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Diagramma lessonii Cuvieb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 313. Waigiu. — 

 Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., vol. 2, pt. 1, Nov. 32, 1831, p. 199, pi. 24 

 (OflEack Bay, Waigiu).— Guntheir, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 329 

 (Amboiua).^ — Schmetltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 3, 1866, p. 7 (Samoa). — 

 Platfaib, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 28 (Zanzibar; Aden). — GtJNTHEB, 

 Cruise of Curagoa, Brenchley, 1873, p. 409 (Solomon Islands) ; Journ. Mus. 

 Godeffroy, vols. 2-3, pts. 5-6, 1874, p. 28, pi. 23 (East Africa; East Indies; 

 Samoa). — Sciimeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 5, 1874, p. 23 (Samoa) ; No. 



7, 1879, p. 39 (Samoa). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 



8, 1883, p. 260 (Hood Bay, New Guinea).— Pohl, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, 



1884, p. 27 (Samoa). — Meybb, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 



1885, p. 14 (Macassar; Kordo, Mysore).— J atzow and Lenz, Abh. Sencken- 

 berg. Ges., vol. 21, 1899, p. 501 (Zanzibar). 



Diagramma lessoni Mabtens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 887 (Amboina). 

 PlectorhyncJivs lessoni Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, 



pi. (39) 317, fig. 3; vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 19 (Java, Ternate, Amboina, 



Waigiu ) . 

 Plectorhynchus lessoni Blb3ekee, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, 



pi. (27) 305, fig. 3. 

 Diagramma sebae Bleekek, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Sciaen.), vol. 23, 1850, 



p. 24. Batavia ; Banda, Neira. — Guntheb, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 



1859, p. 33 (copied). — Kneb, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 54 (Java). — 



Pellegbin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 39, 1914, p. 226 (Diego Suarez, 



Madagascar). 

 Plectarhynchus sehae Bleekek, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-76, pi. 



(27) 305, fig. 3. 

 Plectorhinchus sehae Fowleb, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 



12, 1904, p. 528 (Padang). 

 Diagramma vavad THioixii:BE, Fauna Woodlark, 1857, p. 158. Woodlark 



Island. 



Depth 2% to 31/8 ; head 2% to 32/5, width 1% to 3. Snout 2i^ 

 to 3l^ in head; eye 31/5 to 4%, greater than snout in young to 1 to 2 

 in snout with age, greater than interorbital in young to ll^ in inter- 

 orbital with age; maxillary reaches eye or to pupil, expansion 1% 

 to 2% in eye, length 21^ to 3% in head; lips broad, thick, fleshy, 

 coriaceous, especially with age; teeth in jaws fine, conic, in bands 

 of about 5 irregular series with outermost slightly enlarged; inter- 

 orbital 3 to 414, broadly convex; hind preopercle edge with small, 

 rough, obsolete denticles. Gill rakers 9 or 10 + 20 or 21, lanceolate, 

 short, 1/2 to % in gill filaments, which 11/^ to li/^ in eye. 



Scales 84 to 97 in lateral line to caudal base and 14 or 15 more on 

 latter; tubular scales 52 to 62 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 

 more on latter; 11 to 14 scales above lateral line, 18 to 20 below, 53 

 to 60 predorsal forward midway in snout length, 22 rows on cheek 

 to preopercle corner. Suprascapula entire. Scales with 6 nearly 

 parallel basal radiating striae ; apical denticles 66, short points, with 

 9 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. XII or XIII, 17, I to 20, i, third spine 21/5 to 23/5 in head, 

 first ray 31/3 to 41/2 ; A. Ill, 7, i, second spine 2xV to 23^4, second ray 

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