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highest. Anal spines 3, rays 11 to 14. All spines feeble. Caudal 

 deeply forked. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



o*. Paeacaesio. Dorsal rays 10, anal rays 8; coloration largely uniform. 



xanthurus. 

 o^ Dorsal rays 12 to 15, anal rays 11 or 12. 



&\ Caesio. Jaws without an external row of denticles. 



c\ Scales large, 53 to 57 in lateral line lunaris. 



&. Scales smaller, 60 to 65 in lateral line; body usually without bands 

 or spots. 

 <Z\ Caudal uniformly pale ; black spot at pectoral origin. 



&. Preorbital width more than half of eye; spinous dorsal naked. 



axillaris. 

 e^ Preorbital width 14 or less of eye ; spinous dorsal finely scaled 



basally xanthonotus. 



dl Caudal with black tips to each lobe. 



f. No median lateral golden band pisang. 



f. Median lateral golden band, also another narrower along back 



above chrysozonus- 



(Z^ Caudal with black longitudinal band in each lobe caerulaureus. 



&. Scales very small, 70 to 80 in lateral line; dark lateral band from eye 

 to upper median caudal rays and another along back and parallel; 



ends of caudal lobes dusky digramma. 



6'. Odontonectes. Jaws with external row of denticles; body without spots 

 or bands cuning. 



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Subgenus Paracaesio Bleeker 

 Dorsal rays 10. anal rays 8. Coloration largely uniform. 



CAESIO XANTHURUS Bleeker 



Caesio xanthurus Bleekek, Versl. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, vol. 3, 

 1869, p. 78. Nossibe, Madagascar ; Rech. Faune Madagascar, Pollen et 

 Van Dam, pt. 4, 1874, p. 37, pi. 11 (Nossibe). 



Paracaesio xanthurus Klunzinger, Fische Roth, Meer., 1884, p. 17. 



Paracaesio hcdleyi McCulloch and Waite, Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. South Aus- 

 tralia, vol. 40, 1916, p. 440, pi. 42. Lord Howe Island. 



Depth 2y%; head 3%. Snout 4% in head from snout tip; eye 3%? 

 greater than snout; maxillary reaches y^ in eye, expansion 1% in 

 eye, length 2% in head from snout tip; teeth fine, in bands in jaws; 

 also small patch on vomer and each palatine; interorbital little less 

 to subequal with eye, convex; preopercle edge finely denticulate. 



Scales 70 to 72 in lateral line; 8 above, 16 below, predorsal extend 

 forward opposite front of eye, 8 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. 



D. X, 10 or 11, third spine If^ in total head length, first ray 2% ; 

 A. Ill, 8 or 9, third spine 2%, first ray 2%; caudal 3 in combined 

 head and body to caudal base, deeply forked ; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2% in total head length; pectoral 1; ventral 1%. 



