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Body slender, fusiform, well compressed. Head pointed, com- 

 pressed. Snout conic. E3^e small. Lower jaw slightly protrudes. 

 Teeth in several rows in jaws, on vomer and palatines. Scales 50 

 to 60 in lateral series. Temporal region, jaws and opercles scaly, 

 muzzle and maxillary scaleless. Dorsal, and anal scaleless, caudal 

 covered with fine scales. Dorsal undivided, spines 10, rays 11 or 12, 

 with last one elongated. Anal spines 3, rays 8 or 9 with last one 

 elongated. Caudal lobes acute. Pectoral pointed, much smaller than 

 ventral. 



A single wide-ranging species of the Indo-Pacific. 



APRION VIRESCENS Valenciennes 



Aprion vii-escens Valencieinnes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 544, pi. 168. 

 Seychelles. — GtJNTHER. Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 81 (compiled). — 

 GuicHENOT, Notes lie Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 24. — Platfaie, Proc. Zool. 

 See. London, 1867, p. 846 (Seychelles). — GtJNTHEB, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 

 vol. 1, pt. 1, 1873, p. 16 (Society and Hawaiian Islands). — Lunex, Mem. 

 Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve, vol. 27, 1881, p. 268 (Mauritius).— .Jenkins, 

 Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (1903), p. 452 (Honolulu).— Snyder, 

 Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (1904), p. 527 (Honolulu).— Jobdan 

 and EVEBMANN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 239, 

 fig. 99 (Honolulu, Hilo, Kailua). — Webeb, Siboga Exp. vol. 57, Fische, 

 1913, p. 257 (Sulu, Sulu Archipelago). — McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour, 

 vol. 3, pt. 3, Apr. 21, 1915, p. 143 (Gardner Bank, Queensland). — Jordan 

 and Starks, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, Nos. 3-4, 1917, p. 450 (Colombo, 

 Ceylon).— FowLERi, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 193, pi. 16, fig. C 

 (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, 

 p. 634 (Honolulu). 



Aprion (Aprion) virescens Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 8. 1867- 

 1877, p. 77 (Celebes, Ternate, Amboina). 



Mesoprion microchir Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 5, 1852, p 

 332. Amboina.— GuNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 186 

 (compiled). 



Chaetoptcrus niichochir Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, 

 pi. (15) 293, fig. 3. 



Sparopsis laUfrons Knek, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wi^s. Wien, vol. 57, pt. 1, 18()S, p. 

 27. Kandavu. Fiji. 



Sparopsis elongatus Kner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 57, pt. 1, 1868, 

 p. 303, pi. 3, fig. 6 (same tyi^e as Sparopsis latifrons). 



f Aprion konekonis Tanaka, Fishes of Japan, vol. 18, 1914, p. 300, pi. 82, fig. 27. 



Depth S% to 4; head 27/8 to 31/3, width 2^^ to 21/.. Snout 21/3 

 to 2% in head from snout tip; eye 4 to .5i/y, 1% to 2^4 in snout, 

 ly^ to 1% in interorbital ; maxillary not quite reaching eye or IVg 

 in eye, expansion 1% to 2 y^ in eye, length 214 to 2% in head from 

 snout tip; teeth in villiform bands in jaws, on vomer and palatines, 

 tongue smooth; an outer enlarged series of teeth in each jaw as 

 conspicuous canines all around, though anterior little largest; inter- 

 orbital 3 to 3%, but little elevated and mostly level; preopercle 



