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2% in eye, length 1% in head from snout tip; teeth small; inter- 

 orbital but little elevated. Scales 45 in lateral line, 35 between 

 opercle angle and caudal base ; 3 scales above lateral line, 14 below. 



D. VI, 9 or 10 (11 branched rays on figure), first ray li^ in 

 total head; A. Ill, 36 or 37, first ray IVs; caudal li/g, emarginate; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 314; pectoral 1^; ventral 21/5. 



Brownish golden, below pale or golden silvery. Iris yellowish 

 rosy. Fins rosy. Dorsal broadly blackish or brownish apically. 

 Anal violet, blackish basally. Caudal above, below and posteriorly 

 margined blackish or brownish. Pectoral without basal black 

 blotch. Length 119 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Natal, East Indies. 



PEMPHERIS MACROLEPIDOTUS (Schneider) 



Kurtus macrolepidotus Schneideb, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 164. Tran- 

 quebar. 



Pempheris macrolepidota Ogu^y, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 2, Dec. 10, 1913, 

 p. 66 (compiled). 



Pempheris molucca Cuviek, Regne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, 1829, p. 195 (on 

 Renabd, Poiss. Moluqiies, vol. 1, 1718, p. 15, 85). — Yalenciennes, Rggne 

 Animal, Cuvier, 111., Poiss., 1839, pi. 44, fig. 2 (Moluccas). — Cantoe, Journ. 

 Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, 1849, p. 1157 (Pinang).— Guntheb, Cat. 

 Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 509 (Madras, Malayan Peninsula, Moluc- 

 cas). — Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 108 (compiled) ; Fishes of India, 

 pt. 2, 1876, p. 175 (not pi. 42, fig. 2). — Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1889, p. 239 (Muscat). — Ishikawa and Matsuuea, Prelim. Cat. Fish. 

 Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 40. — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South Afric. 

 Mus., vol. 6, 1908-1911, p. 178 (Durban). — Zugmayer, Abhandl. K. Bayer. 

 Akad. Wiss., Math.-physikal. Klasse, vol. 26, 1913, p. 13 (Oman).— Pexub- 

 GRiN, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 30, 1914, p. 224 (Mahambo, Madagascar).— 

 Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1. pt. 4, 1917, p. 320 

 (compiled). 



PempJieris nwluca Cuvieb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, 304 (Moluccas, Bata- 

 via). — Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 244 (compiled). 



Pempheris malabarica Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 308. Mah^, 

 Malabar. — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, 1876, p. 175; Fauna Brit. India, 

 Fishes, vol. 2, 1889, p. 100. — Thurston, Notes Pearl Fisher. Manaar, 



1890, p. 92 (Tuticorin). 



Pempheris mmigula (not Cuvier) Bleekee, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, 

 187^-1877, p. 6 (part).— Sauvagb, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 

 285 part). — Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, Oct. 1927, 

 p. 666 (part). 



Pempheris japonicus (Dodeelein) Steindachner and Dode}rlein, Denkschr. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-nat. KL, vol. 48, pt. 1, 1884. p. 29. Tokyo. — 

 Fbanz, Abh. Bayer, Akad. Wiss., Suppl. Band 1, 1911, p. 33 (Yokohama).— 

 Jobdan and Thompson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 4, Sept. 1914, 

 p. 246 (Misaki). — Izuka and Matsuura, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Imp. Mus., 

 1920, p. 156 (Kawajiri, Satsuma). 



Catalufd japoniea Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10. No. 2, 

 June 27, 1925, p. 227 (Toba). 



