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Scales 54 to 57 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter ; 

 9 scales above lateral line, 15 below, 20 predorsal to occiput and 7 

 more forward opposite front eye edge, 4 rows on cheek. Scales with 

 8 or 9 basal radiating striae ; apical denticles 55 to 70, with 11 or 12 

 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. X, 14, I, third spine 1% to 2 in total head length, first ray 3% 

 to 4%; A. Ill, 11, I, third spine 234 to Sfo, first ray 2% to Si/g; 

 caudal 3i^ to 3% in combined head and body to caudal base; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 314 to 3^^ ; pectoral 1 to 1% ; ventral 1% 

 to 2. 



Back brown, lower half of body whitish. Iris grayish. Indis- 

 tinct pale median lateral band from eye to caudal base, little above 

 its middle. Fins brown, lower paler. Caudal ends black. 



Muscat, India, East Indies, Philippines, Japan, Riu Kiu. 



32732 U.S.N.M. Indian Archipelago. Royal Museum Leiden. Length 153 mm. 



56130 U.S.N.M. Bacon. Bureau of Fisheries (4010). Length 133 mm. 



56209 U.S.N.M. Bacon. Bureau of Fisheries (3703). Length 133 mm. 



56224 U.S.N.M. Bacon. Bureau of Fisheries (3702). Length 140 mm. 



71841 U.S.N.M. Japan. Albatross Collection. Length 240 mm. 



71883 U.S.N.M. Japan. Albatross Collection. Length 240 mm. 



Two examples (with 75493 U.S.N.M.). Nafa. Okinawa, Riu Kiu. Albatross 



Collection, 1906. Length 236 to 240 mm. 

 84215 U.S.N.M. Cebu, Philippines. Dr. F. Baker. Lenth 205 mm. As Caesio 



coerulaureus. 



CAESIO CAERULAUREUS Lacepede 



Caesio caerulaureus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 85, 86. Mo- 

 luccas.— Cuvieb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 434 (Red Sea; Gonfod; 

 Trimquemale, Ceylon; Mauritius; Bourbon; Pondicherry). — Vai.enciennes, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 559 (note). — Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, 1849, p. 10.36 (Pinang).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol., 1859, p. 392 (copied). — Gijichenot, Notes He Reunion, vol. 2, 

 1862, p. 25.— Platfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 32 (Zanzibar).— 

 Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, 1874, p. (117)150 (China). — 

 Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 437 (Mauritius). — Fowleb, 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 528 (Padang). — 

 Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 266 (Apia).— 

 Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. S3 (Bacon, 

 Zamboanga, San Fabian). — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 2, Dec. 

 10, 1913, p. 92 (off Moretou Bay).— Regan, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 2, 1918, 

 p. 76 (Natal).— Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, June 18, 1918, p. 63 (Philippines) ; 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 278 (Zamboanga; Philippines) ; 

 Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 204 (Kingsmills, Shortland Island, 

 New Guinea, Apia) ; Proc. Acad Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 638 

 (Padang; Shortland Island). — Tirant, Service Oceanogr. Peches Indo 

 Chine, 6^ Note, 1929, p. 168. 



Caesio coerulaureus Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 65 (Java). — Kt.ttn- 

 ziNGER, Verb. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 770 (Koseir, Rod Sea).— 

 Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 8, 1S76-1S77, p. 39, pi. (69) 347, 

 fig. 4 (Sumatra, Nias, Singapore, Java, Bali, Celebes, Halmahera, Ternate, 

 Batjan, Burn, Ceram, Amboina, Banda). — Kt.xjnzinger, Fische Roth. 

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