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with inner molar and outer lower conic; interorbital 3%, slightly 

 convex. Gill rakers 8 + 12, lanceolate. 



Scales 57 in lateral line to caudal base and 9 more on latter; 8 

 above, 17 below, 36 predorsal, 8 rows across cheek to preopercle ridge. 

 Scales with 10 or 11 basal radiating striae; 76 to 81 apical denticles, 

 with 2 to 4 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. XII, 9, I, fifth spine 3 in head, first ray 4; A. Ill, 8, i, second 

 spine 3X, first ray 4; caudal 1%, widely emarginate; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 3%; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Mauve-pink, darker on back and over and behind eye. Some 

 mauve and pink at corner of upper lip and above; pectoral, dorsal, 

 and anal pink at tips, caudal darker, wdtli pale gamboge on fringe. 

 Ventral pale mauve-pink. Anal darker. Eye silvery, with pink. 

 Cheek and belly white. 



South Africa, Natal. Possibly Pagellus armatus Castelnau is this 

 species. It is said to resemble greatly Pagellus ajer Pappe, but form 

 little more elongate. Body rose-violet, below whitish. No trace of 

 transverse bands on body ; caudal and upper pectoral border somewhat 

 pink. Iris silvery white. Teeth biserial ; 2 canines each side in both 

 jaws. D. XI, 11;A. Ill, 8;P. 15;V. I, 5;C. 17. 



A.N.S.P. No. 53034. Port St. John, Natal coast, 3 miles out in 8 fathoms. H. W. 

 Bell Marley. Length, 207 mm. 



SPARUS NASUTUS (Castelnau) 



Chrysophrys nasutus Castlenau, M6m. Poiss. Afrique Australe, p. 24, 1861 

 (type locality: Table Bay); Rec. London Internat. Exhib., pt. 7, No. 5, p. 9, 

 1873 (Cape of Good Hope). 



Pagrus nasutus Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 695, pi. 29, 

 fig. 2, 1927 (False Bay, Agulhas Bank, Natal, in 40 fathoms). 



Pagrus nigripinnis Boulenger, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 3, p. 67, pi. 7, 1903 

 (type locality: Natal coast). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South Afric. 

 Mus., vol. 6, p. 169, 1908-1911 (Natal); Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 4, 

 p. 362, 1917 (references). — Thompson, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, 

 vol. 4, p. 88, 1918. — VON Bonde, South Afric. Fisher. Marine Biol. Surv., 

 Special Rep. No. 1, p. 20, 1923. 



Depth 2% to 2K; head 2%, profile sloping, gently convex. Snout 

 thick and prominent with age, forms "nose" depending over upper 

 lip; eye 4K to 5 in head, 1% to 2 in snout, IK in interorbital, slightly 

 less than preorbital depth; 4 canines in each jaw, sometimes also 2 

 small median ones in lower jaw; row of large conic molars on side, 

 with smaller series within; preorbital scaleless, hind edge nearly 

 vertical, lower hind angle behind mouth angle, lower edge concave, 

 at least with age. Gill rakers 10 below on first arch. 



Scales 62 to 65 in lateral line; 10 to 12 above, 21 to 24 below, 16 

 rows on cheek and preopercle flange largely scaly. 



D. XII, 10, spines strong, not filamentous, third to fifth longest; 

 A. Ill, 8, spines stout, second and third about equal. 



