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Mesoprion immaculatus Cuvier, Hist. Nat, Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 471. Sumatra. 

 Diacope xantJiopus Cuviee, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1829, p. 495. Trinquemale, 



Ceylon. 

 Diacope axillaris Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 532. East 



Indies; Vanicolo. 

 Mesoprion caudaUs Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 537. Van- 

 icolo. — GtJNTHEE, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 191 (copied). 

 Lutjanus caudalis Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 202 (copied). 

 Diacope calveti (not Quoy and Gaimard) Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 



pt. 1, 1842, p. 14 (Nagasaki). 

 Mesoprion gaimardi Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. NSerland. (Enumerat.), vol. 6, 



1859, p. 23. Walgiu, 

 Mesoprion ruhens Macleay, Proe. Linn. Soc. Nevp South Wales, vol. 7, 1882, 



p. 232. New Guinea. 

 Lutjanus rubens Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 201 (compiled). 

 Mesoprion marginipinnis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 8, 



1883, p. 254. Normanby Island, in fresh water, New Guinea. 

 Mesoprion kagoshimana (Doderlein) Steindachner and Doderlein, Denkschr. 



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



shima. (Name in text.) 

 Mesoprion mahogoni (not Cuvier) Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, 



vol. 14, 1885, p. 11 (Macassar, South Celebes). 

 Lutianus marginatoides Kendall and Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 



vol. 26, 1911, p. 287, pi. 4, fig. 1. Makemo, Paumotus Islands. 



Depth 21/4 to 24/^ ; head 22^ to 23/5, width 2 to 23/5. Snout 2% to 3 

 in head ; eye 4 to 4%, 1 to 1% in snout, greater than interorbital in 

 young to 1% with age ; maxillary reaches % to % in eye, expansion 

 1% to 2% in eye, length 2i/^ to 2% in head ; lips rather narrow ; teeth 

 in rather narrow villiform bands in jaws, with outer row moderately 

 enlarged, usually pair of small canines in front above; crescentic 

 band of villiform teeth on vomer and another on each palatine; 

 interorbital 3% to 51/^, convex; hind preopercle edge minutely ser- 

 rated, with gash above angle with age receiving moderate bony inter- 

 opercle knob. Gill rakers 6 or 7 + 10 or 11, lanceolate, equal gill 

 filaments or 2y^ to 3 in eye. 



Scales 46 to 48 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 or 5 more on 

 latter; 8 or 9 scales above lateral line, 14 or 15 below, 12 or 13 pre- 

 dorsal to occiput, 7 rows across cheek to angle of preopercle ridge. 

 Scales with 12 to 16 basal radiating striae ; apical denticles 97 to 118, 

 with 5 to 9 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 14, I, fourth spine 24^^ to 2% in head, seventh ray 3 to 3% ; 

 A. Ill, 7, 1 or 8, 1, second spine 3 to 3%, third ray 2% to 2% ; caudal 

 1% to 114, moderately emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 3 to 314 ; pectoral li/g to 1% ; ventral 1% to 2. 



Back and upper surface brown, under sides paler and below 

 whitish. Iris orange brown or yellow. Dorsals brown like back, 

 also caudal and both soft dorsal and caudal narrowly edged with 

 whitish, though these fins often deep drab dusky terminally to 

 narrow white edge. Other fins all paler brown. 



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