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Light brown, pale to whitish on lower sides and below, sides also . 

 with silvery white tinge. Iris whitish or buff. Fins all pale or very 

 light brownish, edges of dorsals, anals and caudal posteriorly dusky. 

 Pectoral uniformly pale yellowish brown. Ventral whitish, mem- 

 branes finely spotted or dotted with dusky to blackish, spots becom- 

 ing larger and deeper on inner membranes so usually large black 

 blotch on innermost membrane terminally nearly large as pupil. 



East Indies, Philippines, Formosa, China, Japan. A handsome 

 species reaching 225 mm. according to Boulenger. The dark spots 

 on the white ventral fins are diagnostic. The young quite different 

 from the adult in general appearance, with the entire spinous dorsal 

 and ventrals dusky, though always with 1 or 2 black blotches on the 

 innermost ventral membranes. They also have a long opercular 

 spine and a truncate caudal fin. 



1849. Cebu market. August 28, 1909. Length 46 mm. 

 6857. Kowloon market, China. October 22, 1908. Length 146 mm. 

 Four examples. Mansalay, Mincloro Island. June 3, 1905. Length 29 to 

 33 mm. 



2428 to 2430 D. 5442. San Fernando Point Light, N. 39° E.. 8.4 miles (16° 30' 



36" N., 120° 11' 06" E.). May 11th, 1909. Length 90 to 130 mm. 

 6521 U.S.N.M. No Locality. William Stimpson. Length 242 mm. Caudal 



ends in long filaments V2 rest of body. 

 32729 U.S.N.M. Indian Archipelago. Royal Museum Leiden. Length 167 mm. 

 56415 U.S.N.M. Hong Kong, China. P. L. Jouy. Length 62 mm. 

 76625 U.S.N.M. Takao, Formosa. Dr. F. Baker. Length 147 to 180 mm. 



3 examples. 

 87058 U.S.N.M. Foo Chow, China. A. Sowerby. 

 27572 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. Harrison and Hiller. 

 52872, 52881 A.N.S.P. Hong Kong. 1929. Henry W. Fowler. Length 172 to 



280 mm. 

 One A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Mus. Phila. Length 72 mm. 



PRIACANTHUS HAMRUR (Forskal) 



Sciaena hamrnr Fobskal, Descrip. Animal., 1775, pp. xi, 45. Djedda, Red 

 Sea.— BoNNATEiRRE, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 122 (Red Sea).— Gmexin. Syst. 

 Nat. Linn., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1789, p. 1299 (Arabia).— Walbatjm, Artedi Pise, 

 vol. 3, 1792, p. 313 (on Fobskal). 



Anthias hamrur Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 307 (Red Sea). 



Lutjanus hamrur Lac^pede. Hist. Nat. Pniss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 178. 209 (Arabia). 



Priacantlms hamrurh Cuviek, Hist. Nat. Poiss, vol. 3, 1829, p. 104 (Lohaja). — 

 GtJNTHEtB, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 219 (Red Sea).— Play- 

 pair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 18 (Zanzibar).— Peille«bin, Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, vol. 39, 1914, p. 224 (Fort Dauphin, Madagascar). 



Priacanthus hamrur RtJppELL, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 95 (name). — 

 Klunzingeb, Verb. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1870, p. 708 (Koseir).— 

 Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, p. 13 (Java, 

 Sumatra, Batu, Celebes. Sangi, Ternate, Batjan, Buru, Amboina) ; vol 

 8. 1876-1877, pi. (75)353. fig. 3.— Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wis.s. Berlin, 

 1876, p. 436 (Mauritius).— Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amster- 



