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U.S.N. M. No. 58018. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 220 to 295 mm. 



Two examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 58992. Bacou. Bureau of Fisheries (3970). Length, 101 mm. 

 U.S.N. M. No. 65899. Kusaie, CaroHnes. Bureau of Fisheries (08935). Length 



242 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 65900. Suva, Fiji. Albatross collection (A143). Length, 276 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 65901. Vavau, Tonga Islands. Bureau of Fisheries (08896). 



Length, 186 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 84198. Cebu. Dr. F. Baker. Length, 279? mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 84244. Zamboanga. Dr. F. Baker. Length, 138 mm. As 



Lutjanus fulviflamma. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 84260. Zamboanga. Dr. F. Baker. Length, 144? mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 48621. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 



Length, 125? mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 52802. Calapan, Mindoro. Rev. Joseph Clemens. Length, 150? mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 52801. Orion. May 11, 1923. Rev. Joseph Clemens. Length, 



195 mm. 



LETHRINUS ATKINSONI Scale 



Lethrinus atkinsoni Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4, No. 6, p. 515, pi. 11, 

 1909 (type locality: Balabac Island). — Herre and Montalban, Philip- 

 pine Journ. Sci., vol. 33, No. 4, p. 412, 1927 (type). 



Depth 2}^; head 2%, upper profile obtuse. Snout l%o in head; eye 

 1%, IK in snout, impinging on upper profile; maxillary reaches % to 

 eye, length 2% in head; 4 large front canines in each jaw, laterals 

 conic in front and large molars behind, each molar with longitudinal 

 groove; behind canines patch of vomerine teeth; interorbital 3%, 

 slightly convex. Gill rakers 4, short, blunt, on lower branch of first 

 arch, longest K pupil. 



Scales 47 in lateral fine to caudal base; 6 above, 14 below; predorsal 

 scales forward opposite eye; head naked except opercle and 2 patches 

 of scales behind eye, one above preopercle and other on side of nape. 



D. X, 9, third spine 3 in head, third ray 2%; A. Ill, 8, third spine 

 3K, first ray 3; caudal !){, deeply emarginate; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 3; pectoral 1; ventral 1%. 



Yellow in life, with sHght wash of grayish. In alcohol whitish, 

 slightly grayish drab above; middle of each row of scales darker, as 

 four or five narrow longitudinal lines above lateral line parallel with 

 back. Large, rather indistinct oblong dusky blotch between pectoral 

 and lateral line. Breast and upper pectoral axil grayish. Fins im- 

 maculate in life, except dusky tips of ventrals and caudal washed 

 yellow. In alcohol fins white, upper surface of first pectoral ray 

 gray and ventral dusky on terminal third. Length, 220 mm. (Seale.) 



The above from the type, apparently differing from Lethrinus 

 harak (Forsk^l) in the more advanced dark lateral blotch above the 

 middle of the pectoral fin. Lethrinus hypselopterus is also very similar 

 except for the higher soft anal, which is as high as long. Seale gives 

 the type No. 5080 taken at Balabac Island, August 6, 1908, as 220 mm 

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