468 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUEI. vol. 39, 



Aphareus furcatus Jordan and Seale, Fishes Samoa, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 

 25, 1905, p. 265 (Hawaii).— Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. 22, 1902, 

 p. 51 (Honolulu). 



Caranxomorus sacrestin ("Sacr6 chien") Lacepede, Poiss., vol. 5, 1801, p. 682 

 (lie de France). 



Aphareus ccerulescens Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, 

 p. 487, pi. 167 b. (Port Louis, lie de France). 



Aphareus rutilans Cuvier p- 1 Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, 

 p. 490 (Red Sea). — Bleeker, Act. Soc. Scient. Ind. Neerl., vol. 2, Achste 

 Bijd. Vischf. Amb., 1856, p. 52 (Amboyna); Atlas Ichth., 1877, pi. 299, 

 fig. 2 (Amboynaj.— RiJPPELL, Neue Wirbel., Fische, 1835, p. 121 (Red Sea).— 

 GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 386 (Red Sea, Amboyna). — 

 Klunzinger, Syn. Fish. Roth. Meer., Verh. Zool-bot Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 

 1870, p. 768 (Red Sea); Fische Rothen Meeres, pt. 1, 1884, p. 45 (Red Sea, in 

 deep water). — Sauvage, Poissons de Madagascar, 1891, p. 514 (Madagascar). — 

 Day, Fishes India, 1888, p. 782 (Ceylon). 



Aphareus Jlavivultus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. 19, 1901, p. 390, fig. 

 (Honolulu).— Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. 22, 1902, p. 451 (Kona, 

 Hawaii). — ^Jordan and Seale, Fishes Samoa, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25, 

 1905, p. 265 (Hawaii). — ^Jordan and Evermann, Fishes Hawaii, Bull. U. S. 

 Fish. Comm., vol. 23, 1903, pt. 1, p. 235, fig. (Honolulu, Kailua, and Hilo). — 

 Jordan and Dickerson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, 1908, p. 611 (Hono- 

 lulu). 



Habitat. — East coast of Africa, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, East Indies, 

 north to China, Japan, and Hawaii. 



Description. — Of a specimen 580 mm. in total length, from Odawara, 

 Sagami Bay, Japan. 



Head 3| in body length; depth S-f-; eye 5^ in head; maxillary If; 

 width of preorbitals 8^; snout 2|; D. X, 11; A. Ill, 8; scales in 

 lateral line 72, between dorsal and lateral line 9, between ventrals and 

 lateral line 18, between anal and lateral line 15; vertebrae 10+13 + 

 hypural = 24. Branchiostegals 7. 



Body fusiform and symmetrical, compressed, dorsal and ventral 

 profiles similar; lower jaw projecting, its tip square and at right 

 angles to cleft of mouth, which is somewhat oblique. Maxillary 

 ending below posterior half of eye. Preorbital somewhat turgid, 

 anteriorly produced slightly below edge of skin on snout. Nostrils 

 small, close together, one-third of length of snout from eye. Teeth 

 lackmg save for slight roughening anteriorly in j aws. Preopercle with 

 smooth margin, its angle produced somewhat posteriorly. 



Dorsal spines weak and flexible, third, fourth, and fifth longest, 2f 

 in head; last two-thirds length of fourth; first ray unbranched, but 

 articulated, equal in length to last spine; last ray produced, probably 

 2 or 3 times length of penultimate. Pectoral falcate, contained l^g- 

 times in head, reaching anus; its lower rays produced, its margin 

 therefore sharply incised ; ventrals contained If times in head, extend- 

 ing half way to front of anal. Anal spines weak, first very short, 

 second and third subequal, 5^ times in head ; anal ra3^s equal in length 

 to dorsal rays, last one produced similarly to that of dorsal; caudal 

 deeply forked. 



