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in each jaw, separated from posterior band of less developed similar 

 teeth by groove; interorbital 3 in head; preopercle edge with some 

 minute serrae at angle. 



Scales 49 in lateral line; 9 above, 17 below; cheeks covered with 

 small scales nearly to edge; opercle scaly on upper angle only, rest 

 like subopercle and interopercle naked; fins finely scaled over basal 

 portions; no scaly flaps in axils of paired fins. 



D. XIV, 14, seventh to fourteenth spines subequal or 2^ in head, 

 last ray 3; A. Ill, 11, third spine 2%, fourth to sixth rays subequal 

 or IK. 



Dark nut brown. Vertical lighter band from middle of spinous 

 dorsal to belly, occupied 3 rows of scales. Dorsal, anal, and ventral 

 blackish. Length, 208 mm. (Gtinther.) 



Two small specimens in the United States National Museum have 

 been identified with this species. They are evidently Atlantic and 

 from St. Vincent in the Canaries. No one but Castelnau has defi- 

 nitely recorded the species from AustraUan limits, even Giinther 

 questioning his type locality. 



U.S.N.M. No. 42067. Porto Grande. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris. 87.115. Length, 



44 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 42076. Porto Grande. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris. 87.116. Length, 



42 mm. 



GIRELLA MEZINA Jordan and Starks 



Girella mezina Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, p. 496, fig. 3, 

 1907 (type locality: Naha, Riu Kiu). — Jordan and Richardson, Mem. 

 Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, No. 4, p. 190, 1909 (Takao, Formosa). — Jordan 

 and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, p. 591, fig. 13, 1912 (Misaki 

 and Naha). — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 415 (Misaki), p. 

 501 (Okinawa), 1912. — Jordan and Thompson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, 

 No. 4, p. 257, fig. 29, 1914 (Misaki). 



Depth 2% to 2K; head Z% to 3%, width 1% to 1%. Snout 2% to Sji in 

 head; eye 3 to 4, greater than snout in young to 1)^ -with age, greater 

 than interorbital in young to 1% with age; maxillary reaches % in 

 eye in young, to eye with age, length 2% to 3 in head; teeth with outer 

 row of spatulate tricuspid incisors, followed by inner broad band of 

 smaller ones; interorbital 2% to 3%, broadly convex; preopercle edge 

 minutely denticulate. Gill rakers 13 + 24, lanceolate, 1% in gUl fila- 

 ments, which IK in eye. 



Scales 50 to 52 along lateral line to caudal base; 46 to 48 tubular 

 scales in lateral Ime to caudal base; 9 scales above, 18 or 19 below, 24 

 to 26 predorsal forward opposite front pupil edge; 14 or 15 rows over 

 cheek to preopercle ridge with 4 or 5 more on preopercle flange. 

 Scales with 14 to 18 basal radiating striae; 32 to 61 slender, short, 

 apical denticles, with 4 to 8 transverse series of basal elements; 

 circuli very fine. 



D. XIV, 14, I, last spine 2 to 2}^ in head, first ray 1% to 1%; A. Ill, 

 11,1, third spine 2Ko to 2%, first ray lYi to 1%; least depth of caudal 



