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8961. Albay Gulf, Luzon. June 21, 1909. Length 315 mm. 

 8134. Alibi jaban Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 6, 1909. Length 312 mm. 

 5623. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. April 22, 190S. Length 330 mm. 

 9176. Gigoso Point, Samar. July 28, 1909. Length 213 mm. (1729). 

 9293. Murcielagos Bay, Mindoro. August 9, 1909. Length 393 mm. 

 9334, 18586. Murcielagos Bay. August 21, 1909. Length 211 to 650 mm. 

 7384. Port Caltom, Busuanga Island. December 15, 1908. Length 311 mm. 

 7692. Ulugan Bay, Palawan Island. December 29, 1908. Length 350 mm. 

 A680. Bumbum Island, vicinity of Darvel Bay, Borneo. September 25, 1909. 



Length 358 mm. 

 A704, A705. Danawan Island, vicinity Sibuko Bay, Borneo. September 27, 1909. 



Length 448 to 475 mm, 

 A765. Mabul Island, vicinity Sibuko Bay, Borneo. September 29, 1909. 



Length 550 mm. 

 A995. Buka Buka Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. November 20, 1909. Length 



335 mm. 

 13386, 13387. Labuandata Bay, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 18, 1909. 



Length 210 to 230 mm. 

 A1129, A1131. Kayoa Island. November 29, 1909. Length 393 to 580 mm. 



Genus VARIOLA Swainson 



Fan'oZa Swainson, Lardner's Cabinet Cycloped. (Nat. Hist. Animals), Fishes, 

 vol. 2, 1839, p. 202. Type Variola longipinna Swainson, monotypic. 



Louti Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, p. 44. Type Perca louti Forskal, 

 by vernacular tautonym. (Inadmissible.) 



Pseudoserranus Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 

 687. Type Perca louti Forskal, monotypic. 



Body oblong, compressed. Eyes lateral, moderate. One or 2 

 curved canines each side of mandible, besides pair in front of each 

 jaw. Teeth in jaws villiform, on vomer and palatines and inner row 

 in both jaws depressible. Preopercle with hind edge weakly serrated, 

 lower edge entire. Opercle with 3 spines. Scales small, ctenoid, 

 none on snout, suborbitals or maxillary. Dorsal spines 9, rays 14, 

 soft dorsal ending in long point. Anal spines 3, rays 8, soft anal 

 also ending in point. Caudal emarginate, angles pointed. 



Indo-Pacific. 



VARIOLA LOUTI (Forak&l) 



Perca louti Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xi, 40. Djedda and 

 Lohaja, Red Sea. — Bonnaterre, Ta'bl. Ichth., 1788, p. 133 (Red Sea). — 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, 1789, p. 1318 (Arabia). — Walbaum, 

 Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 338 (on Forskal). 



Bodianus louti Suckow, Naturgesch., vol. 4, 1799, p. 517 (Red Sea). — 

 Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 332 (Red Sea). — Lacepede, Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 278, 286 (Arabia). 



Serranus louti Ruppell, Atlas R,eise nordl. Afrika, Fische, 1828, p. 106, pi. 

 26, fig. 2 (Mohila).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 101 

 (Copang, Timor; Mauritius; Red Sea; Amboyna). — Playfair, Fishes of 

 Zanzibar, 1886, p. 1 (Zanzibar). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 

 1, pt. 1, 1873, p. 2, pi. 1 (Red Sea, East Africa, Indian Ocean, New 

 Hebrides, Society Islands, Tuamotus). — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. 

 Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 8 (Manado, Celebes; Kordo, Mysore). — 

 Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 459 (Paragua, Mindanao). 



