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emarginate; pectoral reaches vent, fifth upper ray longest; ventrals 

 not produced in filaments. 



OHve, fins with reddish tinge. Body with seven narrow, slightly 

 oblique and undulating bluish bands, edged with darker. Narrow 

 parallel stripe of same color between every pair of bands. Bands 

 and stripes continued along side of head, but more irregular and 

 broken up in their course. Interradial membrane of soft vertical 

 fins with round violet spots as large as pupil of eye. Length, 305 mm. 

 (Giinther.) 



Celebes, Tongatabu. 



Genus PENTAPODUS Quoy and Gaimard 



Pentapodus (Cuvier) Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., p. 294, 1824' 



(Type, Pentapodus vitta Quoy and Gaimard, monotypic). (No description.) 

 Leiopsis Bennett, Mem. Life of Raffles, p. 688, 1830 (February). (Type, 



Leiopsis rafflesii Bennett, monotypic.) 

 Pentapus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 258, 1830 (September). (Type, 



Sparus vittatus Bloch, designated by Bleeker, Arch. Neerland. Sci. Nat. 



Harlem, vol. 11, p. 279, 1876.) 

 Maenoides Richardson, Icones Pise, p. 8, 1843. (Type, Maenoides aurofre- 



natus Richardson "^Penfopodus vitta Quoy and Gaimard, designated by 



Jordan, Classif. of Fishes, p. 197, 1923.) 

 Maenioides Jordan, Classif. of Fishes, p. 197, 1923. (Type, Pentapodus vitta 



Quoy and Gaimard.) (Error.) 

 Heterognathodon Bleeker, Journ. Indian Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 36, 1848. (Type, 



Heterognathodon bifasciatus Bleeker, monotypic.) 

 Gnathodentex Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, vol. 7, 



p. 41, 1873. (Type, Pentapus aurilineatus Bleeker, monotypic.) 



Body elliptical, compressed. Head moderate, acute in front. 

 Snout rather long, pointed. Eye moderate. Mouth cleft, moderate, 

 little oblique. Jaws equal. Maxillary expanded posteriorly. Jaws 

 with bands of vilHform teeth, often outer row little enlarged; 2 or 3 

 pairs of small anterior canines, outer of which usually flare outward. 

 Opercle with small spine. Preorbital narrow, deeply cleft. Branchi- 

 ostegals 6. Scales moderate, ctenoid, 35 to 65 in lateral line. Head 

 scaly, except snout, preorbitals, and suborbitals. Preopercle more 

 or less naked, more than 3 rows on cheek. Lateral line •with tubes 

 bifid, extend over entire exposed surface of scale. Dorsal spines 10, 

 rays 8 to 10, spinous part much longer than soft fin, one or both lobes 

 may end in filaments. Anal like dorsal, spines 3, rays 7 to 10, and 

 third spine longest. Pectoral short, pointed, rays 14 to 16. Ventral 

 inserted behind pectoral base, accessory scale present. 



Fishes of small size in the warmer Indo-Pacific. They differ from 

 Synagris chiefly in each of the outer front canines usually flaring 

 outward. The folloAving, the first without description and the 

 others imperfectly described, are doubtful species: 



