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addition of canines; lateral teeth in a single series— conical, or 

 conical and molar-like, or obtnse molars. Formula of the fins : D. ^. 

 A. Y- Scales of moderate size. L. lat. 45-50. Six branchiostegals. 

 Two or three short pyloric appendages ; air-bladder generally notched 

 posteriorly, and with short lateral appendages. 



From the Eastern shores of Africa through aU the East Indian 

 and Australian Seas to Polynesia ; and one species on the Western 

 coast of Africa. 



I. Species with all the lateral teeth more or less conical, without true 

 molars. 



A. With a blackish blotch above the pectoral fin. 

 1. Lethrinus rostratus. 



Letlirinua rostratus, (Kuhl ^ van Hass.) Cuv. 8f Val. vi. p. 29G ; Sleek. 

 Verh. liatav. Genuotsch. xxiii. Sjxir. p. 13. 



D. ^. A. |. L. lat. 50. L. transv. 6/16. 



The height of the body is four times in the total length, the length 

 of the head 31. The snout veiy elongate and pointed. The length 

 of the diameter of the eyes is more than the width of the distance 

 between them, and 2| in the length of the snout ; the upper maxillary 

 does not reach to the vertical from the anterior nostril. Canine teeth 

 moderate ; the teeth of the lateral series slightly compressed, pointed ; 

 the hindmost only of the upper jaw blunt and molar-like. Dorsal 

 spines moderate ; the third rather shorter than the longest ray, and 

 3 1 in the length of the head ; the third anal spine intermediate between 

 the second spine and the first ray. Caudalis emarginate. OUve (in 



10. Lethrinus sordidus, Cuv. ^ Veil. vi. p. 298. — New Guinea. 



11. flavescens, Guv. ^- Val. vi. p. 299. — Tongatabu. 



12. azureus, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 300. — Now Ireland. 



13. CKi'ideus, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 301. — Seychelles. 



14. croceopterus, Cuv. S[ Val. vi. p. 302. — Seychelles. 



15. argenteus, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 303. — Seychelles. 



16. borbonicus, Cuv. S( Val. vi. p. 303. — Isle de France. 



17. geniguttatus, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 301. — East Indies. 



18. genivittatus, Cuv. # Val. vi. p. 306. pi. 159.— Habitat ? 



19. Sparus chterorhynchus, Bl. Schn. p. 278. — Lethrinus chterorhynchus, 



Cuv. # Val. vi. p. 308.— Japan? 



20. Lethrinus virescens, C%a\ <f Val. vi. p. 308. — Habitat ? 



21. Ihisscll, pi. 89. — Letlu'inus karwa, Cuv. cf Val. vi. p. 311. — East Indies. 



22. Lethrinus abbreviatus, (Ehrenb.) Cuv. if- Val. vi. p. 312. — Red Sea. 



23. erytliropterus, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 313. — Ulea. 



24. erytbracanthus, Cuv. cf- Val. vi. p. 314. — Luganor. 



25. — — • alboguttatus, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 314. — Bonin. 



26. xanthopterus, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 315.— Ulea. 



27. Sparus miniatus, (Forst.) Bl. Schn. p. 281. — Lethrinus miniatus, Cicv. ^ 



Val. vi. p. 315. — Pacific. 



28. Letln-inus anatarius, Richardso7i, Ichthyol. Voy. Sulph. p. 145. — Chinese 



Sea. 



29. — cyanoxanthus, liichards. Ic. pi. 4. f. 1.— Australia. 

 30. cinnabarinus, Eichards. Ic. pi. 4. f. 2. — Australia. 



