FISHES. MCCULLOCH. 141 



Family LUTIANID.E. 

 Genus LUTIANUS, Block. 



LUTIANUS ERYTHROPTERUS (Block), Day. 



Lutjanus erythropterus, Bloch, Ichtyologie, 1797, pi. ccxlix. 



Lutianus erythropterus, Day, Fish. India, 1878, p. 32, pi. x., 

 fig. 1-2. 



A small example, 135 mm. long, lias the characteristic 

 marking of the young of L. erythropterus as described and 

 figured by Day. This author examined the types of the 

 species in the Berlin Museum, which do not agree with 

 Bloch's figure. 



Loc. Eleven miles N. 59 \V. of Pine Peak, Queensland. 

 24-26 fathoms ; 1st August, 1910. 



LUTIANUS CHRYSOTJENIA, Sleeker. 



Lutianus chrysotcenia, Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., viii., 1876, p. 50, 

 pi. cccii., fig. 4. Id., Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., vi., 

 1905, p. 62. 



Mesoprion chrysotcenia, Weber, Zool. Forschr. Austr., v., 

 1895, p. 262. 



Three specimens, about 325 mm. long, were taken on lines 

 at North Reef, and Masthead Island, in the Capricorn Group. 

 The species has been recognised from Houtman Abrolhos, 

 Western Australia, by Waite, and from Thursday Island by 

 Weber. Another specimen is in the Australian Museum from 

 Broome, North- Western Australia. 



LUTIANUS FULVIFLAMMA, Forskal. 



Lutianus fulviflamma (Forskal), Day, Fish. India, 1875, 

 p. 42, pi. xii., fig. 6. Id., Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., viii., 

 1876, p. 65, pi. cccxliv., fig. 3. Id., Klunzinger, Sitzb. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx. i., 1879, p. 342. Id., Ogilby, 

 Cat. Fish. N.S.\Vales, 1886, p. 10, and Ed. Fish. N.S. 

 Wales, 1893, p. 14. Id., Stead, Ed. Fish. N.S. Wales, 

 1908, p. 61. 



Notes on the differences between this species and L. russelli 

 are given under the latter heading. 



