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Depth 3%; head 3%. Snout 4K in head from snout tip; eye 3%, 

 little greater than snout; maxillary reaches % to eye, length 3K in head 

 from snout tip; interorbital low; preopercle edge slightly uneven. 



Scales 70 in lateral line to caudal base and 7 more on latter; 6 above, 



13 below, 5 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. Soft dorsal and anal 

 with low basal sheaths of very fine scales, becoming little higher 

 posteriorly; caudal base finely scaled. 



D. XIII, 13 (12, I on figure), fifth spine 2% in total head length, 

 first ray 2%o; A, III, 13 (11, i on figure), third spine 3% or subequal 

 w^ith first ray; caudal 1%, forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 3; 

 pectoral Iji; ventral Iji. 



Above lead colored, upper rows of scales each with more or less 



darker centers. Broad median brass-colored lateral band from head 



to caudal base, broad on costal region and narrowing behind. Lower 



half of body silvery white. Eye and fins uniform. Length, 153 mm. 



(Steindachner.) 



Arabia. 



Genus SARPA Bonaparte 



Sarpa Bonaparte, Prosp. Syst. St. Gener., p. 175, 1831. (Type, Sparus salpa 

 Linnaeus, designated by Jordan, Genera of Fishes, pt. 2, p. 175, 1919.) 

 (No description.) 



Eusalpa Fowler, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 162, p. 4, 1925. (Type, Sparus salpa 

 Linnaeus, orthotypic.) 



Body slender, depth 2% to 2% in its length. Upper teeth with 2 

 points, lower with single triangular point. Dorsal spines 11, rays 



14 to 16. 



Differs from Boops Cuvier chiefly in the oblong compressed body 

 and the relatively fewer dorsal spines. 



SAKPA SALPA (Linnaeus) 



Sparus salpa Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 280, 1758 (type locality: 



Mediterranean) . 

 Boops salpa Pappe, Synops. edible fishes Cape of Good Hope, p. 22, 1853 (Cape 



Town, Saldanha Bay). — Castelnau, M6m. Poiss. Afrique Australe, p. 31, 



1861 (Table, Simons, and Algoa Bays). 

 Box salpa Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 6, p. 165, 



1908-1911 (Natal) ; Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 4, p. 357, 1917 (references).— 



Thompson, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, No. 4, p. 85, 1918.— Barnard, 



Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 726, 1927 (Saldanha Bay, Table 



Bay, False Bay, Agulhas Bank, Natal, Delagoa Bay). 

 Sarpa salpa Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 243 (Natal). 



Depth 3; head 3%, width 1%. Snout 3Ko in head; eye 3;^, 1% in 

 snout, 1% in interorbital; maxillary reaches % in snout, length 3% in 

 head; teeth compressed, notched; interorbital 2%, convex. Gill 

 rakers 6 + 14, lanceolate. 



Scales 71 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 more on latter; 6 

 above, 14 below, 26 predorsal to occiput, 6 rows on cheek to pre- 

 opercle ridge. Scales with 9 or 10 basal radiating striae; 68 to 70 



