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D. X, 13, I, third spine 2% in head, first ray 2%; A. Ill, 8, i, 

 second spine SYq, first ray 2%; caudal 1^3, emarginate; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 3% ; pectoral 11^4 ; ventral 1%. 



Brown generally, below whitish. Caudal with deep, dusky cres- 

 cent bent back on fin base. 



India, East Indies, Philippines. A small species, known chiefly 

 by the dark crescent in the caudal fin. Day says it reaches 255 mm. 



Diacope hitaeniata Valenciennes is described: With oblique rows 

 of scales above the lateral line and horizontal rows below; two red 

 lines on cheek below and transverse black band on middle of caudal; 

 body yellowish, with silvery reflections; head brown above; dorsal 

 red, spinous fin bordered red brown and soft fin greenish; anal 

 yellow, with red on spines; ventral yellow. 



27583 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. Length 

 183 mm. When fresh in arrack brown, back with pale and darker oblique 

 lines sloping up to base of upper profile from lateral line and below paler, 

 fading below and extending horizontally. Caudal with deep brownish black 

 crescent bent back on fin base and extending up to tips above and below. 

 Pectoral axil pale. Fins otherwise pale brown. 



LUTJANUS FLAVIPES (Valenciennes) 



Diacope flampes Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 534. • Vanicolo. 

 Lutjanus flampes Bleekee, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 8, 187&-1877, p. 



68, pi. (53) 331, fig. 5 ( Amboina ) .— Fowleb, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 



1928, p. 200 (compiled). 

 Diacope analis (not Mesoprion analis Cwier 1828) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 



Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 534. Mauritius; New Guinea. — Guichenot, Notes 



lie Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 23. — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 



1891, p. 103, pi. 13, figs. 2, a-G (types; Madagascar). 

 Diacope aurantiaca Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 536. 



Vanicolo. 

 Lufianus aurantiacus Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, Oct. 



1927, p. 657 (Natal). 



Depth 21/2 to 23^ ; head 2% to 2%, width 21/2 to 3. Snout 3 to 

 31/^ in head; eye 3% to 4%, l^s to li/4 in snout, greater than inter- 

 orbital ; maxillary reaches % to % in eye, expansion 1% to 2 in eye ; 

 teeth in villiform bands in jaws, outer row in each enlarged, pair 

 of front canines in front of upper jaw, also 8 outer front lower teeth 

 and 2 on each side of mandible moderately large ; band of fine villi- 

 form teeth across vomer and on each palatine; interorbital 4% to 

 5%, very slightly convex; preopercle edge denticulate, but slight 

 emargination above angle. Gill rakers 6+12, several above and 

 below as rudiments, lanceolate, equal gill filaments or i^ of eye. 



Scales 60 or 62 along above lateral line to caudal base and 9 or 



10 more on latter; tubular scales 46 to 50 in lateral line to caudal 

 base and 5 to 8 more on latter; 8 scales above lateral line, 17 to 19 

 below, 15 to 17 predorsal to occiput, 7 rows on cheek. Scales with 



11 to 13 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 50 to 60 minute 



