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at least on backgi|id sides, with darker margin. u ead rather dull drabkbrown 
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above and on sidra below pale to whitish, ^ris yellowish brown. Hind 
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border of gill ojifhing little darker brown than adjoining color. Below last 
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dorsal spine or $font dorsal rays, close below lateral line, a large dusky 
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neutral to blac^fsh blotch 7 to 9 scales long and about 4 deep. Fins pale 
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Micronesia,,.Melanesia, Polynesia. My series of specimens shoves the quite 
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variable ®|fe often small in the young and large in larger examples. The 
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species may be known by the characteristic large dark blotch, always greater 
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than tl^’ eye, above the end of th^Seprei^td pectoral fin. In profile the 
head M deep, though with rather projectedg|snout. It is well figured by 
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Gilnt&er as Lethrlnus bipifcamensi s. Mppelijfs figure of Lethrinus harak shows 
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thefdark lateral Jjl f 6tch only one scale infwidth and on the second row of 
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scafes belig^rthe lateral line. Some preflrved specimens show each scale with 
a'distinct pale or light median spot< 
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ike, Lethrinus leutjanus in profile line. My specimens all agree in the size 
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of the large dark lateral blotch, and ;§jhougJi it is often extended beyond the 
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tip of the depressed pectoral fin i-fe? usually is close up with the lateral 
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line, sometimes even on the row of.^scales. I have seen no examples like 
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Le thr inus at kins o ni Seale. At l^st one example (9203 : ) has the black lateral 
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blotch over the posterior half pf the depressed pectoral, one row of scales 
below the lateral line, but no^ extending beyond'-the tip of the fin. 
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Lethrinus elongatu^Jis described vibry briefly as compared with 
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L. vari ^atus, with the body-long and the r snout more pointed. Body gray!green 
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on back, 'white below. Fingered, dorsa 1 wi th blue spots. Length 305 mm. 
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