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sec^|# and’third ines Jpbequal, 2 /g in head, first ray 2 l / ^\ caudal l/4> 
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little emarginate; lea fp r depth of caudal peduncle 2/3; pectoral 1 /]n> 
veiTtral 2. 
rosy, 
Yellowish ipwith silvery reflections. Head brown. Gorge and fins 
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Bourbois|‘ Delagoa Bay. The typ.1^ obtained by Gg^nard, was 175 mm. 
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long. Sauvage *pys this species i 
convex front pfgfile above th 
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Lethrinus caeruleus ValencMnnes , , / 
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p. 202, pie 21, fig. 3 
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Depth 2°/g; head 2yg, upper prjUile little convex just before eye. 
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Snout 1 /c in head; eye 3 /«, 2 / 8 in sn$|st, maxillary reaches ®/. to eye, 
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length 2 /g in eye; teeth as 4 moderate Minines apparently in front of each 
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jaw as shown on figure followed by 4 or» similar conic teeth; molars somewhat 
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stronger above than below; interorbital 
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|ter than eye. 
Scales 54 in lateral line to caudal base on figure; 6 ab%ve, 16 be- 
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low; predorsal scales extend forward opposite hind eye edge. 
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third spine 3, first ray 2^/g; caudal 1^/5. truncate; least depth of caudal 
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