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slight scarlet shades; paired fins not spotted, with scarlet axillary bar on 

 ventral ; all of pectoral axil scarlet, with % bar across soft portion outside ; 

 dash of scarlet about exposed portion of gill opening and opercular mem- 

 brane ; some about maxillary membranes ; upper lip buff yellow, lower with 

 scarcely yellowish shades ; orbit dashed with scarlet below, iris slightly 

 above, otherwise yellow in extension of crossbar of forehead ; dusky bars 

 show more or less to level of base of ventral. 



A1138. Kayoa Island. November 29, 1909. Length 288 mm. 



52480 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 427 mm. 



25137 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. Length 378 

 mm. When fresh in arrack largely faded yellow. Nine blackish-brown longi- 

 tudinal bands on sides and above much wider than pale interspaces, below 

 much narrower. Edges of dorsal and caudal black and both fins like anal 

 marked with large blackish-brown spots ; on spinous dorsal form series along 

 basal portion of fin ; on soft dorsal series of about 10, which become median 

 posteriorly ; on anal arranged in several irregular series and about 10 ; soft 

 anal tip black. On caudal number of black spots form 3 irregular series. Pec- 

 toral yellowish, uniform, wuth oblique blackish-brown basal cross bar; axil 

 dusky. Ventral uniform yellowish, inside basally deep orange red. As 

 Plectorhinchus sebae. 



PLECTORHINCHUS RADJA (Bleeker) 



Diagramma radja Bleekee, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 5, 1853, p. 336. 



Amboina. — Gijnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 331 (copied). 

 PJectorliynclius radja Bleekek, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, 



pi. (14) 292, fig. 1; vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 20 (Celebes, Halmahera, Ternate, 



Bouro, Amboina, Goram). 

 Flectorhinchtis radja Fowlek, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 206 (copied). 



Depth 3 ; head 8^3, width 2. Snout 3 in head; eye 4, V/^ in snout, 

 greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches y^ in eye, expansion 

 1% in eye, length 3i\y in head; interorbital little convex; hind pre- 

 opercle edge denticulate. Scales 100 along above lateral line, 80 

 along below lateral line; 13 or 14 scales transversely above lateral 

 line, 38 below to ventrals. D. XII or XIII, 18 or 19 (figure show.s 

 XIV, 17), third spine 2y^ in head, first ray 2%; A. Ill, 7 or 8, sec- 

 ond spine 134, second ray 1^^; caudal 1%, little convex behind; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2^% ; pectoral li^ ; ventral II/5. Back 

 yellowish, below whitish. Six to eight black longitudinal bands, 

 fourth from eye waved and broken. Dorsals with black margin 

 and single row of black blotches. Caudal with 4 or 5 oblique black 

 bars on each lobe. Anal with 4 black horizontal bands. Black 

 spot at pectoral base, paired fins otherwise immaculate. Length 190 

 mm. (Bleeker.) 



East Indies. 



PLECTORHINCHUS GOLDMANNI (Bleeker) 



Diagramma goldmanni Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 4. 1853, 

 p. 602. Ternate.— GiJNTHEB, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 331 

 (copied).— Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7. 1882, p. 237 



