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Math.-Phys. Kl., vol. 26, abth. 6, 1913, p. 13 (xMekran and Oman).— 

 Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische 1913, p. 313 (Amboina).— Pellegrin 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 39, 1914, p. 227 (Mahambo, Madagascar).— 

 McCuLLOcH, Austral. Zool., vol. 2, pt. 3, Feb. 10, 1922, p. 90, pi. 27 (New 

 South Wales). 



Chetodon daakar Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 81, pis. 95 and 389. 

 Red Sea. 



Chaetodon arthriticus Bell, Philos. Trans. Loudon, 1793, p. 8, pi. 6. Sumatra. 



Platax arthriticus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 229 (Java).— 

 Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (Cat. Malay Fish.), vol. 18, pt. 2, 1849, 

 p. 1151 (Pinang, Singapore).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 

 1860, p. 491 (Amboina, Pinang).— Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar Poiss ' 

 1891, p. 277. 



Plaiaxleschenaldi Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 223. New Guinea, 

 Pondichery. 



Platax leschenaulti Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 282. 



Platax baiavianus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 225. Batavia.— 

 Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, pt. 2, 1865, p. 165 (Singapore).— Bleeker 

 Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, 1877, p. 76, pi. (19) 381, figs. 1-2 (Suma- 

 tra, Nias, Pinang, Singapore, Bintang, Banka, Biliton, Java, Duizend 

 Islands, Celebes, Solor, Ternate, Am.boina, Waigiu). 



Platax hataviensis Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 278. 



Platax punctulatus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 228.' Timor. 



Platax vespertilio japonicus Schlegel, Faun. Japonica, Poiss dec 10-14 

 1846, p. 183, pi. 43. Nagasaki. 



Platax xanthopus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1, 1850, p. 105. 

 Batavia. 



Platax gamprct Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1, 1850, p. 105. 

 Batavia, Sumanap. 



Platax boersii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, p. 758. 

 Macassar. 



Chaetodon setosus Gray, Cat. Fish. Gronow, vol. 2, 1854, p. 76. "American 



Ocean." 

 Platax anagou Thiolliere, Fauna Woodlark, 1857, p. 170. V/oodlark Island. 

 Platax melanosoma Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerland. (Amboina), vol. 



8, 1860, p. 10. Amboina; Atlas Ichth., vol. 9, 1877, p. 75, pi. (18) 380, fig! 



4 (type; young). 

 Platax marginatus (Van Hasselt) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vol. 9, 1877, p. 76 



(name m synonj'iny). 

 Platax fuscus (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vol. 9, 



1877, p. 76 (name in synonymy). 

 Platax orbicularis (not Forskal) Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur Fisher 



vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 335 (Samoa).— Kendall and Goldsborough! 



Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, No. 7, 1911, p. 306 (Bora Bora). 

 Platax vespertilio (not Block) Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus vol 21 pt 



2, Oct. 1927, p. 606 (Mozambique). 



Depth liV to 11^; head 3, width l>g to 2. Snout 15^ to 2; eye 

 SH to 4)4, \% to 2\i in snout, 1 l to 1% in interorbital; teeth in 8 

 to 10 irregular series in jaws, forming broad bands, only outer or outer 

 2 series tridentate and these with lateral cusps small, low and incon- 

 spicuous; all other teeth slender and sunple conic points; maxillary 

 not reaching eye, only opposite hind nostril, 33^ to 3 H in head; inter- 

 orbital 2% to 3, broadly convex. Gill rakers 9 + 10, short, tubercles. 



