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Color in life dark red on sides, nearly blackish red above, paler 

 red on lower sides; dorsals and caudal blackish red ; upper rays of pec- 

 toral blackish red, lower rays paler red ; diffuse blackish band on lower 

 side of maxillaries ending just behind corner of mouth ; midsides of 

 head with a broad darker band; a paler area occurs near posterior 

 base of soft dorsal, alxsent in the larger specimens. 



LUTIANUS RIVULATUS (Cuvier) 



D'mcope rivulata Gwier, in Cuvier and "Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des 

 poissons, vol. 2, p. 414, pi. 38, 1828. 



52382, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 

 Genus LETHRINUS Cuvier 



Lcthrinus CxmEK, Regne animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 184, 1829. (Type, Spams choero- 

 hynchus Bloch, in Schneider.) 



LETHRINUS RAMAK (Forskal) 



Sciaena ramak Foesk.\l, Descriptiones animalium, p. 52, 1775. 



115661, Canton Island, lagoon, April 23 to May 12, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 52439, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 2 specimens. 



LETHRINUS HARAK (Forsk&I) 



Sciaena harak Forskal, Descriptiones animalium, pp. 12, 52, 1775. 



52384, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 4 specimens. 

 52288, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 3 specimens. 



LETHRINUS MAHSENA (Forsk&l) 



Sciaena mahsena ForskAx, Descriptiones animalium, pp. 12, 52, 1775, 



3480S, Apia, Samoa, May 1.5, 1883. W. H. Jones, 1 specimen. 

 52377, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



LETHRINUS AMBOINENSIS Bleeker 



Lethrvnus amboinensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Iiid., vol. 6, p. 490, 1854. 

 52464, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



LETHRINUS MINIATUS (Bloch) 



Sparus miniatus (Forster) Bloch, in Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae . . ., 

 p. 281, 1801. 

 52420, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



Genus MONOTAXIS Bennett 



Monotaxis BEJNNErrr, Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Stamford Raf- 

 fles, p. 688, 1830. [Type, Monotaxis indica Bennett (Sciaena grandocnli^ 

 Forskfll).] 



MONOTAXIS GRANDOCULIS (Forskal) 



Sciaena grandoculis ForskAl, Descriptiones animalium, pp. 12, 53, 1775. 

 lir)670, Rose Island, lagoon, June 12 to 20, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 115671, Rose Island, reef, June 11 to 14, 1939, 2 speciuients. 

 52473, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



