112 THE SHORE FISHES. 



soft dorsal and anal with white margins and three jet black spots size of pupil 

 on the base of dorsal and two on base of anal; caudal with broad pale margin 

 which occupies the terminal half of fin. The other specimen differs in having 

 three spots at base of anal. 



LUTIANIDAE. 

 Hoplopagrus guentherii Gill. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1862, p. 2.>3. Gilbert & Starks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 101. 



Two specimens 5? and Gg inches long from Acapulco. M. C. Z. 29698 (1 



specimen) . 



Lutianus argentiventris (Peters). 



Jordan, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, ser. 2, 5, p. 4.55. Snodgrass & Heller, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 



1905, 6, p. 374. 

 Mesoprion argenliventris Peters, Monatsb. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869, p. 704. 



Three specimens, M. C. Z. 29561, No. 3340, 7| inches long; No. 3360, llg 

 inches long; No. 3361, M. C. Z. 29646, lOj inches long, and three specimens 6 to 

 l\ inches long, all from Acapulco. Two specimens, Ts and 71 inches long from 

 Toboguilla Island, Panama Bay, from among coral. 



Lutianus guttatus (Steindachner). 



Jordan, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, ser. 2, 5, p. 456. Gilbert & Starks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 



4, p. 103. 

 Mesoprion guUalus Steindachner, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1869, 60, p. 18, taf. 8. 



Four specimens, M. C. Z. 29553, 41 to 64 inches long from Perico Island, 

 Panama Bay, in two fathoms of water. 



Thirteen specimens 3| to 4g inches long from Acapulco. 



The black spot on the side in all our specimens is much larger than the eye. 

 The following color note was found among the Acapulco specimens: — "Lower 

 stripes and belly brassy; back stripes brown; ventrals and anal brown; dorsal 

 and caudal with a red margin; central spot black; snout pinkish." 



The dorsal and caudal margins are now dusky. 



Lutianus aratus (Guntheb). 



Jordan, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, ser. 2, 5, p. 457. 



Mesoprion aralus Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, p. 145. 



One specimen 51 inches long from Perico Island, Panama Bay. 



Lutianus marginatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Day, Fishes of India, 1875, p. 44, pi. 13, fig. 4. 



Uiaco-pe marginala Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1828, 2, p. 330 (425). 



