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(West Australia and Queensland). — Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, 



No. 4, 1910, p. 275 (Sandakan, Borneo). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57 



Fische, 1913, p. 215 (Makassar). — Zugmayer, Abb. Bayer. Akad. Wise. 



Math-Phys. Kl., vol. 26, pt. 6, 1913, p. 9 (Mckran and Oman).— Fowler, 



Copcia, No. 58, June 18, 1918, p. 63 (Philippines); Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1927, p. 275 (San Fernando, Orani, Orion, Philippines); 



Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 171 (compiled). 

 Lalris calcarifer Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1S93, pi. 43, fig. 1. 

 Plectropoma calcarifer Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 1873-76, 



p. 109 (Java, Madura, Singapore, Banka, Borneo, Celebes); vol. 8, 



1876-77, pi. (45) 322, fig. 3. 

 Pleciropomus calcarifer Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 



(1907), p. 19 (Cavite). 

 Plectropoma calcariferum Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 



1906 (1907), p. 7S (Zamboanga). 

 Perca calcar Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 89. Japan. 

 Holocentrus heptadactylus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 344, 



389. No locality. 

 Lates heptadactylus Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fishes, 1850, p. 1 (Pinang Sea, 



Malay Peninsula, Singapore). 

 Coius vacti Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, 1822, pp. 86, 369, pi. 



16, fig. 28. All mouths of Ganges River. 

 Lates nobilis Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 96, pi. 13. Pondi- 



cherry. — Richardson, Ichth. China, Japan, 1S46, p. 222 (Canton, China). 

 Pseudolates cavifrons Alletne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 



Wales, vol. 1, 1S77, p. 262, pi. 3. Torres Straits or the coast of New 



Guinea. 

 Lates darwiniensis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 2, 1878, 



p. 345. Port Darwin, Queensland. 



Depth 3 to 2%; head 2% to 2%, width 3}/ 8 to 2> l A. Snout 4% to 

 5% in head from snout tip; eye 7}/£ to 8, 1% to 13^ in snout, equals 

 interorbital; maxillary extends ^ to ^ an eye diameter bej^ond eye, 

 expansion y% to slightly greater than eye diameter, length 2% to 2% 

 in head from snout tip; teeth villiform, in bands in jaws, on vomer, 

 palatines and tongue; interorbital 7^ to 8*^; hind preopercle edge 

 finely serrated, though serrae inconspicuous with age, 3 or 4 spines 

 along lower edge and larger spine at angle; opercular spine little 

 smaller than spine at preopercle angle. Gill rakers 4 + 16, lanceolate, 

 longer than gill filaments and equal eye. 



Scales 45 to 56 in lateral line to caudal base and 7 to 9 more on 

 latter; 6 or 7 above, 10 to 14 below, 27 or 28 predorsal though not 

 quite extending opposite eye; 10 rows extend across cheek to pre- 

 opercle ridge, flange scaleless; muzzle including maxillary, infraorbitals 

 and interorbital naked; small scales extend over most soft rayed 

 fins. Scales with 9 or 10 basal radiating striae; 98 to 315 rather 

 obsolete apical denticles with about 32 to 50 transverse series of 

 basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. VII, I, 10, i, or 11, i, third spine 2 to 2}4 in total head length, 

 third ray 2]/ h to 2%,; A. Ill, 8, i, third spine 4^ to 53^, third ray 2)4 



