MALACANTHIDAE. 
Malacanthus hoedtii Bleeker, tag. POPs 
Head 4 3/5; depth 72; D.60; A, 51; wise about 155 in 
lateral line to caudal base and 12 more on latter; 8 scales 
above lateral line and 28 below to anal origin: 20 predorsal — 
scales; snout 3 in head; eye 4 4/5; maxillary 2 2/3; interorbital 
3 2/5; head width 21/8. Snout conic, long as wide. Eye with 
hind edge midway in head length; 1 2/3 in snout. Mouth moderate, 
lower jaw slightly shorter. Maxillary reaches pupils; expansion 
< in eye. Teeth conic, in bands in jaw, outer row enlarged; no 
vomerine-palatine teeth. Interorbital breadly convex. Opercle 
with strong spine, Rakers 1, 547 iii, lanceolate, 3 in fila- 
ments, which 1 3/5 in eye. Scales with 8 to 10 basal radiating 
striae; apical denticles 20 to 27; circuli moderate; 8 scales 
on cheek below eye to preopercle angle; each tube in lateral line 
with short prong. Color in alcohol uniform dull brown above, 
paler below. Caudal with 2 blackish longitudinal bands, sloping 
toward front fin edges. About 2OOfaint vertical brownish cross- 
bars, Length 280 mm, Mewi, 
M. parvipinnis Vaillant and Sauvage has been credited as a 
distinct species by some writers. Ewidently the sligntly increased 
fin-rays were the supposed chief characters of distinction, though 
Gunther is doubtless correct in assigning the range of M. hoedtii 
EOD 
over the Indo-Pacific 
155 
Journ.“us,Godeffroy,vol.ll,part 5, 1876, p. 160, *1.98,fig.B. 
