NO. 1875. THE JAPANESE SPARIDJE— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 647 



f Diagramma hlochii Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, 

 p. 312(Trincomalee). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 329 

 (after Cantor), (East Indies). 



Plectorhynchus blochii Cantor, Cat. Malay. Fish, 1850, p. 77 (Pinang). 



Diagramma poscilopterum Cta'ier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 

 1830, p. 314, (Pondicherry). — TEMMiNCKand Schegel, Fauna Japonica, 1842, 

 p. 62 (Nagasaki). — Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p.' 227 (Can- 

 ton). — GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 1859, vol. 1, p. 329. 



Plectorhynchus poecilopterus J orb An and Snyder, Check List, Ann. Zool. Jap., 

 vol. 3, pts. 2 and 3, 1901, p. 78. — Jordan and Evermann, Proc, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 1903, p. 349 (Keerun and Giran, Formosa). 



Diagramma ocellatum (KmIA and Van Hasselt) Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 303 (Java). 



Diagramma balteatum (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 316 (Java). 



Plectorhynchtis balteatus Cantor, Cat. Malay. Fish, 1850, p. 78 (Singapore). 



Diagramma centurio CvviEU and YA1.ENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, 

 p. 308 (Seychelles). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 322 

 (after Cu^der and Valenciennes). — Playfair, Fish. Zanzibar, p. 127 (ac- 

 cording to Bleeker). 



Diagramma thunbergii Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, 

 p. 308 (locality uncertain). — Bleeker, Nieuwe Nalez. Verh. Bat. Gen., vol. 

 26, 1857, p. 18, No. 121 (after Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Hahitat. — Indian Ocean, Red wSea, Chinese and Japanese Seas. 



Described from a series, 21 in all, from Manila and Cavite, Philippine 

 Islands, from Formosa, and from Onomichi and Nagasaki, Japan; 

 ranging from 32 to 200 mm. in body length. 



Head 3 to 3| in body; depth 2h; eye 4 in head; maxillary 3; pre- 

 orbital mdth 4 to 4J; interorbital width 4; snout 2^; D. IX or X, 21 

 to 23; A. Ill, 6 or 7; scales above lateral line 110 to 122, below 84 to 

 95, between insertions of dorsal and anal 16 or 17/21 to 24; gill-rakers 

 7 + 11 or 12. 



Dorsal profile of body much more strongly arched than ventral; 

 greatest depth of body above pectoral fin, leaving space from snout 

 to first spine very convex with a longer slope to the caudal. Snout 

 low, its apex half the diameter of eye below latter's lower edge; inter- 

 orbital space convex from eye to eye; maxillary ending under anterior 

 border of eye; lips somewhat fleshy. Teeth in jaws villiform. Pre- 

 opercle finely serrate. Opercle with two points. Post-temporal very 

 finely serrate. Gill-rakers short, rather stout. 



Dorsal spines highest in second, which is 2 in head or 2 § in body 

 depth (in adult) ; last spine two-thirds of second, equal to first soft 

 ray. Dorsals not di^-ided. Last rays longest. If in head. Anal 

 spines of same strength as dorsal, second and third subequal, 2§ to 

 3 1 in head, first very short, 7 in second; anal rays 1^ times length of 

 spines. Caudal truncate or somewhat emarginate. Pectorals If in 

 head, ventrals 1^. 



