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Serranus fario (Thunberg). Sek, Pan1 (Stone).
Two examples, 128 to 131 mm. Body cream coloured, with rows of yellow spots and edges of scales in spots marked with brown. Below spinous dorsal to and below soft dorsal one brown saddle-like area over- shading cream with yellow spots. Iris yellow. Soft dorsal dull yellow brown. Caudal and pectoral dull yellow." Differs a little from jordan and Richardson's figure (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 37, 1910, p. 451, fig. 9) in very much larger and more crowded spots.
Serranus fasciatus (Forskal). Vvu1 Sz1.
One example, 187 mm.
LUTJANIDAE.
Diploprion bifasciatum Cuvier, For2 Shiu Yiu (Fire burn waist).
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Seven examples, 53 to 134 mm, All have pectorals and soft vertical fins brilliant sulphur yellow. Dark transverse bands sepia, otherwise largely pale yellow. Caudal yellow. Iris brown and blue in front, behind white shot with blue. Cheek pale sepia.”
POMADASYIDAE.
Hapalogenys mucronatus (Eydoux and Souleyet). Ta2 Tito Lap
(Strike iron).
Text figure 6.
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Three examples, 158 to 190 mm., and one young 61 mm, gestive superficially of the young of Plectorhinchus niger (Cuvier) though with different physiognomy, fin formula, scales, etc.
TERAPONIDAE.
Petates quadrilineatus (Bloch).
One example, 118 mm. Reported from Hong Kong previously only by Seale in 1914 as Therapon cuvieri.
LETHRINIDAE.
Lethrinus haematopterus Schlegel.
One example, 123 mm., caudal mostly broken off.
Jordan and Thompson (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1912, p. 560) describe a voung example with a faded black spot between the pectoral and the lateral line. My example has a gray spot close below the lateral line 5 scales behind the gill opening, and little less than eye in extent. Bases of ventrals pale
orange.
SPARIDAE.
Dentex nufar Valenciennes. Lap, Yui (Wax Fish).
Text figure 7.
Six examples, 47 to 59 mm. Third dorsal spine long as head. Teeth all conic, none on palate.
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Quite likely the reference by Martens (Preuss. Exped. Ost Asien, Vol. 1, 1876, p. 387) for Nagasaki is valid for the present species.
Its distribution heretofore has been the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean. All my specimens seem to agree with Klunzinger's figure (Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 35, pl. 4, fig. 2), in that the third dorsal spine is elongated and filamentous.
fish).
Synagris flavolinea new species. Wong, Sam1 Yui (Yellow coat
Text figure 8.
Depth 24/5 to 3; head 34 to 33, width 2. Snout 3 to 31⁄2 in head; eye 3 to 3 2/5, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches 2/5 to 1⁄2 in eye, expansion 21⁄2 to 3 in eye, length 24/5 to 3 in head; teeth in villiform bands in jaws, narrowing posteriorly; no teeth on palate or tongue; interorbital 4% to 4 1/5 in head, slightly concave, superciliary ridges slightly raised; hind preopercle edge minutely denticulate, lower entire. Gill rakers 6+8 or 9, robust points, 2/5 of gill filaments, which half of orbit.
Scales 44 in lateral line to caudal base; 3 above, 8 or 9 below, 7 or 8 forward to occiput though small scales extend still forward nearly to middle of eye; 3 rows on cheek. Caudal finely scaled basally. Scales with 6 or 7 basal radiating striae, with margin scalloped; 65 to 82 short apical denticles, in 1 or 2 alternate series; circuli very fine.
D, X, 9, 1, last spine 2 to 2 1/5 in head, fourth ray 13/5 to 134; A. III, 7, 1, third spine 22/5 to 22, third ray 13 to 2; caudal 1 to 1%, deeply forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 24 to 21⁄2; pectoral 1 1/10; ventral 12 to 13.
Light brown, nearly pale to whitish with faint rosy shades. Rosy bar on hind lower part of opercle. Inside gill opening vermilion. Bases of most of fins show slight yellowish or sulphury tints, especially ventral axillary scale. Irish whitish, Fins all colourless. Both dorsals with median longitudinal sulphur yellow band.
Type 53454 A.N.S.P. Saukiwan. November 10, 1929. 107 mm. Also 53455 A.N.S.P., paratype, same data, 110 mm.
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Diagnosis. Known by its apparently largely unicoloured body, evidently rosy in life, and the dorsal fins with a median longitudinal band of sulphur yellow.
(Flavus yellow; linea, line).
Gymnocranius griseus (Schlegel).
One example, 124 mm.
First dark bar connects eyes; second from occiput branches over opercle and down until close behind ventral base with branch from lateral line down behind pectoral base; third indistinct from spinous dorsal origin to vent; fourth from fifth and sixth dorsal spines till close before anal; fifth from last dorsal spines to middle of anal; sixth on front of caudal peduncle; seventh close before caudal base.
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