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32717 U.S.N.M. Indian Archipelago. Royal Leiden Museum. Length 138 mm. 

 As Jutjanus marginatus. 



41555 U.S.N.M. Samoa. Dr. C. H. White. Length 170 mm. As Lutjanus 

 margmatu.'i. 



One example (with 52421 U.S.N.M.). Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries, 

 Length 83 mm. 



57957 U.S.N.M. Philippines. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length 48 to 85 mm. 3 

 examples. As Lutjanus fnarginatus. 



27586 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. Length 

 249 mm. When fresh in arrack pale orange brown. Above lateral line a 

 number of oblique pale olive lines extending from lateral line to dorsal base, 

 those on caudal peduncle more or less horizontal. Fins brown, vertical 

 deeper and the upper edge of soft dorsal and hind caudal edge narrowly white. 



LUTJANUS LUNULATUS (Park) 



Perca lunulata Park, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 3, 1797, p. 37, pi. 6, 



Sumatra. 

 Lutianus lumdatus Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bioch, 1801, p. 329 (Sumatra). — 



Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 41, pi. 12, fig. 4 (Sind coast). — Fowleb, 



Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 525 (Padang). — 



BvEEMANN and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907) p. 80 



(Bulan). — Peabbon, Ceylon Administr. Report, 1915-18, p. F 15. 

 Lutjanus lunulatus LAcfipfioE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, p. 213 (on Park). — 



Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nfierland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, pi. (17) 295, fig. 1; 



vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 66 (Sumatra; Celebes ) .—Day, Fauna Brit. India, 



Fishes, vol. 1, 1888, p. 475. — Fowleb, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1929, p. 636 (Padang). 

 Lutjanus (Mesoprion) Innulatus Zugmayeb, Abhandl. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 



Math.-phys. Klasse, vol. 26, 1913, p. 10 (Mekran; Oman). 

 Mesoprion lunulatus Cuvieb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 477 (copied). 

 Diacope 'bitaeniata Vaxenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 536. 



Celebes. — Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 3, 1834, p. 664, 



pi. 5, fig. 2. 

 Mesoprion Mtaeniatus GItntheb, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 191 



(copied). — ScHMELTZ, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 1, 1864, p. 7 (East Indies) ; 



No. 2, 1865, p. 6 (East Indies) ; No. 3, 1866, p. 7 (East Indies). 



Depth 24^; head 2%, width 2%. Snout 2% in head from snout 

 tip; eye 414, 1% in snout, greater than interorbital ; maxillary- 

 reaches eye, expansion 1% in eye, length 2% in head; narrow band 

 of villiform teeth in jaws, outer series enlarged with pair of wide 

 set canines in front above and several enlarged teeth along sides of 

 mandible; broadly angular band of villiform teeth on vomer, small 

 band on palatines and 2 rounded patches on tongue; interorbital 

 5%, broadly convex; hind preopercle edge finely denticulate, with 

 slight emargination below and few denticles, coarser, around angle. 

 Gill rakers 1 + 7, with 4 rudiments above and five below, lanceolate, 

 much greater than gill filaments or 1^ of eye. 



Scales 52 in lateral line along below to caudal base; 8 above, 15 

 below, 15 predorsal; 50 pores in lateral line to caudal base. Scales 

 with 10 to 12 basal radiating striae; 60 to 65 apical denticles, with 5 

 to 10 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



