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in head; teeth in villiform bands in jaws, outer row largest; inter- 

 orbital moderately convex; preopercle serrated. Scales 66 along 

 above lateral line, 54 along below lateral line; tubular scales 55 in 

 lateral line; 9 scales above lateral line, 15 below (figure shows 10 to 

 anal origin) ; predorsal scales forward to nostrils. D. XII, 15, third 

 spine 2 in head, first ray 3; A. Ill, 12, second spine 24^, first ray 

 2%; caudal li/4, deeply emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 2^ ; pectoral ll^ ; ventral 1%. Olive gray, head glossed with purple. 

 Large black blotch, bordered yellow in front at upper angle of 

 opercle. Eyes golden. Pectoral yellow. Ventral yellow over basal 

 half, terminally black with white edge. Other fins stained blackish 

 with fine deep brown dots. Reaches 305 mm. (Day.) 

 Arabia, Madagascar, India. 



Subgenus Pomadasys Lacepede 



Body with dark spots and when small some times as transverse 

 series or as longitudinal rows. 



POMADASYS INCISUS (Bowdich) 



Anomalodon incisus Bowdich, Excurs. Madeira, 1825, p. 237, fig. 51. Gambia. 



West Africa. 

 Pristipoma rogcrii Cuvieb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 254. Senegal. — 



GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 298 (copied). 

 Pristipoma ronchus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Canaries, Poiss., vol. 2, pt. 2, 



1836-1844, p. 25, pi. 7, fig. 2. Canaries. 

 Pristipoma hennettii Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 2, pt. 2, 1837 (1841), 



p. 176. Madeira. — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 



6, 1908-1911, p. 151 (off Tegula River, Natal). 

 Pomadasys hennettii Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 



4, 1917, p. 353 (references). 

 Pomadasis hennettii Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 56, 1919, p. 257 



(Elmina, Ashantee) ; p. 283 (Loando, Angola). 

 Pomadasis bennetti Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 230 



(Tegula River, in 60 fathoms). 

 Pomadasys bennetti Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, Oct. 1927, 



p. 677, pi. 28, fig. 2 (False Bay, Agulhas Bank, Natal, Zululand). 

 Dacymha bennetti Jordan and Hubbs, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, Nos. 3-4. 



1917, p. 465, pi. 47, text fig. 1 (Port Said). 

 Cantharus elongatus Castelnau, M^ra. Poiss. Afrique Australe, 1861. p. 32. 



Cape of Good Hope. 

 Haemulon macrophthalmum Osorio, Jorn. Soc. Sci. Math. Acad. Lisboa, vol. 3, 



ser. 3, Feb. 1894, p. 174. St. Thomas Island; Rolas Island, West Africa. 



Depth 22/3 to 23/4; head 2% to 2%, width 214. Snout 3i/6 to 

 3% in head; eye 3 to 3%, subequal or greater than snout, greater 

 than interorbital ; maxillary reaches front nostril, length 3% to 3% 

 in head; bands of villiform teeth in jaws; interorbital 3% to 414, 

 slightly convex; preopercle edge denticulate. Gill rakers 8 + 15, of 



