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ss. Cheeks scaleless or nearly so; operdes 
soaleless; anterior profile of head more 
or less convex. 
t. First two dorsal spines detached from the 
others, forming a separate tin on the 
occipnt; anterior profile trenchant, its 
curve parabolic; no scales on head. 
Inmtms, 24. 
6. CHCEROPS Ruppell. 
Chcerops RtJppELL, Verz. Mus. Senckenberg Fische, 1852, p. 20 {meleagrh = 
macrodon). 
Choirodon Bleeker, Beitr. Gen. Topogr. Bat., about 1856, p. 513 {macrodon), name 
preoccupied. 
CossypJiodfft Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. Labr., XX, about 1861, p. 10 (macrodon). 
Hypsigenys Gunther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1861, VIII, p. 383 {macrodon). 
Body compressed, oblong, covered with large scales; about 80 in 
the lateral line; snout obtuse; cheeks high, with ver}^ small scales 
which are generally not imbricate; operculum scaly; preopercle 
slightl}^ serrate; forehead developing a fatty hump with age. Each 
jaw anteriorly with four strong canine teeth, the lateral teeth being 
more or less confluent into an obtuse osseous ridge; posterior canine 
present, at least in the adult. Dorsal rays XIII, T; anal III, 9; soft 
fins not elevated; caudal subtruncate. Lateral line not interrupted. 
Large fishes of the western Pacific, not crossing to Hawaii or to 
America. 
(xoipos, hog; GJ'/', appearance.) 
a. Scales about 24; body red, with blue spots on the scales and a broad ol)lique 
band of pink on the sides anteriorly azurio, 12. 
aa. Scales about 30; body with about 4 dark cross bands; a white band on back of 
caudal peduncle anchorago, 13. 
12. CHCEROPS AZURIO Jordan and Snyder. 
KANDAI (WINTER PERCH). 
Lahruii japonicm Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss., XIII, 1837, p. 99; Japan. 
Coll. Langsdorff. — Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p. 163, pi. lxxxv; 
Nagasaki (not Labrus japonicus Houttuyn). 
Cossyphvs japonicus Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. Japan, 1852, pp. 16 and 114; 
Nagasaki. 
Cho'rops japonicus GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish., IV, 1862, p. 96; China. — Steindachner, 
Fishe Japans., I\ , 1887, p. 20; Tokyo, Nagasaki. — Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 
1893, p. 30; Misaki, Kagoshima, Ogosahara (Bonin Islands). — Jordan and 
Snyder, Check List, 1901, p. 86; Yokohama. 
Chcerops o^wr/o Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1901, p. 747, after 
Schlegel, substitute for japonicus preoccupied. — Jordan and Snyder, Fishes 
of Formosa MS. ; Formosa. 
Head 3|in length; depth 3; depth of caudal peduncle 7; eye 4| in 
head; interorbital space 3; snout 2|; D. XIII, 7; A. Ill, 10; scales in 
