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Dorsal and anal scaleless, caudal minutely scaled. Lateral line 

 complete. Dorsal continuous, last ray extended like that of anal, 

 spines 10. Anal with 3 spines and 8 rays. Caudal forked. Pectoral 

 falcate, long as or longer than head, lower rays not extended. 

 Ventral rather small. 



Indo Pacific and West Indies. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ BowERSiA. Scales 47 to 60 in lateral line to caudal base. 



6'. Lower gill rakers 12 or 13 microdon. 



6'. Lower gill rakers 15 or 16 argyrogrammicus. 



a^ Peistipomoides. Scales 62 to 70 in lateral line to caudal base. 



c^ Lower gill rakers 18 or 19 microlepis. 



(f. Lower giU rakers 20 or 21 filamentosus. 



Subgenus BowERSiA Jordan and Evermann 

 Scales 47 to 60 in lateral line to caudal base. 



PRISTIPOMOIDES MICRODON (Steindachner) 



Aprion microdon SxEiNDACHNiat, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 74, 1876, 



p. 206. Hawaiian Islands. 

 Apsilus microdon Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (1903), p. 451 



(Honolulu). — Jordan and Evekmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 1, 



1903 (1905), p. 234 (Honolulu, Hilo, Kailua). 

 Platymim microdon Snydek, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (1904), p. 527 



(Honolulu). 

 Pristipomoides microdon Fowlee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 634 



( Honolulu ) . 

 Aphareus roseus Castexnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, 1879, 



p. 373. Port Jackson. 

 Aprion roseus McChlloch, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 11, No. 7, Feb. 20, 1917, 



p. 173, pi. 30 (Byron Bay, New South Wales) ; Australian Zoologist, voL 



1, pt. 7, 1919, p. 56, pi. 23, fig. 203o (New South Wales). 

 Bowersia violescens Jobdan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 



1902 (1903), p. 183 (Honolulu) ; vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 236, fig. 97 



(Honolulu).— Jordan and Snyder, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), 



p. 213 (Honolulu). 

 Platyinius amoenus Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, 1911, p. 530. Naha, 



Okinawa; vol. 42, 1912, p. 498, pi. 63, fig. 3 (type). 

 Aprion microlepis (not Bleeker) Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, 1916, 



p. 182 (Moreton Bay). 

 Aprion pristipoma (not Bleeker) (De Vis) Ogilby, :Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 



5, 1916, p. 182 (Moreton Bay example). 

 Pristipomoides sieboldii (not Bleeker) Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 



1928, p. 193 (Honolulu; type of Bowersia violescem). 



Depth 2y8 to 31/8 ; head 23/5 to 3, width 2 to 21/5. Snout 2% to 

 Z% in head from snout tip ; eye 314 to 3%, 1 to 1% in snout, greater 

 than interorbital in young to subequal with age; maxillary reaches 

 1/3 in eye in young to front eye edge with age, expansion 1% to 21/5 

 in eye, length 214 to 2V3 in head from snout tip; teeth in jaws 



