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D. XI, 11 or 12, third to fifth spine longest; A. Ill, 10 or 11, second 

 spine rather shorter but stouter than third. 



Silvery, grayish above, whitish below. Five to seven narrow 

 vertical black bars, often disappearing with age. Often more or less 

 distinct longitudinal dark Unes. Edges of opercle and pectoral dark. 

 Golden or bronzy band between eyes. Fins grayish. Dorsal often 

 with dark edge. Iris golden. Reaches 500 mm. (Barnard.) 



Southwest Africa, South Africa, Natal. 



SPARUS SARBA Forsk&l 



Sparus sarba ForskIl, Descript. Animal., pp. xi, 31, 1775 (type locality: Djedda, 

 Red Sea). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, p. 275, 1789 (Arabia). — 

 Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 294, 1792 (on Forskal). — Schneider, 

 Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 280, 1801 (Red Sea).— LACEPifcDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vol. 4, p. 30, 1802 (Arabia). — Jordan and Seale, Proc. Davenport Acad. 

 Sci., vol. 10, p. 10, 1905 (Hong Kong). — RotroHLEY, Fishes of Australia, 

 p. 1317, 1916 (east, north, and west coast lines). — Jordan and Starks, Ann. 

 Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, Nos. 3-4, p. 451, 1917 (Ceylon, China, Queensland), — 

 Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 687, 1927 (Algoa Bay, 

 East London, Natal, Zululand coast, Delagoa Bay), 



Aurata sarba Cloquett, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. 12, p. 554, 1818 (Red Sea). 



Chrysophrys sarba Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 102, 1830 (Mauri- 

 tius; Coromandel). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol, 1, p. 488, 1859 

 (Red Sea). — Gxtichenot, Notes lie Reunion, vol. 2, p. 25, 1862. — Kner, Reise 

 Novara, Fische, p. 88, 1865 (East Indies). — Playpair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 

 p. 45, 1866 (Zanzibar). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 

 p. 759, 1870 (Red Sea).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 142, pi. 34, fig. 6, 1875 

 (Madras). — Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, p. (350) 

 373, 1879 (Port Jackson).— GtJNTHER, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc, vol. 168, p. 

 471, 1879 (Rodriguez). — Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1887, p. 659 

 (Muscat). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 47, 1889. — Sauvage, 

 Hist. Nat. Madagascar, p. 195, pi. 25a, fig. 3, 1891 (Madagascar). — Stead, 

 Fishes of Australia p. 125, 1906 (Queensland, New South Wales). — Pelle- 

 GRiN, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 13, p. 203, 1907 (Bale de Tulwar, 

 Madagascar); Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 39, p. 226, 1914 (Fort Dauphin, 

 Madagascar). — Zxjgmayer, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., 

 vol. 26, pt. 6, p, 11, 1913 (Mekran). 



Chrysophris sarba Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, p. 110, pi. 28, fig. 1, 1835 

 (Red Sea). — Jouan, M^m. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 261, 

 1868 (Hong Kong). 



Sparus {Chrysophrys) sarba Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., p. 43, 1884 (Koseir). 



Sparus bufonites Lac^pJide, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, pp. 47, 141, pi. 2, fig. 3, 1802 

 (type locality: Great Equinoxial Ocean). 



Aurata bufonites Cloquett, Diet. Sci, Nat., vol. 12, p. 552, 1818 (reference). 



Sparus psittacus Laci^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 26, fig. 3, 1802; vol. 4, 

 pp. 47, 141, 1802 (type locality: Great Equinoxial Ocean), 



Aurata psittacus Cloquett, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. 12, p. 552, 1818 (reference). 



Chrysophrys chrysargyra Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 107, 1830 

 (on Chitchillee Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 1, p. 73, pi. 91, 1803, 

 type locality: Vizagapatam) . 



Chrysophrys aries Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 2-4, p. 67, pi. 3, fig. 31, 

 1843 (type locality: Nagasaki). — Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 240, 

 1846 (Chinese Seas). — Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 26, 



