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D. XIII, 10; A. VII, 9; caudal little emarginate. Back blue, paler 

 below, everywhere strewn with numerous orange-brown spots. Front 

 and opercle greenish. Cheeks with 3 oblique lines with yellowish 

 intervals. Fins gray, end of dorsal with oval green spot. Length 

 152 mm. 



The two nominal forms, AmphacantJius chrysospilos Bleeker and 

 Amphacanthus melanospilus Bleeker, seem to be the present species. 

 Both are said to have deeply emarginate caudal fins and the propor- 

 tions given are more or less similar. The former is said to be blue, 

 dotted markedly with golden, with its length 292 mm. The latter is 

 said to have dark spots though with some golden ones intermixed, 

 and its length is 368 mm. 



SIGANUS NOTOSTICTUS (Richardson) 



Atnphacanihua notostictus Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., London, vol. 11, 



1853, p. 172. Port Essington. 

 Teuthis notosticta Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 320 (typej. — 



K.\ROLi, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 158 (Yokohama). 



Depth little over 3 in total. Caudal subtruncate. Light brownish 

 olive. Body with brown spots, which smaller than interspaces and 

 confluent on back into short, narrow, vermiculated streaks. (Giinther. ) 



SIGANUS STELLATUS (Forsk&l) 



Scams steUatus Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. x, 26. Djedda, Red 

 Sea. 



Amphacanthus stellatus Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 209 (Red 

 Sea). — RtJppELL, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 130. — Klunzinger, 

 Verh. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 503 (Red Sea). 



Teuthis stellata GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 320 (Red Sea 

 Ceylon).— Playi AIR, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 50 (Zanzibar). — Day, 

 Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 168. — Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 

 1884, p. 76.— Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 92. 



Theutis stellata Duncker, Mitth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, 1903 

 (1904), p. 159 (Singapore). 



Amphacanthus punctatus (not Schneider). Ruppell, Atlas Reise Xordlich. 

 Afrika, Fische, 1828, p. 46, pi. 11, fig. 2 (Red Sea). 



Aynphacanthus nuchalis Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 10, 1835, p. 

 140 (on Forskal and Ruppell). 



Depth 3 in total. Caudal forked. Grayish, covered all over with 

 brown spots, larger than interspaces. Greenish yellow spot at front 

 of dorsal. (Giinther.) 



According to Klunzinger reaches 320 mm. 



SIGANUS FUSCESCENS (Houttuyn) 



Sparus fuscescens Houttuyn, Verh. Holland. Maatsch. Haarlem, vol. 20, 

 1782, p. 333. Japan. 



Amphacanthus fuscescens Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 10, 1835, p. 

 156 (Japan). — Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., dec. 7-9, 1845, p. 127, pi. 

 68, fig. 1 (Nagasaki). — Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, 1846, p. 244 (Can- 

 ton). — Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genoot. (Nal. Ichth. Japan), vol. 25, 1853, 



