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membrane and rays black, except last two rays which are white. 

 Eeaches 363 mm. (Day.) 

 Seas of India. 



SPARUS MEGALOMMATUS (Klunzinger) 



Pagrus niegalommatus Klunzinger, Verb. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 762, 



1870 (type locality: Red Sea). 

 Sparus (Pagrus) megalommatus Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., p. 43, pi. 4, 



fig. 3, 1884. 



Depth 2%; head 3. Snout 2% in head; eye 3%, l%o in snout, Iji in 

 preorbital depth; maxillary reaches ji in eye, length 2}^ in head, 

 greater than eye; 4 conic canines in front of each jaw; outer row of 

 conic teeth in each jaw laterally, with inner row of fewer small obtuse 

 teeth, their bases at least but little larger than those of jaw teeth; 

 interorbital low; preopercle edge uneven, entire. 



Scales 57 (on figure) in lateral line; 6 above, 14 below; cheek with 

 7 rows of scales to preopercle ridge angle, flange naked; fins naked, 

 except caudal base. 



D. XII, 10, third spine 2/3 in head, first ray 4^; A. Ill, 8, 

 second and third spines subequal, 2%, first ray 3; caudal 1, forked, 

 lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 3; ventral 1%; pectoral 

 2% in combined head and body to caudal base. 



Front yellowish. Mauve above, paler below. Fins uniform. 

 Length, 250 mm. (Klunzinger.) 



Red Sea, 



SPARUS HAFFARA Forsk&l 



Sparus haffara Forskal, Descript. Animal., p. 33, 1775 (type locality: Arabia). — 

 Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ichth., p. 101, 1788 (Red Sea). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 

 Linn., vol. 1, p. 1276, 1789 (Arabia). — Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 293, 

 1792 (on Forskal).— Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 279, 1801 (Red 

 Sea).— LACifipfcDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, pp. 31, 104, 1802 (Arabia). 



Chrysophrys haffara Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 108, 1830 (Red 

 Sea). — GuNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 488, 1859 (compiled). — 

 Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 759, 1870 (Koseir, Red 

 Sea). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 142, 1875 (part).— Sauvage, Hist. Nat. 

 Madagascar, Poiss., p. 194, pi. 25a, fig. 1, 1891 (Madagascar). — Pellegrin, 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 30, p. 84, 1905 (Bale d' Along, Tonkin); vol. 39, 

 p. 229, 1914 (Fort Dauphin, Madagascar). 



Chrysophris haffara Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, pp. Ill, 120, pi. 29, fig. 1, 

 1835 (Red Sea). 



Sparus (Chrysophrys) haffara Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., p. 44, 1884. 



Depth 2%; head 3K- Snout 2% in head, upper profile very convex; 

 eye 3^, 1% in snout, equals interorbital; maxillary reaches ji in eye, 

 length 2% in head; canines conic, blunt with age; 5 or 6 rows of upper 

 molars 3 below, last of middle row enlarged with age; interorbital 

 low; preopercle edge entire; preorbital deep as or little deeper than 

 eye. 



Scales 60 in lateral line, 6 above, 14 below, 3 rows on cheek to pre- 

 opercle ridge and flange naked. 



