256 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIOXAL MUSEUM. vol. 56. 



front part of spinous dorsal, though parallel on caudal peduncle above. 

 Scales below lateral line in horizontal rows. Small scales on breast, 

 much more so on vertical fin bases. Cheek with 7 rows of scales. 

 Suprascapula denticulate marginally. Lateral line concurrent with 

 dorsal profile; tubes inconspicuous. Spinous dorsal begins about 

 over pectoral origin, fourth spine 2^ to 2f in head. Soft dorsal 

 inserted little nearer caudal base than spinous dorsal origin; fin 

 rounded. Spinous anal begins little behind soft dorsal origin; sec- 

 ond spine longest or 2|- to 2 1 in head. Soft anal rounded; third ray 

 If to 2| in head. Caudal with hind edge slightly emarginate. 

 Pectoral, !{ to 1§ in head; ventral. 1| to If; and spine about half 

 of fin; filamentous end of first ra}" nearly to vent; last slightly less 

 than an eye-diameter before anal. 



Color in alcohol brown on back and above; below paler to whitish. 

 Each scale below lateral line with pale yellowish spot formed into 

 lengthwise streaks. Below front no'stril close to preorbital edge a 

 bluish line, with narrow dark brown bordering lines, extending along 

 lower eye edge back to hind preopercle angle. Iris pale yellowish. 

 Fins brownish, ventral and anal whitish. Pectoral base brown. 

 Three examples, 46 to 190 mm. 



Sleeker shows ^ the hind preopercle edge with a slight gash above 

 its corner, hardly evident in my examples. 



LUTJANUS MODESTUS Bleeker. 



Head, 2f to 2$; depth, 2| to 2|; D. X, 13 or 14; A. Ill, 8; scales, 

 45 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 more on latter; 6 scales above 

 lateral line to soft dorsal origin and 12 below; 14 or 15 predorsal 

 scales; snout, 3^ to 3| in head from upper jaw tip; eye, 3f to 4|; 

 maxillary, 2| to 2|; interorbital, 5 to 5|. Well compressed, back 

 little elevated. Caudal peduncle well compressed, about long as 

 deep. Head pointed, sides flattened; width, 2f its length. Snout 

 conic, long as wide, or width 1^ its length. Eye slightly ellipsoid; 

 hind edge midway in its length, little backward in young. Maxillary 

 beyond front of pupil or about two-fifths in eye. Mouth large ,*lower 

 jaw slightly protruding. Bands of villiform teeth in jaws, outer row 

 of enlarged conic canines; canines each side of lov/er jaAv and pair in 

 front of upper. Bands of villiform teeth on vomer and palatines, in 

 A -shaped patch on fonner. Tongue free, pointed, with elongate 

 median area of minute teeth. Front nostril small pore advanced 

 before eye three-fifths an eye-diameter, and hind nostril little larger 

 midway between front one and eye. Interorbital broad, very slightly 

 convex. Hind preopercle edge finely serrate, serrae little enlarged 

 at angle, and with none on lower edge forward, though slight emar- 

 gination just above corner. Least preorbital width about one- 



' Nat. Verhandcl. Holl. Maats. Wet. Haarlem, vol. 18 (P. GuiiKf'e), 1S6.3, p. 46, pi. 10, fig. 1. Ashanteo. 



