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e^. Interorbital area flat, separated by a transverse line of demarcation from 

 the occipital, by which the median as well as the lateral crests are lim- 

 ited; frontals wide in front; tongue and pterygoids toothless; soft dor- 

 sal and anal scaleless (in Asiatic species); top of head naked; soft dorsal 

 with 11 or 12 rays. 



^'. Aprionin^. Dorsal fin continuous; last ray of dorsal and anal 

 more or less filamentous; jaws and front of head naked. 

 i^. Jaws with well-develoi)cd teeth; teeth on vomer and palatines. 

 j^. Pectoral fin long, falcate; body not fusiform, more or less com- 

 pressed Pristipomoides, 5. 



/t*. ExELiNiE. Dorsal fin deeply notched. 



k^. Cranium not cavernous; dorsal and anal naked; maxillary 

 scaly; opercle without spine; caudal deeply and, in the 



adult, unequally forked Etelis, 6, 



c^. Vomer and palatines without teeth. 



l^. Apharein^. Pectoral fin falcate, its lower rays also pro- 

 longed in the adult; dorsal and anal scaleless, the last 

 rays produced; jaws with very small teeth which disap- 

 pear with age; jaws heavy, the lovv'er projecting. 



Aphareus, 7. 



2. Genus GLAUCOSOMA Temminck and Schlegel. 



Glaucosoma Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1843, p. 62. 



Body robust^ compressed, covered with rather small, weakly ctenoid 

 scales; lateral line nearly straight, extending on the caudal fin; head 

 large, almost everywhere scaly ; maxillary and mandible scaly ; mouth 

 large, the lower jaw projecting; maxillary very broad, with a narrow, 

 supplemental bone, hardly slipping under preorbital; teeth in narrow 

 bands, some of them canine-like; teeth on vomer and tongue, appar- 

 ently none on palatines; preopercle with blunt teeth at the angle; gill 

 rakers long and slender. Dorsal fin small, of 8 graduated spines and 

 12 soft rays, much higher than spines; bases of dorsal and anal 

 scaly; anal with three short graduated spines; caudal lunate, with 

 blunt lobes; pectoral short, blunt; ventrals inserted below them. 



Large fishes of the Pacific, of doubtful relationship. They should 

 probably be referred to the Serranidse rather than to the LutianidiE. 



(uXauK^C, sea-blue; od)fxa, body.) 



2. GLAUCOSOMA BURGERI Richardson. 



Glaucosoma Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1843, p. 62, pi. 67 (Naga- 

 saki). 



Glaucosoma burgeri Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Fishes, 1846, p. 27 

 (after Temminck and Schlegel).— Gunther, Cat. Fish Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, 

 p. 211 (in part only, description from G. hebraicuvi). — Jordan and Evermann, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 1903, p. 342, fig. 15 (Keerun, Formosa).— 

 Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, 1910, no. 4, p. 185, 

 fig. 13 (Takao, Formosa). 



Habitat. — Formosa and southern Japan. 



Description. — Of a specimen 17 inches long from Keerun, Formosa, 

 after Jordan and Evermann. 



