Jordan and Thompson have retained Pagrosomus major 
(kevieper) as a distant species, setting forth the more 
narrow preopbital in the Japanese species. Though they 
had a much larger Australian example than any before us, 
the preorbital width is at least intermediate. As it is 
much narrower in young Austrelian material this character 
may not be worth much, Ths scales above the lateral line 
also vary likewise. These writers give the color as silvery, 
darker above and fins uniform. No mention of the dark 
axillery blotch is made, though under PB, major they state 
from Kishinouye that the base of the pectoral is dark 
brown. The change with age, like the formation of the bony 
gsupraoccipital and flabby swollen snout, would barely appear 
to be specific characters, Chrysophrys major Schlegel therefore 
gives way to the older Labrus suratus Schneider, originally 
from New Zealand, | 
P. auratus has heen doubtless recorded by Gunther from 
the Cape of Good Hope. Our example from there, however, 
agrees in every way with our other materials, and though 
faded, still shows traces of the dark pectoral axilla, 
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Proc .U.S.Nat.Mus.,vol.41,1912, p. 576, 
