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interorbital in young, subequal with age; maxillary reaches eye in 

 young to 1/5 in eye with age, expansion 1% to 1% in eye, length 2i/^ 

 to 2% in head; teeth villiform, in bands in jaws, with outer row 

 little enlarged and pair of canines in front of each jaw; band of 

 villiform teeth on vomer and on each palatine ; interorbital 5 to 5i/^, 

 slightly convex; hind preopercle edge minutely serrated. Gill 

 rakers 7+12, of which 5 or 6 above and below rudimentary, lance- 

 olate, little larger than gill filaments or 13^4 in eye. 



Scales 55 to 62 in lateral line to caudal base and 7 to 9 more on 

 latter ; tubular scales 46 or 47 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 or 

 6 more on latter; 7 or 8 scales above lateral line, 16 to 18 below, 15 

 to 18 predorsal, 8 rows on cheek. Suprascapula denticulate. Scales 

 with 9 or 10 basal radiating striae ; apical denticles 70 to 81, with 9 

 or 10 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 13, I, fourth spine 21/2 to 3 in head, first ray 3 to 31/2 ; A. 

 Ill, 8, I, second spine 3 to 33/5, first ray 23/5 to 22/3 ; caudal II/3 to 

 11/^, little emarginate behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 

 31/8 ; pectoral II/5 to ly^ ; ventral 1% to 2. 



Back brown, lower sides and under surface whitish. Seven deep 

 brown vertical bands on back, gradually narrowing to middle of 

 flanks where fading out. Large blackish blotch II/2 ^ye diameters 

 at caudal base and on adjacent caudal peduncle. Iris brownish. 

 Fins all brownish, lower ones whitish. 



East Indies, Melanesia, Polynesia. 



A1194. Doworra Island, Dutch East Indies. December 2, 1909. Length 

 262 mm. Shows trace of horizontal line under lateral line broken into 

 spots posteriorly, otherwise normal. 



A1228. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length 277 mm. 



A1181, 13271, 2096. Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. Length 

 158 to 262 mm. Bars reddish brown ; ground color olive gray ; preorbitals 

 slightly spotted with orange ; lower fins scarcely reddish ; dorsal body 

 color, tips pale orange and hyaline ; soft dorsal and caudal hyaline olive ; 

 in larger specimen orange of Bleeker's plate appears ; back clear light olive ; 

 blotch at tail black, without horizontal bars below. 



30559 U.S.N.M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length 229 mm. 



30560 U.S.N.M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length 233 mm. 



LUTJANUS DECUSSATUS (Cuvier) 



Mesoprion decussatus (Kuhi, and Van Hasselt) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 

 2, 1828, p. 487. Java.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 210 

 (Philippines, India, Amboina). — Knee, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 34. 

 (Java). — Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 680 (Andamans). — Meyb21, 

 Anal. Soc. Espaii. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 10 (North Celebes; 

 Macassar; Cebu). — Goegoza, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist, Nat, Madrid, vol. 17, 

 1888, p. 283 (Mindanao; Pasacao). 



Lutianus decussatus Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 47, pi. 14 fig. 4 

 (Andamans). — Thueston, Notes Pearl Fisher. Mauaar, 1890, p. 91 (Pam- 

 ban). — Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, 

 p. 525 (Padang).— Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 1905, 



