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Light brown, usually little paler below. Back and sides above 

 with pale-blue dark-edged spots, some on head and flanks elongated 

 and bar like. Iris brown, some small blue spots on bases of soft 

 dorsal, anal, and caudal. Paired fins pale brown, unspotted. 



Red Sea, East Africa, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Seychelles, 

 India, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, Japan, Queensland, Mela- 

 nesia, Micronesia, Polynesia. Our series of specimens all show rather 

 large spots variably present on the fins and sometimes as short 

 vertical bars as those on the flanks in the nominal Plectropoma 

 pessuliferum. 



5522. Catbalogan, western Sarnar. April 16, 1908. Length 390 mm. 



5521. Catbalogan. April 15, 1908. Length 218 mm. 



7608. Endeavor Strait, Palawan. December 24, 1908. Length 385 mm. 



Figure 6.— Plectropomus maculatus (Bloce), variation 



6289. Manila market. January 12, 1908. Length 580 mm. 



9036. Natabas Point, Samar. July 24, 1909. 



A. 1352. Great Tobea Island. December 15, 1909. Length 363 mm. 



PLECTROPOMUS LEOPARDUS (Lacepfcde) 



Holocentrus leopardics Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 332, 367- 



No locality. 

 Plectropoma leopard inum Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 392, pi. 



36 (Indian Ocean). — Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., pt. 1, 1842, p. 12 



(Nagasaki). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1S59, p. 157 



(Louisiades). — Karoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 150 



(Ceylon). 

 Plectropoma leopardus Richardson, Ichth. China, Japan, 1846, p. 230 



(compiled). 



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