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A1570. Nan Wan Bay, Formosa. January 25, 1910. Length, 245 mm. 

 A1607. Nafa, Okinawa, Riu Kiu. February 7, 1910. Length, 560 mm. 

 20621. Sirinao Island, Nakoda Bay, near Alfonso XIIL December 30, 1908, 



Length, 62 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 30511. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length, 336 mm. 



As Lethrinus haematopterus. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 30604. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length, 178 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 30641. New Guinea. Linnaean Society of New South Wales. 



Length, 164 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 32725. Indian Archipelago. Royal Museum of Leiden. Length, 



164 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 65902. Vavau, Tonga Islands. Bureau of Fisheries (No. 08895). 



Length, 171 mm. As Lethrinus mahsenoides. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 75895. Borneo. H. C. Raven. Length, 181 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 27631. Padang, Sumatra. Harrison and Hiller. Length, 310 mm. 



Color when fresh in arrack pale olivaceous-brown, each scale on side with 



more or less pale spot and lower surface pale or whitish. Opercular flap buflf 



color. Vertical fins olivaceous-brown. Caudal little dusky marginally with 



several dusky wavy cross lines. Paired fins tinged dilute greenish yellow. 



Inside gill opening orange-red. Iris yellowish. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 53093 to 53095. Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa. July, 



1923. H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 127 to 213 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 53132. Bombay, India. Prof. F. Hallberg. 1924. Purchased. 



Length, 175 mm. 



LETHRINUS VARIEGATUS Valenciennes 



Figure 5 



Lethrinus variegatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 287, 1830 (type 

 locality: Massuah; Suez). — Peters, Arch. Naturg., 1855, pt. 1, p. 243 

 (Mozambique). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 751, 

 1870 (Red Sea).— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, p. 117, pi. 

 (50)328, fig. 3, pi. (52)330, fig. 2, 1876-1877 (Celebes, Flores, Timor, Hal- 

 mahera, Ternate, Burn, Ceram, Amboina, Coram, Banda). — Kossman and 

 Rauber, Wiss. Ergebn. Reise Kiistengeb. Roth. Meers, vol. 1, p. 11, 1877 

 (Red Sea). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, p. 247, 

 1882 (New Guinea). — Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., vol. 1, p. 38, 1884. — 

 Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 200, pi. 21, fig. 2a-b, pi. 25, 

 fig. 4, 1891 (Massaua). — Weber, Semon's Zool. Forsch. Reis. Austral., vol. 

 5, p. 265, 1895 (Ambon). — Jordan and Starks, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 

 11, Nos. 3-4, p. 451, 1917 (Ceylon). — Herre and Montalban, Philippine 

 Journ. Sci., vol. 33, No. 4, p. 409, pi. 3, fig., 1927 (Calapan, Canigao 

 Island, Samal Island). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 213, 1928 

 (compiled) . 



Lethrinus semicinctus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 294, 1830 

 (type locality: Bourou). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 202, 

 pi. 19, fig. 3a-b, 1891 (type). 



Lethrinus latifrons Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, p. 118, pi. 28, fig. 1, 1835 

 (type locality: Mohila, Red Sea). — Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 

 p. 458, 1859 (compiled). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 44, 1866. 



Depth 3% to 3%; head 2% to 2%, width 2% to 2%. Snout 2]^ to 

 2% in head; eye 3)^ to 4%, \)i to 1% in snout, greater thaa interorbital 

 in young to subequal with age; maxillary reaches eye, length 2% to 

 3Xo in head; teeth uniserial, conic, 4 as canines in front of each jaw; 



