10 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Red Sea, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Natal, 

 Madagascar, India, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, China, RiuKiu, 

 Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia. Easily known among all the species 

 of its genus by its very long attenuated snout, broad lips, and conic 

 teeth. Moreover, it reaches a large size, Khmzinger giving 820 mm 

 as maximum length. 



Valenciennes says of Lethrinus olivaceus: "The spinous dorsal is 

 yellowish, edged orange, with golden yellow spots and large olive 

 spots at the base of each spine. Soft dorsal membrane golden, also 

 same of pectoral and caudal. Rays of these fins yellow. Anal and 

 ventral yellowish." 



One example. Atulayan Bay, Luzon. June 17, 1909. Length, 83 mm. 



8647. Biri Channel. June 22, 1909. Length, 544 mm. 



15274. Canmahala Bay, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 11, 1909. Length, 240 mm. 



5543. Cataingan, Masbate. April 18, 1908. Length, 233 mm. Back dark 

 olive-green. Top of head more or less slaty, sides and lower portions paler. 

 Centers of scales light, edges forming color, except on upper side where scale 

 centers irregularly blue and on middle of side borders of scales with brownish 

 tinge, forming more or less ill-defined stripes. Side of head with umber shades; 

 blue stripe from eye to front nostril; bluish under eye carried downward across 

 front of cheek to mouth corner as slaty stripe; similar stripe across preorbital 

 parallel. Vertical fins olive-green, reddish terminally on membranes. Caudal 

 with obscure reddish bars irregular. Pectoral hyaline straw, first or upper- 

 most ray blue. Ventral olive, front edge bluish. 



5552. Cataingan. April 19, 1908. Length, 265 mm. 



5164 and 5165. Iloilo market. June 1, 1908. Length, 198 to 218 mm. 



21163. Jolo market. February 11, 1908. Length, 80 mm?. 



5963. Little Santa Cruz Island. May 26, 1908. Length, 686 mm. Olivaceous 

 above, whitish below, margins of scales darkest. Maxillary and premaxillary 

 membranes scarlet. Inside mouth posteriorly scarlet. Membrane of soft 

 dorsal reddish. Anal less so. Slight reddish tinge on caudal tips. 



8508. Makesi Island, Palawan. April 5, 1909. Length, 280 mm. 



22567. Malcochin Harbor, Linapacan Island. December 19, 1908. Length, 

 69 mm. 



21611. Matnog Bay. May 31, 1909. Length, 103 mm. 



20442 to 20444. Nato River, Luzon. June 19, 1909. Length, 98 to 106 mm. 



19476 and 19477. Port Caltom, Pangauron River. December 16, 1908. Length, 

 65 to 185 mm. 



6348. Port Jamelo. July 13, 1908. Length, 204 mm. Olive and dusky above, 

 pale below. Cheek and preorbitals with dusky. Side more or less washed 

 with yellow. Vertical fins slightly marked with crimson on membranes. 

 Ventral fins dusky. Pectoral brassy. 



7076. Port San Pio Quinto. November 11, 1908. Length, 303 mm. Dark 

 olivaceous, paler below. Side of head with blackish speckling, also little on 

 side of body. Inside mouth scarlet. Fins slightly reddish or orange ter- 

 minally. Pectoral scarlet in upper base and in axil. Scarlet blotch on gill 

 opening under point of pectoral. 



8979. Rapu-Rapu Island. June 22, 1909. Length, 680 mm. 



8902. Rasa Island, Lagonoy Gulf. June 17, 1909. Head and part of trunk; 

 head, 195 mm long. 



22291. River at Port Dupon, Leyte. March 17, 1909. Length, 115 mm. 



