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lateral line simple. Spinous dorsal begins over pectoral origin; 

 third spine longest, or 2f to 2|- in head. Soft dorsal origin midway 

 between spinous dorsal origin and caudal base; fin rounded; fifth ray 

 2 to 2^- in head. Spinous anal inserted about opposite last dorsal 

 spine base; second anal spine longest, little longer than third, or 

 2| to 3| in head. Caudal rounded, IJ to 1^ in head; pectoral, 1§ 

 to If; ventral, 1| to IJ, spine, 1§ to 2 in fin. 



Color in alcohol generally brown, under surface whitish, with five 

 close-set ]>airs of slightly deeper brown cross-bands, mottled obscurely 

 and sparsel}' with still dee]3er brown. Head with three ]>ale lines, 

 U])]:)ermost from hind eye edge to pectoral origin, median from lower 

 hind eye edge toward lower pectoral basal edge, and lowest line from 

 lower jjreorbital edge to breast. Fins pale brown; edges of doi"sals 

 deep brown, and median dee]) broAvn longitudinal band whole length 

 of fin, though broken behind on soft fin as several blotches. Dark 

 crossbars on trunk extend on dorsal bases as blotches. Anal with 

 lower edge M^'hitish and two ])ale brown longitudinal lines obliquely 

 up behind. Caudal with several indistinct brown crossbars. Pec- 

 toral very pale. Ventral brown, front terminal edge whitish, and 

 otherwise dusky terminally. Iris ]iale brown. Three exam])les, S9 

 to 95 mm. 



LUTJANUS GUINEENSIS Bleeker. 



Head, 2+ to 2f; depth, 2|; D. X, 14; A. HI, 8; scales 44 to 49 

 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 or 6 more on latter; 7 scales above 

 lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 12 or 13 below; 12 to 16 predorsal 

 scales; snout, 2j^ to 3| in head; eye, 3| to 4; maxillary, 2| to 2|; 

 interorbital, 5 to 5f. Well compressed, back elevated. Cauda 

 peduncle well compressed ; least depth f to | its length. Head com- 

 pressed, pointed, profiles straight and even, width 2| to 2| its 

 length. Snout conic; width, 1| its length. Eye little ellipsoid; 

 hind pupil edge little advanced to center in head length. Maxillary 

 not quite to pupil. Mouth large, jaws even. Bands of viUiform 

 teeth ^n jaws, outer row of enlarged conic teeth and in front of upper 

 pair of canines. Villiform teeth on vomer and palatines, in t -shaped 

 patch on former. Tongue free, pointed, with elongate median 

 patch of minute teeth. Front nostril small pore, three-fourths an 

 eye-diameter before eye. Hind nostril twice as large and midway in 

 space to eye. Interorbital broadly convex. Hind preopercle edge 

 straight, finely serrate, with serrae little enlarged at angle, nine on 

 lower edge forward. Least preorbital width about one-third to 

 four-fifths of eye. Rakers, v 1 + 8 iv, lanceolate, two in eye and 

 about long as filaments. Pseudobranchiae equally large as filaments. 

 Scales finely ctenoid, with radiating basal striae about 21. Above 

 lateral line scales at first parallel, then rather abruptly oblique after 



