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Pled or Jiyn elms cJiaetodontoides Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 8, 



1876-1877, p. 17 (Singapore, Java, Celebes, Temate, Amboina, Haruko). 

 Plectorhinchus chaetodontoldes Fowleb and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



62, 1922, p. 34 (Cebu). 

 Lutjanus chaetodonoides Lac^p^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 195, 243. 



No locality (collection Mus§um d'histoire naturelle). 

 Diagramma chaetodonoides Gunthee, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 326 



(copied). 

 Diagramma chaetodontoides Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espaii. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 



14, 1885, p. 14 (Cebu). 

 Chaetodon plectorhinchus Shaw, General Zool., vol. 4, 1803, p. 356, pi. 49. No 



locality. 

 Diagramma plectorhynchus Cxjvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 294 (type). 

 Diagramma pardalis (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 



5, 1830, p. 300. Java.— GttNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 323 



(no locality). — Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876 p. 386 (Singapore). — 



Metteb, Anal. Soc. Espaii. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 14 (Manado, 



Celebes).— DuNCKEE, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, 1903 (1904), 



p. 149 (Singapore). 

 Diagramma pardale Kaboli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 153 



(Singapore). 

 Diagramma montrouzieri Thiolli£:ee, Fauna Woodlark, 1857, p. 156. Woodlark 



Island. 

 Diagramma punctatissimum Playeaie, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 851, 



pi. 40. Seychelles. — Gunthek, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vols. 2-3, pts. 5-6, 



1874, p. 27, pi. 21 (Society Islands). 

 Diagramma papuense Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc, New South Wales, vol. 7, 



1882, p. 237. New Guinea. 

 Plectorhynchus doanei Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4, No. 6, Nov. 1909, 



p. 51. Sitanki Island, Jolo Archipelago ; Cagayan, Mindanao. 



Depth 21/4 to 21/2 ; head 21/2 to 31/5, width 2 to 2iV- Snout 21/3 to 

 2% in head from snout tip ; eye 314 to 5I/4, I14 to 2% in snout, greater 

 than interorbital in young, 1 to I14 with age; maxillary not reaching 

 front eye edge to 1/3 in eye, expansion IV5 to 214 in eye, length 2% 

 to 314 in head from snout tip; teeth conic, simple, largely uniform 

 in 4 irregular rows in jaws, outer row little enlarged; interorbital 

 334 to 4%, broadly convex; preopercle edge with about 30 to 44 

 denticles. Gill rakers 10+26, lanceolate, li/4 in gill filaments, which 

 1% in eye. 



Scales 65 to 70 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 to 12 more on 

 latter ; tubular scales 52 to 59 in lateral line to caudal base and 9 or 

 10 more on latter; 14 or 15 scales above lateral line, 19 to 21 below, 

 48 to 50 predorsal forward midway in snout length; 23 rows on 

 cheek. Suprascapula serrate. Scales with 6 basal radiating striae; 

 apical denticles 31 to 57, slender, with 5 to 8 transverse series of 

 basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. XII, 18, I, or 19, I, fourth spine 1% to 4 in total head length, 

 eighth ray II/5 to 2/% ; A. Ill, 8, i, second spine 11/2 to 3, third ray 

 ly^ to 214; caudal 1 to 1%, convex behind in young to slightly 



