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bases of lower median caudal rays ; median from above eye to upper 

 ^dge of caudal peduncle. Iris white. 



China, Formosa, Japan. Tliere is no question but Plectorhynchns 

 ocyv/rus Jordan and Evermann is a synonym of the present species. 

 It is based on an old example 318 mm. long. In their key to the 

 Japanese genera Jordan and Thompson have transposed the formula 

 for the gill rakers for Parajmstipoma and Plectorliynclms^ so they 

 should really read the opposite. 



6S09. Kowloou market, Chiua. September 19, 1909. Length 310? mm. 



22545 U.S.N.M. Japan. Japanese Government. Length 280 mm. 



59731 U.S.N.M. Urado, Japan. Dr. H. M. Smith. Length 267 mm. 



71180 U.S.N.M. Misaki. Albatross Collection. Length 123 to 130 mm. 2 



examples. 

 71301 U.S.N.M. Misaki. Albatross Collection. Length 125 to 187 ram. 3 



examples. 

 71350 U.S.N.M. Misaki. Albatross Collection 1906. Length 200 to 224 mm. 2 



examples. 



75470 U.S.N.M. Wakanoura. Jordan and Snyder. Length 45 to 155 mm. 4 

 examples. 



75471 U.S.N.M. Tokyo. Jordan and Snyder. Length 128 to 185 mm. 4 

 examples. 



75472 U.S.N.M. Enoshima. Jordan and Snyder. Length 130 mm. 



Genus PLECTORHINCHUS Lacepede 



Plectorhinchus LAcfipfeoE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, p. 134. Type Plector- 



hinchus chaetodonoides LAc:fepiDE, monotypic. 

 Plectorhincus DuMfiRiL, Zool. Analyt, 1806, p. (126) 340. Type Plectorhinchus 



chaetodonoides LAcfiptoE. 

 Plectorhynchus Cuvieb, R&gne Animal, vol. 2, 1817, p. 344. Type Plectorhinchus 



chaetodonoides LiActptuK. 

 Oaterin Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, p. (12) 45. Type Sciaena gaterina 



FoRSK.Ix. assumed tautotype through vernacular. (Inadmissible.) 

 Diagramma Oken, Isis, 1817, p. 782. Tj^pe Anthias diagrammn Bloch, mono- 

 typic. (On the Diagrammes Cuvieb, R^gne Animal, vol. 2, 1817, p. 280.) 

 Pseudopristipoma Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 4, 1880, p. 220. 



Type Pristipoma leiicurum Valenciennes, monotypic. 

 Euelatichthys 'Fowiser, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12. 1904. 



p. 527. Type Diagramma a-ffine Gunthek, orthotypic. 

 SpilotichtJiys Fowleb, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, 



p. 528. Type Holocentnis radjabau Laci6pI:de, orthotypic. 



Body compressed, oblong. Head strongly obtuse, upper profile 

 well conve.x. Eye moderate. Mouth small, horizontal, upper jaw 

 protractile. Maxillary slips below preorbital. Lips fleshy. Jaws 

 with bands of villiform teeth, pointed, in about 4 to 6 rows. Chin 

 with pores, without central groove or barbels. Preopercle serrate. 

 Suborbitals without spines or serrae. No opercular spine. Branch- 

 iostegals 6 or 7. Pseudobranchiae large. Air bladder simple. 

 Vertebrae 26 or 27, of which 15 or 16 caudal. Scales small or mod- 



