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D. X, 13 or 14, fifth spine 2 to 2% in total head length, third 

 ray 1^/^ to ly^ ; A. Ill, 14 or 15, third spine 2iV to 21/4, third ray 

 1% to 2; caudal 1% to 1%, hind edge slightly convex; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 3% to 4i/^ ; pectoral 1% to 1% ; ventral 1 to II/4. 



Back brown, sides and below silvery white. Iris yellowish white. 

 Vertical fins pale brownish, membranes of all with more or less gray 

 or pale dusk}^ variable spots. Pectoral pale or whitish. Ventral 

 w^hitish, with some gray spots, variable, always less contrasted or 

 distinct than in Priacanthus tayenus. 



Arabia, Mozambique, East Indies, Philippines, Formosa, Japan, 

 North Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Hawaii. Known 

 by its light or pale coloration, never blackish on the vertical fins. 



[1297] [D. 5386.] Arena Point, Luzon. S. 5° W., 25.3 miles (13° 30' 30" N., 



122" 44' 30" E.). March 9, 1909. Length 123 mm. 

 3103 [D. 5516.] Point Tagolo Light, Mindanao, S. 80° W., 9.7 miles (8° 46' N., 



123° 32' 30" E.). August 9, 1909. Length 158 mm. 

 28673 U.S.N.M. No locality. Australian Museum. Length 215 mm. 

 28700 U.S.N.M. No locality. Australian Museum. Length 223 (?) mm. 

 42022 U.S.N.M. Port Jackson, New South Wales. Length 233 mm. 

 75474 U.S.N.M. Wakanoura, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length 277 (?) mm. 

 85483 U.S.N.M. Formosa. Dr. F. Baker. Length 182 mm. 

 85995 U.S.N.M. Foochow, China. A. Sowerby. 

 29764 A.N.S.P. Honolulu. Stanford University. Length 90 mm. 

 31795 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 280 mm. As 



Priacanthus meeki. 

 51390 A.N.S.P. Honolulu. Bishop Museum. Length 130 mm. 



PRIACANTHUS TAYENUS Richardson 



Priacanthus tayenus Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, 1846, p. 237. Canton, 

 China.— GiJNTHEK, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 221 (Canton).— 

 Bleekeb, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, p. 12 (Java, Suma- 

 tra, Singapore, Banka, Celebes, Amboina) ; vol. 8, 1876-1877, pi. (71) 349, 

 fig. 4. — Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 5, 1881, p. 104 

 (Swatow, China). — Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, p. 355 

 (Canton; Madras, Sumatra). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 

 467 (Luzon, Ilocos, Vigan, Marinduque, Mindoro, Calapan). — Fowler, 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 524 (Padang). 

 — Jordan and Seale, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., vol. 10, 1905, p. 10 (Hong 

 Kong) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, 1906, p. 521 (Hong Kong).— Jordan 

 and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, No. 4, Aug. 28, 1909. p. 192 

 (Takao, Formosa ) .—Fowler, Copela, No. 58, June 18, 1918, p. 63 (Philip- 

 pines). — Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 62, 1922, p. 26 

 (Takao).— Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 276 (Philip- 

 pines) ; 1929, p. 608 (Hong Kong), p. 633 (Padang, Sumatra). 



Priacanthus holocentrum Bleeicer, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Percoid.), vol. 22, 

 1849, p. 48. Batavla.— GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 220 

 (Sumatra). — Karoll, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 151 

 (Kobe, Japan). — Day, Fishes of India, Suppl., 1888, p. 784; Fauna Brit. 

 India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 482 (not fig. 148).— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., 

 vol. 1, 1895 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz, Paragua, Puerta Princesa). — 



