NO. 1875. TEE JAPANESE SPARIDJE— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 529 



1906, p. 261.— EvERMANN and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 26 (1906), 

 p. 78, 1907 (Bulan P. I.).— Jordan and Richardson, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish,| 

 vol. 27, 1908, p. 257 (Caiayan); Check List, P. I. Bur. Sci. Publ., No l' 

 Manila, 1910, p. 27. ' • > 



Anthias macrophthalmus Bloch, Ichthyologia, 1792, pi. 319 ("Japan"). 

 ?Priacanthus speculum Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, p. 471 

 1831 (Mahe). — Valenciennes, in Cuvier, Regne An. Illust. Poiss., 1836, pi. 

 11, fig. 1.— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 221 (after Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes).— Playfair, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 850.— Sauvage, 

 Poiss. Madag., 1891, p. 117, pi. 14, fig. 2 (Bourbon Island, Seychelles). 

 Priacanthus dubius Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1842, p. 19 (Naga- 

 saki.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 221 (after Temminck 

 and Schlegel). 

 Priacanthus japonicus Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., vol 2, 1851, p. 171 (Siboga, 



East Sumatra), (not of Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Priacanthus blochii Bleeker, Batavia, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., vol. 4,1853, p. 456 

 (Bata\da, Siboga) (part). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 218 

 (Moluccas, Amboyna). — Day, Fishes India, 1875, p. 48. 

 ?PriacanthusschlegeliB.iLGENDORF, Sitzungb. Ges. Nat. 'Freuude, 1879, p. 79, Tokyo. 

 Habitat. — Coasts of Asia, occasionally northward to Japan. 

 Description after Boulenger, as we have no Japanese specimens. 

 Head 3{ to 3^ in total length; depth 3 to 3^-; eye 2 J to 2^ in head 

 without mandible; snout one-half to two-thirds diameter of eye; 

 interorbital space 3^ to 4 in head; D. X, 14-15; A. Ill, 14-15; scales 

 above lateral line 100-120; in lateral line 75-80; in transverse series 

 9-11-38-46; gill-rakers 18 to 23 on lower limb of first arch. 



Spine at angle of preopercle short, indistinct in old specimens. 

 Dorsal spines gradually increasing in length to the last, whicJi is 1| 

 to 1| as long as second and one-half to three-fifths length of head; 

 longest soft rays not much longer than longest spine; spines feebly 

 spinulose in the young, merely striated in the adult; soft rays feebly 

 spinulose. Pectoral one-half to three-fifths length of head. Ventral 

 nearly as long as head, the spine three-fifths to two-tliirds its length. 

 Third anal spine as long as sixth or seventh (of the) dorsal; the spi- 

 nules on the spines disappearing in the adult. Caudal crescentic in 

 the adult; the lobes more or less produced. Scales spinulose. Red 

 above, silvery beneath, the fins usually blackish toward the edge. 

 Total length, 360 mm. 



Boulenger records specimens from Red Sea, Zanzibar, Seychelles, 

 Ceylon, Madras, Amboyna, and Japan. 



Our specimen from Caiayan, Philippine Islands, shows these meas- 

 urements: Head (including lower jaw) 3^ in body length; depth 2f 

 in body ; maxillary 2 in head ; snout 3 in head without mandible, or 

 seven-eighths diameter of eye; scales in lateral line 72, in series above 

 97, in transverse between insertions of dorsal and anal 11-41. The 

 difference in scales and in other regards may indicate a different 

 species than that of Boulenger. His measurements and counts have 

 a wide variation and it is quite possible that he includes more than 

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