FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 87 



Hypoplitea Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 236. Tj^pe Meso- 



prion retrospinis CimEK, mouotypic. 

 EvopUtes Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 236. Type Mesoprion 



pomacanthus Bleekeb, monotypic. 

 Neomesoprion Casteln'au, Philadelphia Cent. Exhib. OflBc. Rec. (Res. Fishes 



Australia), 1875 (1876), p. 8. Type Neomesoprion unicolor Castelnau, 



monotypic. 

 RaUrubia Joedan and Feslek, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., pt. 17, 1889 (1893), p. 



438. Type Mesoprion inermis Petees, mouotypic. 

 Raizero Jokdan and Fesler, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., pt. 17, 1889 (1893), p. 438. 



Type Mesoprion aratus Gxjnthek, mouotypic. 

 Bennettia Fowleb, Jouru. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, 



p. 524. Type Anthias johnU Bloch, orthotypic. 

 Parkia Fowlek, Jouru. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 525. 



Type Lutianus furvicaudatus Fowler, orthotypic. 

 RhombopUtoides Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, June 4, 1918^ 



p. 33. Type RhombopUtoides megalops Fowler, orthotypic. 



Body compressed, oblong, back usually elevated. Head long, 

 pointed, well compressed. Mouth large. Maxillary usually slips 

 entirely below preorbital. Jaws with bands of villiform teeth, outer 

 larger row often present; 2 to 4 strong or caninelike teeth at front 

 of upper jaw ; vomer and palatines with villiform teeth and often 1 

 or more areas of teeth on tongue with age; pterygoids toothless. 

 Nostrils usually close together, without tube. Preopercle with or 

 without shallow to deep notch into which distinct tubercle or knob 

 may fit; hind edge finelj^ serrate. Gill rakers few, rather short. 

 Vertebrae 24 of which 14 caudal. Scales about 40 to 90 in lateral 

 series. Head naked or scaly above, with wide inclined band of scales 

 at nape. Soft dorsal and anal scaly basally. Dorsal spines 10, rarely 

 12, continuous with rays which 11 to 16. Anal spines 3, rays 7 to 9. 

 Last dorsal and anal rays not extended. Caudal truncate or bilobate. 

 Pectoral elongate, pointed. 



Mesoprion aurivittatus Kent "^ and Mesoprion helenae Kent ^ are 

 unidentifiable names. 



Lutjanus paraeTnulon Bleeker ^ is noticed : 



Depth 31/2 in length. D. XI, 13? 



Gray blue, with 10 to 12 more or less interrupted red bands. Pec- 

 toral immaculate violet blue. 



Another unidentifiable nominal species is Lutjanus duhius Bleeker ® 



Depth 4 in length. Bluish, with 4 longitudinal yellow bands; 

 uppermost from neck to dorsal; second from above eye to dorsal; 

 third from snout through eye to caudal; fourth from maxillary to 

 caudal. Caudal with 5 longitudinal brown or blackish bands, of 

 which median horizontal, others oblique. 



" Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 370. Quoensland. 



" Idem, p. 370. Queensland. 



' Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, 1S74, p. 150. China. 



" Idem, p. 152. China. 



