456 SPARID^. 



a. Adult : skin. Copang. 



h, c. Adult : stuffed. Lmiisiade Archipelago. Presented by the 



Lords of the Admiralty. 

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



snake. 



4. Lethrinus nematacanthus. 



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

 p. 91. tab. 0. 



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| in the Iciigth of the snout. The upper 

 maxillary bone reaches to or nearly to the A'ertical from the anterior 

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

 nical, the posterior ones more obtuse and rather rounded*. Doi'sal 

 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 A\-ith indistinct and iiTC- 

 gular brownish spots ; a blackish blotch between the jicctoral and 

 the lateral line ; spines 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. Loiiisiadc 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 hasmatopterus, Richardson, Zool. SulpJt. Fislics, p. 144. 

 pi. G4. f. 1-3 ; Blcek. Verhand. liatav. Genootsch. xxvi. Japan, p. Ul 

 (not Schley.), 



D. 'j. 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 sUghtly elongate and pointed; the dia- 

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

 and 1|-1-| in the length of the snout. The upper maxiUaiy reaches 

 to the vertical from the anterior nostril. Canine teeth rather small ; 

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

 and anal spines rather stoutf; 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 



* Tln8 does not agi-ee with the figure, wliidi exhibits all the lateral t^etli 

 conical, pointed, and small. 



t The figiu-e quoted represents them too flcnder. 



