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Depth 21/3 ; head 314. Snout 5 in head from snout tip ; eye 21/5, 

 more than twice eye, equals postocular; maxillary reaches about % 

 in eye, expansion 21/5, length 1% in head; interorbital apparently 

 level. Scales 52. 



D. V, 12 (9 in description), first ray II/5 in total head length; A. 

 Ill, 42 (43 in description), first ray 2; caudal IVs; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 4% ; pectoral 1% ; ventral 1%. 



Warm brown. Anal, caudal, and pectoral yellowish. Front of 

 dorsal basally, also of anal and ventral deeper or more reddish 

 brown than rest of body. In the figure apparently 2 of the anal rays 

 little behind middle of fin were dusky brown. Length 150 mm. 

 (Cuvier and Valenciennes.) 



Arabia, Natal, Seychelles, India, Pinang, East Indies, Japan. 



PEMPHERIS ANALIS Waite 



Pempheris analis Waite, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 42, 1910, p. 375, pi. 36. 

 Denham Bay, Kermadec Islands. — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 2, 

 Dec. 10, 1913, p. 67 (copied). 



Depth 21/2 ; head 3. Snout 7 in head from snout tip; eye 21/4, 

 greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches % in eye, ex- 

 pansion 2% in eye, length 2 in head from snout tip; narrow band 

 of setiform teeth in jaws, on vomer and palatines. Scales 69 in 

 lateral line to caudal base and 18 more on latter fin. 



D. VI, 9; A. Ill, 31 to 34. Purplish brown, head lighter below. 

 Golden spot behind eye. Dorsal, caudal and paired fins yellow 

 Anal gray. Spines and tip of dorsal and axis and base of pectoral 

 black, also first few anal rays black. Length 189 mm. (Waite.) 



Near Pempheris oualensis Cuvier in color, but differing in the 

 fewer anal rays. 



PEMPHERIS KLUNZINGERI McCuUoch 



Pempheris khinzlntjeri McCulloch, Zool. Res. Endeavour, pt. 1, 1911, p. 47 (on 

 Klxjnzingee). — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 2, Dee. 10, 1913, p. 66 

 (compiled). 



Pempheris mulleri (not Poey 1860) Klunzingek, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien. 

 vol. 80, pt. 1, 1879, "p. 380, pi. 6. King George's Sound. 



Depth 21/^; head 3%. Snout 7 in head from snout tip; eye 2, 

 314 times greater than snout ; maxillary reaches I/2 ^^ ^J^, expansion 

 2%, length lj% in head from snout tip; teeth villiform; interorbital 

 low, scarcely elevated. Scales about 90 in lateral line to caudal 

 base (75 in description) ; 9 scales above lateral line, 27 below. 



D. V, 10 (V, 11 on figure), first ray greater than head or 3 in 

 combined head and body to caudal base; A. Ill, 39 to 40 (38 rays 

 on figure), second ray 21^ in total head length; caudal 1%, mod- 

 erately concave behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 3; pectoral 

 li/s; ventral 21/3. 



