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of molars posteriorlj^ with tliird row enlarged below middle row of 

 developed molars; interorbital Sji; operole ends in short spine. 



Scales 58 in lateral line; 7 above, 11 below; 5 rows on cheek. 



D. XI, 13, fourth and fifth spines little over half of head; A. Ill, 

 11, second spine stronger and longer than third, long as mouth cleft 

 or 2% in head; pectoral reaches anal, 2% in body length. 



Back with pale and dark longitudinal streaks to level of pectoral 

 and below latter indistinct streak. Dorsal blackish, dotted and 

 marked "with median bar and above basal scaly sheath broad whitish 

 band. (Steindachner.) 



Mozambique, Mauritius. This little-lmown species seems to differ 

 chiefly in its coloration. Peters describes it briefly: 



D. XI, 14; A. Ill, 11; P. 15; V. I, 5; C. 18. Metallic bluish, head 

 greenish. On belly each side above ventrals narrow golden longi- 

 tudinal band. Fins dark, hind caudal and lower pectoral edges 

 yellowish. 



Genus PUNTAZZO Bleeker 



Puntazzo Bleeker, Arch. Neerland. Sci. Nat. Harlem, vol. 11, p. 284, 1876. 



[Type, Puntazzo annularis Bleeker = SporMS puntazzo Cetti, tautotypic. 



Puntazzo Bleeker proposed to replace Charax Risso (not Charax Gronow, 



1763, or ScoPOLi, 1777.)]— Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Merid., vol. 3, p. 353, 



1826. (Type, Sparus acutirostris DELAROCHE = /Span«s puntazzo Cetti, 



monotypic.) 



Body rather deep. Jaws and muzzle attenuate, form conspicuous 



rostrum. Eye moderate. Narrow row of incisors, projecting in 



front of each jaw, besides single row of small teeth in both jaws. Hind 



nostril oval. Opercle without spine. Preorbital deeper than eye. 



Branchiostegals 5. Air bladder simple. Pyloric coeca 7. Scales 



moderate. Cheeks scaled. Dorsal spines 11, depressible in groove. 



Anal spines 3. 



Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean to South Africa. 



PUNTAZZO PUNTAZZO (Cetti) 



Sparus puntazzo Cetti, Fauna Sardica, p. 28, 1784 (type locality: Sardinia). 

 Charax puntazzo Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 453, 1859 (Dalmatia; 



Lanzarote). — Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 709, 1927 



(Mossel Bay). 

 Charax capensis Castelnau, M^m. Poiss. Afrique Australe, p. 19, 1861 (type 



locality: Cape of Good Hope). — Thompson, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, 



No. 4, p. 93, 1918. 



Depth 2 to 2%; head 2% to 3}^, width 2}^ to 2%. Snout 2}i to 3 in 

 head; eye 3 to 4, IK to 1% in snout, 1 to 1)^ in interorbital; maxillary 

 reaches opposite hind nostril or to eye in young, length 2% to 3Ko in 

 head; teeth 8 slender, truncate incisors forv/ard in each jaw, other 

 teeth uniserial; interorbital 3}^ to 3^5, broadly convex; preopercle 

 entire. Gill rakers 6 + 9, short points, % of gill filaments, which 1% 

 in eye. 



