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Pnaca'Hthus benmeburi Schlegel, Fauna Japou.. Poiss., pt. 1, 1842, p. 19, pi. 7. 



fig. 1, Bays of southwest coast of Japan. — Richardson, Ichtli. of China 



Japan, 1846, p. 237 (two of Burger's Japanese specimens). — BuEEKEai, Verh. 



Batav. Genootsch. (Nal. Ichth. Japan), vol. 25, 1853, pp. 10, 25 (Nagasaki) ; 



(Nal. Ichth. Japan) vol. 26, 1857, p. 4 (Nagasaki) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neer- 



land., No. 3, vol. 3, 1857-1858, p. 2 (Kioesio), p. 5 (Japan). — GiJNTHEB. Cat. 



Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1858, p. 218 (Japan) ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3. 



vol. 20, 1867, p. 57 (Sydney).— Schmeltz. Cat. Mus. GodefEroy, No. 6. 



1877, p. 12 (Sydney). — CAvSTEI^nau, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



vol. 3, 1878, p. (349) 369 (Port Jackson).— Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. 



Godeffroy, No. 7, 1879, p. 38 (Sydney). — GtJNTHBR, Rep. Voy. Challenger. 



vol. 1, pt. 6, 1880, p. 39 (Arafura Sea).— Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espail. Hist. Nat., 



Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 11 (North Celebes). — Nystbom, Svensk. Vet. Akad. 



Handl. Stockholm, vol. 13, 1887. No. 4 ( Nagasaki ) .—Waite, Sci. Rep. Thetis, 



1898, p. 25 (off Newcastle in 16 to 40 fathoms). 

 Priacanthits japonicus (not Cxr\'iE3{) Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland Indie, 



vol. 2, 1851, p. 171 (Siboga, Sumatra). 

 Priacanthus hlochii (part) Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 4, 1853. 



p. 456 (Batavia and Siboga).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, 



p. 218 (Moluccas, Amboina). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 18 

 (Aden and Mozambique Channel). 

 Priacanthus bleekeri Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclim. Soc. Victoria, vol. 2, 1873, 



p. 100. Knob Island, North Australia. 

 Priacanthus ham/rur (part) Sauvage. Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 125 



(type of Priacanthus macracanthus Ctjvier). 

 Priacanthus meeki Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22. 1902 (1903), p. 450, 



fig. 20. Honolulu. — Jordan and E\t:rmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, 



pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 231, fig. 95 (type; Honolulu; Hilo ) .—Fowler, Copeia. 

 No. 112, Nov. 20, 1922, p. 83 (Hawaii). — Jordan, Evermann and Tanaka. 



Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 14, No. 20, 1927, p. 663, pi. 23, fig. 1 

 (Honolulu). 

 Priacanthus helvolus Jordan, Evebmann and Tanaka, Proc. California Acad. 

 Sci., ser. 4, vol. 14, No. 20, 1927, p. 664, pi. 23. fig. 2. Honolulu. 



Depth 2% to 278; head 23^ to 3%, width 2 to 2i/8- Snout 31/5 to 

 3% in head from snout tip; eye 214 to 2%, greater than snout or 

 interorbital ; maxillary reaches % to I/2 in eye, expansion 1% to 2 

 in eye, length lyg to 2 in head from snout tip; teeth fine, short, uni- 

 form, in 2 or 3 irregular rows forming bands in jaws, on vomer and 

 palatines; interorbital 3i^ to 4i/8, slightly convex; preopercle edge 

 minutely denticulate, ends in widely triangular spine in yoimg, forms 

 only as obtuse angle with age. Gill rakers 7+12, lanceolate, equal 

 gill filaments or 2% in eye, of which 4 or 5 above rudimentary. 



Scales 85 to 96 counted along (above) lateral line to caudal base 

 and 12 more on latter; tubes 66 to 68 in lateral line to caudal base 

 and 8 more on latter; 12 to 14 scales above lateral line, 40 to 42 

 below, 56 predorsal forward to snout tip; cheek with 15 scales of 

 which 5 on preopercular flange. Suprascapula entire. Scales with 

 23 small apical denticles and apical end of each scale with 3 or 4 

 transverse rows; circuli very fine. 



