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^(;^ Round black blotch size of 

 ej'e below front of soft 

 dorsal and above lateral 

 line ; small black spot at 



pectoral origin luzonius. 



a*. LoxoLUTjANus, neAA' subgenus. Scales above and below lateral line in oblique 



rows crossing its course. 

 aa^. Soft dorsal longer than high. 

 66\ Preopercle entire; broad dark baud from dorsal to ej-e and maxillary; 

 dark saddle, bordered white, on caudal peduncle; caudal truncate or 



little emarginate erythropterus. 



66^ Preopercle deeply gashed; no dark band on head; young with caudal 

 peduncle above and caudal blackish ; caudal deeply emarginate, upper 



lobe greatly expanded with age gibbus. 



aa". Soft dorsal angular or pointed behind, higher than long; preopercle little 

 notched. 

 cc\ Body with longitudinal golden streaks ; caudal peduncle with dark 



blotch, pale in front and behind malabaricus. 



cd'. Three broad blackish transverse bands, first inclined from predorsal 

 through eye and last bent posteriorly on caudal peduncle sebae. 



Subgenus Raizero Jordan and Fesler 



Scales above lateral line entirely in series parallel with its course, 

 below in horizontal series. Fins without filaments. 



LUTJANUS JOHNII (Bloch) 



Anthias johnii Bloch, Naturg. Ausliind. Fische, vol. 6, 1792, p. 113, pi. 318. 

 Suratta. — Forsteu, Fauna Indica, 1795, p. 16. — Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 

 Bloch, 1801, p. 303 (Tranquebar). 



Lutjanus johnii LAcEpfeoE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 191, 235 (Tran- 

 quebar). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 42, pi. 13, fig. 1. — Sauvage, 

 Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 5, 1885, p. 104 (Sv.-atow, China). — 

 Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 476. — Chaudhuri, Mem. 

 Indian Mus., vol. 5, No. 2, Apr. 1923, p. 718 (Kumbha Bay). — Vincigueera, 

 Ann. Mus. Civico Stor. Nat. Geneva, series 3, vol. 10, 1926, p. 584 (Sara- 

 wak). — FowLEK, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 277 (Santa 

 Maria and Philippines) ; Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. .30, No. 1, 1928, 

 p. 113 (Bombay) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 635 (Pa- 

 dang). — TiBANT, Service Oceanogr. Peches ludo Chine, 6 Note, 1929, p. 168 

 (Hue). 



Lutianus johnii Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 42, pi. 13, fig. 1 (type 

 of Mesoprion flavipinnis; Madras). — Klunzingek, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1879, p. 341 (Cleveland Bay and Endeavour River). — 

 Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 525 

 (Padang). — Jordan and Seale, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., vol. 10, 1905, 

 p. 10 (Hong Kong) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, 1906, p. 522 (probably 

 Shanghai).— Lloyd, Rec. Indian Mus, vol. 1, 1907, p. 226 (Akyab).— Gil- 

 christ and Thompson, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 6, 1908, p. 213 (Natal). — 

 Regan, Ann. Natal Gov. Mus., 1908, p. 244 (Durban Bay). — Thompson, 

 Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, vol. 3, 1916, p. 125. — Gilchrist and Thomp- 

 son, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 4, 1917, p. 343 (references). 



