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Depth 1% to 3. Eye 4, less than snout or interorbital ; preopercle 

 edge serrate; opercular spine pointed. 



Scales 110 in longitudinal series; interorbital space scaly. 



D. XI, 21, spinous portion much less than twice long as soft por- 

 tion, median spines longest, nearly % head, front rays much longest 

 or Uttle longer than head; A. Ill, 15, third spine longest, front rays 

 longest, like soft dorsal; caudal emarginate. 



Silvery, with 5 black subvertical cross bands, first through eye, 

 last at caudal base, which fin with black edge. Length, 150 mm. 

 (Barnard.) 



Natal. 



OPLEGNATHUS PUNCTATUS (Schlegel) 



Figure 12 



Scarodon punctatus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 5-6, p. 91, 1844 

 (type locality : Nagasaki) . 



Hoplegnathus punctatus Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 247, 1846 (South 

 Japan and China). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, p. 358, 1861 

 (China). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 533, 1895 (Luzon, Cavite). 



Hoplognathus punctatus Steindachner and Doderlein, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien, math.-nat. KL, vol. 48, p. 24, 1884 (Tokio, Kobe, Kanagua, Hako- 

 date). — Nystrom, Bihang kon. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handlingar, Stockholm, 

 vol. 13, No. 4, p. 38, 1887 (Nagasaki). — Ishikawa and Matsuura, Prelim. 

 Cat. Fishes Mus., Tokyo, p. 34, 1897. 



Oplegnathus punctatus Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, p. 77, 

 1902 (Tokyo, Misaki, Wakanoura, Kobe, Nagasaki). — Jordan and Thomp- 

 son, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 4, p. 259, 1914 (Osaka). — Izuka and 

 Matstjura, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus., p. 147, 1920 (Boshiu). — Fowler, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), p. 649 (Wakanoura).— 

 Schmidt, Bull. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., 1931, p. Ill (Obama); Trans. Pacific 

 Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 2, p. 74, 1931 (Nagasaki). — Anonymous, 

 lUustrat. Jap. Aquat. Plants Animal., vol. 1, pi. 31, fig. 1, 1931. 



Oplegnathus punctata Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, No. 2, 

 p. 245, 1925 (Kobe, Mikawa Bay, Misaki, Toyama, Miyazu). 



Hoplegnathus maculosus Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 247, 1846 (type 

 locality: Sea of China; Canton). 



Depth V/i to 1%; head 2% to 3, width 2 to 2%. Snout 2% to 3 in 

 head; eye 4 to Aji, 1% to 1% in snout, 1 to 1% in interorbital; maxil- 

 lary reaches below second nostril, length 3 to Sji in head; 34 rows of 

 tilehke fused teeth, forming rough cutting edge, developed along each 

 dental margin; interorbital 3% to 4, convex; preopercle edge with fine 

 blunt serrae. Gill rakers 7 + 15, lanceolate, 2% in gill filaments, which 

 lYz in eye. 



Scales 108 to 110 along lateral line to caudal base; tubular scales 

 80 to 82 in lateral line to caudal base; 34 scales above lateral line, 50 

 below, 40 predorsal extending forward to occiput and 21 more for- 

 ward opposite hind nostril; 27 rows across cheek. Scales with 6 to 10 

 basal radiating striae; 5 to 10 large slender apical denticles, fewer in 

 single row, more numerous row alternate; circuli rather coarse. 



