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Chrysophrys schlegeli Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., vol. 6, 1854, p. 400 (paxt, 

 epecimen with 45 scales), (Nagasaki); Nieuwe Nalez.Verh. Bat. Gen., vol. 26, 

 1857, pp. 20 and 86 (Nagasaki).— Jordan and Snyder, Check List, Ann. 

 Zool. Jap., vol. 3, pts. 2 and 3, 1901, p. 80 (part). 



Sparus chrysopterus Kishinouye, Zool. Mag. Tokyo, vol. 19, 1907, p. 327 (Kiusiu, 

 Shikoku, Inland Sea and Pacific coast of Central Hondo). 



Habitat. — Southern Japan and China. 



Described from a specunen 155 mm. long from Kobe and one 190 

 mm. long from Wakanoura, besides four specimens 100 to 108 mm. 

 in body length from the latter place. 



Head SJ in body length; depth of body 2|; eye 4^ in head; depth 

 of preorbital 6; second anal spine 1^ in head; D. XI, 11 or 12; A. Ill, 8; 

 scales in lateral line 45, in transverse series 5 or 6/12; gill rakers 6 + 9 

 or 10. 





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Fig. 10.— Sparus latus. 



Dorsal profile of head nearly straight to occiput, body profile most 

 strongly arched anteriorly, sometimes slightly concave behind eyes. 

 Snout more pointed than in S. aries, the upper profile not approaching 

 the vertical ; lower jaw not included, upper jaw not overhung by tip of 

 snout; preorbital narrow, not as broad as eye is long. Interorbital 

 space arched moderately. Maxillary ending under center of pupil, 

 2^ in head; preopercle very minutely serrated, not flexible. Teeth 

 in jaws only; lower jaw with two rows posteriorly, both of rounded 

 molars; inner row broadest save posteriorly, where it is replaced b}^ 

 much smaller ones; both becoming granular anteriorly. A third 

 inner row of small rounded molars present along anterior halves of 

 each mandible. Upper jaw with three rows of rounded molars in 

 front, the outer conical anteriorly, the middle row extending only half 

 way to snout, where it is replaced by another row inside of the third, 

 all becoming granular anteriorly. Six conical canines present in 

 front in each jaw. 



