454 SPAKID^. 



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

 conical and molar-like, or obtuse molars. Formula of the fins : D. y. 

 A. I". 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 all 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. 



Lethrinus rostratus, {Kuhl8fvan Ilass.) Cuv. Sf Vol. vi. p. 296; Sleek. 

 Verh. Batav, Genoolsch. xxiii. Spar, p. 13, 



D. J. A. I-. L. lat. 50. L. transv. 6/16. 



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

 of the head 3i. The snout very 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-hke. Dorsal 

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

 3| in the length of the head ; the third anal spine intermt-diate between 

 the second spine and the fu-st ray. Caudalis emaiginate. Olive (in 



10. Lethrinus sordidus, Cuv. Sf Val. vi. p. 298. — New Guinea. 



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



12. azureuB, C'liv. 4~ Val. vi. p. ;300. — New Ireland. 



13. casrulHus, Cuv. Sf Val. vi. p. 301. — Seychelles. 



14. croceopterus, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 302.— Seychelles. 



15. argenteus, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 303. — Seycl^elles. 



16. borbonicus, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 303. — Isle dc Franco. 



17. genigutta,tus, Cuv. ^- Val. vi. p. 304. — East Indies. 



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



19. Sparus chaerorhynchus, Bl. Schn. p. 278. — Lethrinus chserorhynchus, 



Cuv. # Val. vi. p. 308.— Japan? 



20. Lethrinus virescens, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 308. — Habitat ? 



21. BUfSsell, pi. 89. — Lethrinus karwa, Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 311. — East Indies. 



22. Lethrinus abbreviatus, {Ehrenb.) Cuv. Sf Val. vi. p. 312. — Red Sea. 



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



24. erythracanthus, Cuv. Sf Val. vi. p. 314. — Luganor. 



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



26. xanthopt€rus, Cuv. ^" Val. vi. p. 315. — Ulea. 



27. SparuB miniatus, (Forsi.) Bl. Schn. p. 281. — Letlirinus miniatuB, Cuv. ^ 



Val. vi. p. 315. — Pacific. 



28. Lethrinus anatarius, Richardson, Ichtkyol. Voy. Sulph. p. 145. — Chinese 



Sea. 



29. cyanoxanthus, Richards. Ic. pi. 4. f. I. — Australia. 



30. einnabai'inue, Richards. Ic. pi. 4. f. 2. — Austraha. 



