456 SPARIDJi. 



a. Adult: skin. Copang. 



b, c. Adult : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago. Presented by the 



Lords of the Admiralty. 

 d. Adult : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago. Voyage of the Rattle- 

 snake. 



4. Lethrinus nematacanthus. 



Sleeker, Japan, p. 403, and Verhand. Batav. Genootsch, xxvi. Japan, 

 p. 91. tab. 6. 



D.^. A.|. L. lat. 48. 



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

 length of the head 4 to 3| ; the snout is slightly elongate and pointed ; 

 the diameter of the eye is 1 1 in the length of the snout. The upper 

 maxillary bone reaches to or nearly to the vertical fi'om the anterior 

 margin of the eye. Canine teeth moderate; the lateral teeth co- 

 nical, the posterior ones more obtuse and rather rounded*. Dorsal 

 spines slender ; the second is the longest, flexible, longer than the 

 longest ray, and than one-half of the length of the head. Caudalis 

 slightly emarginate. Olive, shining golden, with four or five orange- 

 coloured longitudinal bands ; head and body Anth indistinct and irre- 

 gular brownish spots ; a blackish blotch between the pectoral and 

 the lateral line ; s2)ines and rays of all the fins (except of the pec- 

 torals) with brownish spots. 



Sea of Japan ; Louisiade Archipelago. 



a, 8" long ; filament 1" long : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago. Pre- 

 sented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



h. 6" long ; filament indistinct : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago (30 

 fathoms). Voyage of the Rattlesnake. 



5. Lethrinus richardsonii. 



Lethrinus i hsematopterus, Richardson, Zool. Sulph. Fishes, p. 144. 

 pi. 64. f. 1-3 ; Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxvi. Japan, p, 91 

 (not Schleg.). 



D. |. A. |. L. lat. 48. L. transv. 5/17. 



The height of the body is 3-3^ in the total length, the length of 

 the head 3|. The snout is slightly elongate and pointed; the dia- 

 meter of the eye is rather more than the width between the orbits, 

 and l|-lf in the length of the snout. The upper maxillary reaches 

 to the vertical fi-om the anterior nostril. Canine teeth rather small ; 

 all the teeth of the lateral series conical, none molar-like. Dorsal 

 and anal spines rather stout f ; the fourth and fifth longest, but 

 distinctly shorter than the rays, and about 2| in the length of the 

 head. Caudalis emarginate. Brownish olive (in spirits), indistinctly 



* Tliis does not agree with the figure, which exliibits all the lateral teoth 

 conical, pointed, and small. 



t Tlie figure quoted represents them too slender. 



