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Paired fins uniform dull brown. Iris yellowish brown. Also several 

 scales on opercle above dark drab-brown. 



East Indies, Pliilippines. Compared with Weber's figure my 

 examples do not show the dark ventral or anal, though in most every 

 other way they agree. The species appears to be distinguished by 

 its coloration, especially in the longitudinal rows of dark spots on the 

 body scales. Weber's two examples were 385 to 490 mm long. 



A515. Bulan Island. September 13, 1909. Length, 338 mm. Scales on side of 

 body mostly with pale median spot. Head olive, with yellowish wash; opercular 

 flap brilliant scarlet; little scarlet in premaxillary membranes but none on 

 opercular membranes. Dorsals clear crimson; front spinous portion largely 

 olive, also showing as sjiots in posterior basal portion. Anal membranes orange 

 terminally, more yellowish olive basalh'. Caudal membranes similar to soft 

 dorsal but not so bright. Paired fins pale brassy; pectorals scarlet at base and 

 in axil, first ray somewhat slaty. 



8832. Maculabo Island. June 14, 1909. Length, 300 mm. Side crossed by 

 two longitudinal yellow bands, one in region of lateral line and one backward 

 from upper base of pectoral. Fin raj's somewhat vermilion, taking form of 

 bars on caudal base and more or less mottled on dorsal. This specimen from 

 deeper water than usual. 



LETHRINUS MAHSENA (Forskai) 



Sciaena mahsena Forskal, Descript. Animal., pp. xii, 52, 1775 (type locality: 

 Arabia). — Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ichth., p. 124, 1788 (Red Sea). — Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, p. 1304, 1789 (Arabia). 



Sparus mahsena LacepI:de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, pp. 34, 111, 1802 (Arabia). 



Lethrinus mahsena Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 313, 1830 

 (copied). — RtJppELL, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, p. 119, pi. 29, fig. 4, 1835 

 (Red Sea).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 463, 1859 (Red 

 Sea). — ScHMELTZ, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 4, p. 14, 1869 (Kandavu). — 

 Klunzinger, Verb. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 753, 1870 (types of 

 Lethrinus bungus and Lethrinus abbreviaius) . — Gunther, Journ. Mus. 

 Godefifroy, vols. 2-3, pts. 5-6, p. 65, pi. 48, 1874 (Seychelles, Philippines, 

 Pelew, Fiji, Hervey, Paumotu Islands). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berlin, 1876, p. 438 (Mauritius). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., 

 vol. 8, p. 113, 1876-1877 (on GtJNTHER). — Kossman and Rauber, Wiss. 

 Ergebn. Reise Kustengeb. Roth. Meers, vol. 1, p. 1 1, 1877 (Red Sea) . — Kossman, 

 Zool. Anz., vol. 2, p. 22, 1879 (Red Sea).— Gtjnther, Philos. Trans. Roy. 

 Soc, vol. 168, p. 471, 1879 (Rodriguez). — Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 

 p. 40, 1884 — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espaii. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, p. 19, 

 1885 (Cebu; Kordo, Mysore). — Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1887, p. 658 (Muscat). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 205, 

 pi. 25, figs. 2-2a, 1891 (type of Lethrinus abbreviatus). — Jordan and Seale, 

 Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, p. 270, 1905 (1906) (Apia). — Ztjgmayer, Abh. 

 Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 26, pt. 6, p. 11, 1913 (Oman). — 

 Bamber, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., vol. 31, p. 481, 1915 (Sudanese 

 Red Sea). — Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, p. 64, 1918 (Philippines). — Fowler 

 and Ball, Bishop Mus. Bull. 26, p. 14, 1925 (Wake Island). — Herre and 

 MoNTALBAN, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 33, No. 4, p. 417, pi. 8, fig. 1, 1927 

 (Subic Bay and Bantayan Island). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel- 

 phia, p. 281, 1927 (Philippines); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 212, 1928 

 (Mangareva, Wake Island, Ponap^, Apia); vol. 11, No. 5, p. 334, 1931 

 (reference) . 



