46 Fishes of the South Pacific. 
Color in life, silvery; 5 broad yellow longitudinal lines below 
the lateral line, and 5 narrow yellow lines above it; a bright silvery 
mark in posterior axis of dorsal fin; base of pectoral and the axis 
dusky; naked part of head brown; dorsal pinkish white, the mar- 
gin brighter red; anal, caudal and pectorals pinkish; ventrals 
white. 
One specimen from Tubuai Id., No. 735 B. M., length 8.50 in. 
Five specimens from Mangareva Id.: No. 825 B. M., length 5.75 
in.; No. 826 B.M., length 5.50 in.; No. 827 B. M.; lenethe 5375 que 
No. 805 B.'M., length 5.50 in:7 No..813°8. M., lengthoum 
Pentapus vittatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
Four specimens, Nos. 1110, 1161, 1165, 1175 Bo Mie arom 
Shortland Id., Solomons. 
Color in life, pale grayish, with a white line on each side of 
dorsal; a white line below the lateral line; a blue line over fore- 
head in front of eyes; fins white. 
FAMILY SPARIDAS. 
Monotaxis grandoculis (Forskal). 
Depth 2.30; head 3; eye 3; D. x, 10; A. 111, 9; scales 6-50-14; 
interorbital 3.10; snout 2.10. 
Body oblong compressed, scaled; depth of caudal peduncle 
1.50 in its length; head compressed, rather blunt, very convex 
above the anterior margin of eyes; snout straight, its angle about 
45; mouth protractile; maxillary hidden; mandible 2.10 in head. 
Teeth: small conical canines in anterior of jaws, a single row of 
molars in sides of jaws; gill-rakers short and blunt, 7 on lower 
limb; opercles scaled, without spines or serrations; preopercle 
scaled and with fine serrations on the posterior part. The dorsal 
is received into a groove; the attachment of the membrane alter- 
nates from right to left side of spines: the fifth spine 2.10 in head, 
3 in base of fin; the 6-7 dorsal rays the longest, 1.80 in head; base 
of anal 2.20 in base of dorsal, its longest ray 2.15 in head; the 
third anal spine is the longest, 2.30 in head; pectorals reaching to 
above anal fin, their length 1.40 in head; base of dorsal equal to 
head; caudal deeply emarginate, the middle ray 2.75 in outer ray. 
Color, silvery, with three white bands over the back, the first 
on the nuchal region down the opercles and preopercles; the sec- 
ond below the basis of the 1-4 dorsal spines and sloping obliquely 
back; the third between the ninth spine and first ray, extending 
vertically down towards origin of anal; a black spot in axis of pec- 
torals; a black splotch on upper part of eye; the modified scales 
on the nuchal region tinted with dusky; dorsal pinkish white, with 
a dusky margin and a dusky blotch on webs, and at base of an- 
terior 5 rays of dorsal; the posterior portion of the soft dorsal and 
