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Depth 3% to 41/2; head 31/0 to 3%, width 1% to l^/g- Snout 

 3% to 4 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 3% to 4, 1 to li/g in snout, 

 1% to 11/4 in interorbital ; maxillary reaches to or % in eye, ex- 

 pansion 1% to 2 in eye, length 2^^ to 2yg in head from upper jaw 

 tip; teeth feeble, very minute; interorbital 3% to 4, but little con- 

 vex. Gill rakers 8 to 10 + 21 to 23, lanceolate, little less to equal gill 

 filaments or 1% in eye. 



Scales 70 to 72 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 or G more on 

 latter ; 7 scales above lateral line, 14 or 15 below, 26 to 28 predorsal 

 forward opposite front pupil edge. Scales with 10 to 14 basal 

 radiating striae; apical denticles 30 to 65, with 1 to 7 transverse 

 series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. X or XI, 21, I or 22, i, third spine 2 to 2% in total head 

 length, first ray 2% to 2%; A. Ill, 12, i or 13, i, second spine 2% 

 to 3, first ray 3l^ to 3% ; caudal lYs to 1%, well forked ; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2% to 31/2 ; pectoral li/g to IV2 ; ventral ly^ to 2. 



Olive brown above with bluish tint and obsolete gray band from 

 hind eye to caudal base. Above 3 or 4 dark longitudinal lines fol- 

 low scale courses, not sharply defined. Under surface of body white. 

 Iris whitish. Fins pale, dark longitudinal band on each caudal 

 lobe and dark spot at pectoral origin and axil. 



Mauritius, Madagascar, East Indies, Philippines, Melanesia, 

 Micronesia, Polynesia. Besides the materials below I have also ex- 

 amined 18 examples from Oceania. There is little doubt but that 

 Caesio cylindricus is a synonym. Sauvage gives D. XIII, 17 in 

 his description though his plate shows XVII, 18 ? 



65438 U.S.N.M. Mangareva. Albatross Collection. Length 135 to 148 mm. 3 

 examples. 



Genus CAESIO Lacepede 



Caesio Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, p. 85. Type Caesio caeru- 

 laureus IjActptnE, designated by Bleeker, Arch. N6eiiand. Sci. Nat. Har- 

 lem, vol. 11, 1876, p. 274. 



Odontonectes Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 265. Type Caesio 

 erythrogaster (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Cuviek, monotypic. 



Paracaesio Bleeiker, Rech. Faune Madagascar, Pollen et Van Dam, pt. 4, 1875, 

 pp. 38, 92. Type Caesio xanthurtis Bleekeb, monotypic. 



Body oblong, back sometimes little high. Head pointed, com- 

 pressed. Eye moderate. Upper jaw moderate or well protractile. 

 Mouth cleft more or less oblique, jaws equal or lower slightly 

 longer. Teeth fine, in bands in jaws, rudimentary or absent from 

 vomer, none on palatines. Preopercle entire or minutely denticu- 

 lated. Pseudobranchiae present. Air bladder simple. Pyloric ap- 

 pendages 5. Branchiostegals 6 or 7. Scales 55 to 80 in a lateral 

 series, finely ctenoid. Dorsals usually more or less scaly. Dorsal 

 spines 9 to 11, slender, rays 13 to 17, fins continuous or anterior part 



