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band may meet on predorsal. All specimens show distinct whitish 

 saddle about size of pupil on caudal peduncle close behind base of 

 last dorsal ray. Iris yellowish white. Fins pale brownish, lower 

 ones whitish. Ventrals gray to rather dark gray terminally. 



Celebes, Queensland. Bleeker had but two young examples 82 

 to 86 mm., one of which is rather indifferently figured. Ogilby's 

 figure differs in that it shows the hind caudal edge blackish. Neither 

 of these writers show the pearl white saddle on the caudal peduncle 

 close behind the soft dorsal fin. 



5718 to 5721. Cebu market. August 12, 1909. Length 144 to 198 mm. 

 6099. Cebu market. August 12, 1909. Length 133 mm. 

 8417. Cebu market. March 20, 1908. Length 258 mm. 



Subgenus Neomaenis Girard 



Scales above lateral line in oblique rows, at least for some part 

 posteriorly, below in horizontal series. Predorsal scales not extend- 

 ing forward in interorbital. 



LUTJANUS ARGENTIMACULATUS (Forskal) 



Sciaena argentimaculata Fobskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xi, 47. Arabia. — 

 BoNNATEREE, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 123 (Red Sea ) .— Walbaxtm, Artedi Pise, 

 vol. 3, 1792, p. 313 (on Foeskal). 



Diacope argentimaculata Cuvieb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 432 (copied). — 

 RiJppELL, Atlas Reise Nordl. Africa, Fische, 1828, p. 71, pi. 19, fig. 1 

 (north Red Sea). — Kossmann and Raube21, Wiss. Ergebn. Reise Kiis- 

 tengeb. Roth. Meers, 1877, p. 8. 



Mesoprion argent imaculatus GDnther, Cat. Fish Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 192 

 (copied). — Playtaib, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 849 (Seychelles). — 

 Klunzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 80, pt. 1, 1879, p. 341 

 (Port Darwin and Cleveland Bay) ; Fische Roth, Meer., 1884, p. 14. — 

 Weber, Zool. Ergebn. Reise Nederland. Ost. Indien, vol. 3, 1894, p. 407 

 (Amparang River south of Balanguipa, Celebes). 



Lutianus argentimaculatns Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 51, pi. 11, 

 fig. 5.— Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol, 25, 1905 (1906), p. 262 

 (Apia). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), 

 p. 257 (Calayan, Rio Baco and Iloilo). — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 42, 1912, p. 499 (Okinawa, Riu Kiu). — Malpas, Ceylon Administr. Report, 

 1921, pp. E5, E6, E7, E8. 



Lutjanus argenfimaculattcs Bleeker, Atlas Ichth, Ind. Neerland,, vol, 8, 1876- 

 1877, p. 74, pi. (46)324, fig. 3, pi, (55)333, fig, 1 (Sumatra, Pinang, 

 Singapore, Biliton, Java, Bali, Borneo, Celebes, Timor, Batjan, Ceram, 

 Amboina, Waigiu, New Guinea), — Day, Fishes of India, Suppl,, 1888, 

 p, 783 (note) ; Fauna Brit, India, Fishes, vol 1, 1889, p. 472.— Stein- 

 DACHNER, Abh. Senckenberg, Ges., vol. 25, 1900, p. 413 (Kau River, Hal- 

 maheira). — Pex,legrin, Annuario INIus. Zool. R. Universit. Napoli, n. s., 

 vol. 3, No. 27, July 11, 1912, p. 5 (Massaoua), — Pearson, Ceylon Administr. 

 Rep., 1912-1913, p. E 15 (Gulf of Manaar).— Southwell. Ceylon Ad- 

 ministr. Report, 1912-13, pp. E42, E44, E51 (Ceylon pearl banks).— 

 Beaufort, Bijd. Dierk., Amsterdam, pt, 19, 1913, No, 9, p. 117 (Batu Merah, 



