhynchus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 308, 1830 



(on Schneider). 

 Lethrinus choerorhynchus Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 80, 



1901 ("Japan"). — Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 



p. 562, 1912 (copied Bleeker). — Iztjka and Matsuura, Cat. Zool. Spec. 



Tokyo Mus., Vertebr., p. 149, 1920 (Tokyo market). — Schmidt, Trans. 



Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 1, p. 50, pi. 2, fig. 2, 1930 (Yaeyama 



and Kominato, Riu Kiu) ; vol. 2, p. 69, 1931 (Kagoshima). — Anonymous, 



lUustrat. Jap. Aquat. Plant. Animal., vol. 1, pi. 35, fig. 7, 1931. 

 Lethrinus haematopterus (not Schlegel) GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 



p. 464, 1859 (Sea of Japan) . 

 Lethrinus guntheri Bleeker, Arch. Neerland. Sci. Nat. Harlem, vol. 8, p. 153, 



p. 2, 1873 [type locality: Kiusiu (Nagasaki)]. — Jordan and Snyder, Annot. 



Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 80, 1901 (Nagasaki). 

 Lethrinus richardsoni (not GDnther) Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., vol. 25, p. 350, 1902 (Formosa); Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, No. 4, 



p. 189, 1909 (Formosa). 



Depth 2%; head 2%. Snout 2^ in head; eye 3%, 1% in snout; max- 

 illary reaches % to eye, length 3 in head; 4 front canines in each jaw, 

 and outer series conic, rounded molars posteriorly; interorbital low. 



Scales 48 in lateral line; 6 above, 17 below. 



D. X, 9, I, fourth spine 2% in head, first ray 3; A. Ill, 9, i, second 

 spine S}i, first ray 3% or 1^ in fin base; caudal l}i in head, little 

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



Above oUvaceous, below golden. Iris yellowish or rosy. Fins 

 pink or yellowish. Length, 120 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Formosa, Riu Kiu, Japan. 



LETHRINUS MAHSENOIDES Valenciennes 



Lethrinus mahsenoides (Ehrenberg) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 

 p. 286, 1830 [type locality: Seas of India; no locality (Red Sea)]. — Peters, 

 Arch. Naturg., 1855, p. 243 (Mozambique). — GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. 1, p. 464, 1859 (Philippines, Amboyna). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. 

 Godeffroy, No. 3, p. 7, 1866 (Viti Levu). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. 

 Wien, vol. 20, p. 755, 1870 (type, Lethrinus abbrevialus) ; Fische Roth. Meer., 

 p. 39, pi. 6, fig. 2, 1884 (Red Sea).— Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 

 pi. 25, figs. 3-3a, 1891 (type). — Steindachner, Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. 

 Ges., vol. 25, p. 418, 1900 (Batjan, Ternate) ; Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



