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Lutianus caeruJeo-punctatus Fowlee, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 



2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 525 (Padang). 

 Diacope alboguttata Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 445. 



Malabar; Bombay. — Guichenot, Notes He Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 23. 

 Oenyoroge alboffuttata Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 9 (copied). 

 Mesoprion myriaster Li^nard, Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Maurice, 1839, p. 32. 



Mauritius. 

 Diacope sinal THiOLLifeEE, Fauna Woodlark, 1857, p. 145. Woodlark Island. 

 Mesoprion guadripunctatus (Frank) Guntheb, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 



1859, p. 183. Amboyna. (Name in text.) 

 Mesoprion parvidens Macleat, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South "Wales, vol. 7, 1882, 



p. 234. New Guinea. 

 Mesoprion obscurus (DooEKLEaN) Steindachneb and Doderleun, Denkschr. 



Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-nat. Klasse, vol. 47, pt. 1, 1883, p. 236 (nama 



in text). 



Depth 2 to 21^ ; head 21/3 to 21/2, width 1% to 214. Snout 22/5 to 

 3 in head; eye 4i/^ to 7%, 1% to 3 in snout, 1 to 2 in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches eye, expansion 1 to 1% in eye, length 2y^ to 2% 

 in head; lips moderate, coriaceous; teeth villiform, in bands in 

 jaws, with outer enlarged and slightly conic row, of which several 

 in front of each jaw and one usually in each jaw medio-laterally as 

 slight canines ; crescentic band of villiform teeth on vomer and short 

 patch on each palatine; interorbital Z% to 5 in head, moderately 

 convex; hind preopercle edge serrate, with slight gash above angle 

 opposite moderate opercular knob. Gill rakers 6 + 13, lanceolate, 

 equal gill filaments or % of eye. 



Scales 40 to 47 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 or 11 more on 

 latter; 8 or 9 scales above lateral line, 17 below, 11 to 13 predorsal, 

 6 or 7 rows across cheek to preopercle ridge angle. Scales with 13 

 basal radiating striae ; apical denticles 82 to 106, with 7 to 15 trans- 

 verse series or basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. X, 15, I, third spine 2% to 2% in head, fourth ray 21/3 to 21/2 ; 

 A. Ill, 8, 1, third spine 31/3 to 31/5, fourth ray 2 to 21/3 ; caudal 11/3 to 

 1%, little emarginate behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 

 31/8; pectoral 1^^ to li/s; ventral 11/2 to 1%. 



Back drab brown, shading paler on sides below to whitish on 

 under surface. Pearl white spot opposite soft dorsal origin on 

 lateral line about three scale exposures. Each scale on back and 

 sides with gray or gray blue dot, above lateral line following in 

 oblique rows and below in horizontal rows; dots also extend on 

 basal scales of dorsals and caudal, though much smaller and more 

 crowded. Side of head with longitudinal gray or bluish lines, each 

 bordered narrowly with deeper gray, often broken as bars, blotches 

 or spots and very variable; lines form bands across front of head 

 or at least five across interorbital space. Fins all dull brownish. 

 Iris yellowish brown. 



