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angle or entire. Gill rakers long, slender. Scales moderate or 

 small, adherent, ctenoid, smooth. Head well scaled, also maxillary 

 and mandible. Soft vertical fins scaled basally. Lateral line nearly 

 straight, extends on caudal. Dorsal moderate, with 8 graduated 

 spines and 12 to 14 soft rays, which much higher than spines and 

 some anteriorly may be produced. Anal with 3 short graduated 

 spines and 12 soft rays which form fin-like soft dorsal. Caudal 

 lunate, outer rays sometimes produced. Pectoral short, blunt. 

 Ventrals little smaller, inserted below pectorals. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ Scales 50 in lateral line ; color largely uniform. 



&\ Suprascapula dull, like rest of body hebraicum. 



h'. Suprascapula covered with black skin scapulare. 



a^ Scales 60 in lateral line; 3 brown longitudinal bands above lateral line and 

 4 below fauvelii. 



GLAUCOSOMA HEBRAICUM Richardson 



Glaucosoma ? hebraicum Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Ichth., 1844- 



1846, p. 27, pi. 17. Houtman's Abrolhos, south western coast of Australia. 

 Glaucosoma tiirgeri Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Ichth., 1844-1846, p. 



27. On Glaucosoma Schlegel, Fauua Japonica, Poiss., pts. 2-4, 1843, p. 



62, pi. 27, south west coast of Japan. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 



1, 1859, p. 211 (Houtman's Abrolhos). — Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. 



Dierk., vol. 4, 1874, p. (117)150 (China). 

 Glaucosoma biirgeri Clark, Handb. Zool. Van der Hoeveu, vol. 2, 1858, p. 



176 (on Schlegel). — Castelnaxj, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 



3, 1878, p. 364 (Port Jackson). — Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., vol. 25, 1903, p. 342, fig. 15 (Keerun, Formosa). — Jordan and 



Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, 1910, No. 4, p. 185, fig. 13 (Takao, 



Formosa). — Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 39, 1911, p. 



440, fig. 1 (Keerun). 



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

 1^4 in snout, greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches nearly 

 opposite hind eye edge, expansion li^ in eye, length 1% in head 

 from snout tip; teeth villiform in jaws, upper biserial with outer 

 front ones caninelike, lower imiserial except in front where 

 irregular; narrow A-shaped band of fine teeth on vomer, none on 

 palatines; interorbital 5 in head; coarse blunt teeth at preopercle 

 angle. Gill rakers? 



Scales 52 in lateral line (figure shows 47 tabes to caudal base and 

 1 more on latter) ; 12 scales above lateral line, 20 below, 8 rows 

 across maxillary, 15 across cheek to preopercle ridge and 3 or 4 more 

 on preopercle flange below. Suprascapula entire. 



D. VIII, 11, I, last spine 3i/^ in total head length, second ray 2; 

 A. Ill, 9, I, third spine 41/5, second ray 2yV ; caudal II/3, little emar- 

 ginate behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 1%; 

 ventral 2tV- 



