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Depth 2 to 2)^; head 2% to 2%, width l^o to 2%. Snout 2K to 

 2% in head, upper profile shghtly concave; eye 3 to 3%, 1}^ to IK in 

 snout, greater to subequal with interorbital; maxillary reaches oppo- 

 site front eye edge, expansion 2}^ to 2% in eye, length 2% to 2^ in 

 head; 4 upper and 5 or 6 lower front canines, jaw teeth with outer 

 uniserial even lower conic teeth with inner band in each jaw of low or 

 granular teeth; interorbital 3 to 3%, convex. Gill rakers 8+10, 

 lanceolate, nearly long as gill filaments, which Sji in eye. 



Scales 47 to 49 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 or 6 larger scales, 

 mostly tubeless, counted out over latter; 5 above, 14 or 15 below, 

 25 to 31 predorsal forward opposite front eye edge, 5 or 6 rows on 

 cheek to preopercle flange. Scales with 9 to 11 basal radiating striae, 

 sometimes many as 5 incomplete auxiliaries; 56 to 95 short sharp 

 pointed apical denticles, with 3 to 11 transverse series of basal ele- 

 ments; circuli very fine. 



D. XII, 10, I, fourth spine 2 to 2}^ in head, first ray 2% to 2%; 

 A. Ill, 8, I, second spine 2^ to 3Ko, first ray 2^ to 2%; caudal 1% to 1%, 

 moderately forked, lobes broad, pointed; least depth of caudal pedun- 

 cle 2% to 3; ventral 1% to Iji; pectoral 2% to 2% in combined head 

 and body to caudal base. 



Back pale to light brown, sides and below white, washed with sil- 

 very. Iris white, often some gray above. Fins pale. 



China, Formosa, Japan. 



1841 (D. 5314) (lat. 21° 41' N., long. 116° 46' E.), China Sea. November 5, 



1908. Length, 145 mm. 

 5257. San Fernando, Union Province, Luzon. March 17, 1908. Length, 255 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 59742. Kochi, Japan. Dr. H. M. Smith. Length, 152 mm. 

 Two examples (with U.S.N.M. No. 75436.) Tokyo, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. 



Length, 79 to 80 mm. As Sparus swinhonis. These do not have any posterior 



molars. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 86452. China. A. de C. Sowerby. Length, 240 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 86453. China. A. de C. Sowerby. Length, 238 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 52864. Hong Kong. Henry W. Fowler. Length, 146 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 52900. Nagasaki. Henry W. Fowler. Length, 220 mm. 



DENTEX SPARIFORMIS Ogilby 



Dentex spariformis Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 23, p. 91, 1910 (type 

 locality: 36 miles S., 12° W. from Moreton Island, Queensland, in 73 fathoms) ; 

 Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 169, pi. 21, 1916 (off Cape Moreton). 



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

 3K, 1% in snout, greater than eye; maxillary reaches ji in eye, length 

 2% in head; jaws equal; 2 front pairs of strong curved canines anteri- 

 orly; jaws with bands of vomerine teeth, outer series stout conic ones; 

 interorbital 3K to S%, strongly convex; preopercle edge entire; pre- 

 orbital depth 1% in eye. Gill rakers 6 or 7 + 12 or 13, well developed, 

 3 to 3^3 in eye. 



