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prominent; preorbital moderate, its least width 65- in head. Mouth 

 moderate; jawssubequal; maxillary reaching front of pupil. 2| in bead; 

 upper jaw with a narrow band of villiform teeth, outside of which area 

 few stronger teeth or canines; anterior canines moderate, about one- 

 fifth eye. Lower jaw with a band of villiform teeth, outside which is a 

 series of canines, six on each side, the lateral canines largest, but smaller 

 than upper front teeth. Tongue toothless. Vomer with a /^-shaped 

 band, without backward prolongation on median line. Gill-rakers 

 rather short and slender, ten of them developed, not quite one-third of 

 eye. Eye large, 4. in head ; nostrils small, well separated, the anterior 

 circular, the posterior oblong. Preopercle strongly serrate below, finely 

 serrate above; above the angle a sharp deep narrow notch, into which 

 a knob of the interopercle fits, as in other species of the group called 

 Genyoroge or Diacope. 



Scales rather small, the rows below the lateral line in nearly hori- 

 zontal series, those above in very oblique series, nowhere parallel with 

 the lateral line; seven or eight rows of scales on cheeks; those of an- 

 terior row largest; one row on interopercle; none on suborbital or pre- 

 orbital ; some scales close to posterior margin of eye. Top of head cov- 

 ered with small scales as far forward as a point opposite front of pupil ; 

 about ten rows of scales, large and small, between eye and suprascapular 

 Soft dorsal and anal scaly. Tubes of lateral line finely branched. Dor. 

 sal spines low, moderately strong, the general outline of the fin rounded, 

 a little depressed ever last spine. Fourth spine longest, 3 in head. 

 Soft dorsal evenly rounded, quite low, the longest ray 4} in head. 

 Caudal lunate, the lobes subequal, If times length of middle rays, and 

 If in head. Anal moderate, the free edge of the soft part nearly 

 straight. Second spine longest and strongest, 2f in head ; soft rays 3£ 

 in head. Pectoral long, pointed, 1| in head, reaching just past vent 

 Ventrals 1| in head. 



Color in spirits brown, apparently golden in life, with five sky-blue 

 longitudinal stripes on side, each of these broadly and sharply mar- 

 gined with dark blue. The whole band is about as broad auteriorly as 

 the interspaces; posteriorly § interspace ; the dark blue border is nearly 

 as wide on each side as the median pale blue band. These bands are 

 arranged precisely as in Lutjanus kasmira (bengalensis Bloch), but on 

 the head they are better defined in L. viridis, and in L. kasmira, the 

 lower band is absent, leaving but four. In L. viridis there is a faint 

 median blue streak from occiput on dorsal line to front of dorsal ; then 

 a band (of 3 blue streaks as above stated) from occiput above eye to 

 base of 9th dorsal spine; second band from upper edge of eye to middle 

 of soft dorsal ; third, from middle of eye to last ray of dorsal; fourth, 

 from canine of upper jaw along lower edge of eye to middle of baee of 

 caudal peduncle where it disappears abruptly; fifth, from end of max- 

 illary across lower base of pectoral to above last ray of anal. Fins ail 



