NO. 1013. FISHES OF OKINAWA— l^NYDER. 499 



Family LUTIANID^.^ 



LUTIANUS KASMIRA (Forskll). 



Two specimens from the market, 70 millimeters long, have the 

 oblique stripes rather faintly outlined, while a conspicuous, dark 

 spot appears below the origin of the soft dorstil, and between the 

 stripes which pass backward from the eye. One large example has 

 the stripes well defined and the spot scarcely discernible. 



LUTIANUS RIVULATUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Some market specimens about SO millimeters long are presumed 

 to be young individuals of this species. They have a well-defineil 

 dark bar extending from the base of the pectoral to the origin of the 

 dorsal, behind which are one or two indistinctly outlined or scarcely 

 visible bars. A white spot on the lateral line is bordered anteriorly 

 and posteriorly by a dark spot. There are narrow, dark bars across 

 the interorl)ital space. 



LUTIANUS OUINQUELINEATUS (Bloch). 

 LUTIANUS ARGENTIMACULATUS (Forskal). 

 LUTIANUS VITTA (Quoy and Gaimard). 



Color of a fresh market specimen, gra3nsh olive, slightly darker 

 above the lateral line where tiie body color becomes decidedly tinged 

 with yellow posteriorly; lighter below lateral line, the ventral surface 

 suffused with light red; many oblique, j'eliow stripes above lateral 

 line; each scale below lateral line with a narrow, greenish wliite 

 stripe; those on ventral surface pearly; between the narrow stripes 

 are broader ones of pale orange; head grayish olive above, the sides 

 strongly tinged with lavendar; maxillar\% edge of lower jaw and 

 lower edge of preopercle margined witli j^ellow; chin, throat, and 

 branchiostegal region dead white; dorsal fms tinged with yellowish 

 olive and edged with orange; pectorals and ventrals suffused with 

 orange; spot below origin of soft dorsal brownish black; a ])ale, 

 scarcely visible dark stripe passing from snout through eye toward 

 dark spot. 



LUTIANUS MONOSTIGMA (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 APRION VIRESCENS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 PLATYINIUS AMCENUS Snyder. 



Plate 63, figure 3. 

 Platijinius amoenus Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vdl. 40, 1012, p. 530. 



Family H.^JMULID.E. 



C.SSIO ERYTHROGASTER Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



CiESIO CiERULAUREUS (Lacep6de). 



CiESIO CHRYSOZONUS Kuhl and Van Hasselt. 



Color of a market specimen, deep puq)le above, becoming bluish 

 on the sides; ventral surface pearly blue, each scale witli an indistinct 



1 Luiianus vmrginatus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Lutianus ttnimaeulatm (Bloch). 



