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brown band transversely across lower cheek and second one also 

 vertically on preopercle. Iris pale yellowish or whitish. Fins all 

 pale with spines and rays of dorsals and anals each spotted slightly 

 with darker and dark blotches along bases reflected on fins basally. 

 Caudal with four transverse dark bands. Pectoral with dark inferior 

 basal blotch. Four dark bands transversely on ventrals. 



Zanzibar, Portuguese East Africa, Philippines, China. This species, 

 surely quite distinct from Lethrinus miniatus, with which it is con- 

 fused by Barnard, has an entirely different coloration on the head. 

 The figure by Valenciennes accurately portrays the species, which 

 appears to have been unknown to Bleeker and not definitely reported 

 from the East Indies. The Albatross collections contain a single 

 small specunen, described above, which establishes the species in the 

 Philippine fauna. 



One example. Pandanon Island. March 24, 1909. Length, 98 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 53116. Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa. H. W. Bell Marley. 

 Length, 95 mm. 



LETHRINUS PUNCTULATUS Macleay 



Lethrinus punctulatus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 2, 

 p. 351, pi. 8, fig. 2, 1878 (type locality: Port Darwin). 



Depth 2%; head 2%, upper profile straight. Snout 2% in head; eye 

 4, 1% in snout; maxillary reaches % to eye, length 3 in head; teeth 

 sharply conic, canines small; interorbital low. 



Scales 45 in lateral line. 



D. X, 9, fourth, fifth, and sixth spines longest (figure shows second 

 equally long); A. Ill, 8, third spine longest; caudal slightly emargi- 

 nate; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 in head; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



General color dark with black patch between lateral line and pec- 

 toral fin and series of vertical black blotches, formed of clusters of 

 small spots, along entire body length. Length, 152 mm. (Macleay.) 



North Australia. 



LETHRINUS HAEMATOPTERUS Schlegel 



Lethrinus haematofterus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 5-6, pi. 38, 

 1844. — Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 144, pi. 64, figs. 1-3, 

 1844 (China seas, Japan, Canton, Hong Kong); Ichth. China Japan, p. 242, 

 1846 (Canton; Hong Kong). — Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), 

 vol. 26, p. 91, 1857 (Nagasaki). — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 80, 1865 

 (Manila). — Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 323, 1873 

 (Amboina, Luzon, Kiusiu); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, p. 112, pi. 

 (53)331, fig. 4, 1876-77 (Amboina; Manila).— Lunel, Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. 

 Nat. Geneve, vol. 27, p. 270, 1881 (Mauritius).— Karoli, Term^sz. Fuzetek, 

 Budapest, vol. 5, p. 157, 1881 (Yokohama). — Nystrom, Bihang kon. 

 Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handlingar, Stockholm, vol. 13, No. 4, p. 15, 1887 (Naga- 

 saki). — Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 80, 1901 (Riu 

 Kiu, Nagasaki). — Franz, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., vol. 4, Suppl. vol. 1, 

 p. 47, 1910 (Yokohama; Aburatsubu). — Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 41, p. 560, 1912 (Nagasaki). — Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. 



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