568 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.41.' 



Pristipomoides ihunbergi in place of P. sparus. The following is the 

 synonymy and the substance of the description: 



Labrus thunbergi Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1803, p. 467 (Nagasaki). 



Dentez thunbergii Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, 

 p. 237 (Japan). — ^Jordan and Snyder, Check List, Ann. Zool. Jap., vol.3, 

 pts. 2 and 3, 1901, p. 77 (after Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Synagris thunbergii Bleeker, Enum. Poiss., Verh. kon. Akad. Amst., vol. 18, 

 1879, p. 7. 



Body elongate, compressed, head equal to depth of body, which is 

 contained nearly four times in the total length. The body is covered 

 with finely ciliated scales. The teeth are very small, but there are 

 four very large ones on each jaw, curved, well removed from one 

 another, with smaller ones set in the intervals. Suborbital narrow 

 and elongate. Caudal forked, pectoral short. Color brown, with- 

 out spots. Edge of scales whitish. 



13. Genus GYMNOCRANIUS Klunzinger. 



Gymnocranius Klunzinger, Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien., vol. 20. 1870, p. 765 {rivulatus). 

 Paradentex Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vol. 8, 1876, p. 98 (on plate 30, fig. 3), 

 (microdon) . 



Type. — Gymnocranius rivulatus Riippell. 



This genus is allied to Dentex and Euthyopteroma, differing in 

 having the top of the head naked. Body deep, compressed. Mouth 

 small; both jaws with small canines; more than three rows of scales 

 on cheeks. Scales large, about 50; D. X, 10; A. Ill, 10. Species 

 few, of the East Indian region. 



(yu/ivoc, naked; Kpav'cov, skull.) 



22. GYMNOCRANIUS GRISEUS (Temminck and Schlegel). 

 GMEDAI (big-eyed porgy). 



Dentex griseus Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1843, p. 72, pi. 36 

 (Nagasaki). — Bleeker Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., vol. 7, 1854, p. 80 (Siboga), 

 (in part); Nieuwe Nalez. Verh. Bat. Gen., vol. 26, 1857, p. 88 (in part), (Na- 

 gasaki). — Steindachner and Doderlein, Beitr. Fische Japan 's, II, Denkschr. 

 Acad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 48, 1883, p. 16 (Tokyo). 



Gymnocranius griseus Bleeker, Enum. Poiss., Verh. kon. Akad. Amst., vol. 18 

 1879, p. 7, No. 115 (Nagasaki); (not of Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vol. 8, 1896, 

 p. 96). 



Dentex xanthopterus Bleeker, Arch. Ned. Ind., vol. 2, 1845, p. 522 (name only). 



Dentex lethrinoides Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. Kunst. Wet., vol. 23, 1B49, p. 11; 

 Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., vol. 1, 1850, p. 102 (Java). 



Gymnocranius lethrinoides Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vol. 8, 1877, p. 96, pi. 334, 

 fig. 3 (Java, Sumatra). 



? I<o6ofes??ixcropnon Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., vol. 2, 1851, p. 174 (Batavia) 

 (young). 



Habitat. — East Indies and southern Japan. 



Description of five specimens 270 to 330 mm, in total length, from 

 Wakanoura and Nagasaki, also some from Misaki, 130 to 170 mm. in 

 length. 



