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width of pupil parallel to first, begin at nose and pass directly across head 

 under eye above pectoral base; second from mouth corner mostly through 

 lower pectoral base to about axil of anal. Markings of dorsal and anal at 

 dark borders. Caudal blackish, with pale margin. Olive brownish of back 

 and top of head ceases sharply about level of top of caudal peduncle, leaving 

 pale streak between to lateral band. Paired tins more or less orange. 



LUTJANUS MONOSTIGMA (Cuvier) 



Mesoprion monostigma Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828. p. 446. Sey- 

 chelles. — GtJNTHEB, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1873, p. 14, pi. 16 

 (Kingsmills, Society Islands, Paumotus).— Pohl, Cat. Mus. GodefEroy, 

 No. 9, 1884, p. 26 (Mortlock Island). 



Diacope monostigma Klunzinger, Verb. zool. bot. Ges. Wieu, vol. 20, 1870, 

 p. 702 (Koseir, Red Sea). 



Lutjamis monostigma Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar. 1891, p. 86. — Beaufort, 

 Bijd. Dierk., Amsterdam, pt. 19, 1913, No. 9, p. 117 (Saonek and Batu 

 merah, Ambon). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 25 (Labuan 

 Badjo. Flores; Beo, Karakelang Island; Lining; Salibabu). — Fowlee, 

 Bull, Bisliop Mus., No. 22, 1925, p. 9 (Guam).— Fowler and Ball, Bull. 

 Bishop Mus., No. 26, 1925, p. 14 (Wake Island).— Fowler, Bull. Bishop 

 Mus., No. 38, 1927, p. 15 (Palmyra, Washington, Jarvis, Baker Islands) ; 

 Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 202, pi. 18B (Fate, Tubuai, Shortland, 

 Nukuhiva, Guam, Rarotonga, Palmyra, Wake, New Guinea, Apia, Makemo, 

 Makatea, Taritari, Anaa, Moen) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, 

 p. 636 (Palmyra, Rarotonga, Fate, Shortland Island, Padang). 



Lutianus monostigma Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 

 (1906), p. 264 (Apia; Pago Pago). — Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur, 

 Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 79 (Bacon).— Seale and Bean, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 1907, p. 243 (Zamboanga). — Kendall and Goldsborough. 

 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 26, 1911, p. 287 (Paumotus; Truk; Gilberts).— 

 Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, No. 1, 1914, p. 66 (Hong Kong). 



Lutjanus lioglossus Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam (Lutjan.), vol. 13, 

 No. 4, 1873, p. 74 (Bintang, Java, Celebes. Halmaheira, Amboina) ; Atlas 

 Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 70, pi. (66)344, fig. 4 (Bintang, 

 Java, Celebes. Halmaheira, Amboiua). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, FLshes, 

 vol, 1, 1889, p. 473. — Steindachner, Abh. Senckenberg. Ges., vol. 25, 1900, 

 p. 415 (Batjau). — Borsieri, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, vol. 41, 

 1904, p. 193 (Massaua). 



iMtianus lioglossu,s Day, Fishes of India, pt., 1, 1875, p. 39, pi. 12, fig. 1. — 

 FowLEK, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 525 

 (Padang).— Sntdee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 479 (Okin- 

 awa). 



Mesoprion lioglossus Kluzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 14 (Koseir). 



Depth 2% to 3 ; head 2% to 2%, width 2% to 3. Snout 2 to 3 in 

 head from snout tip; eye 4 to 514, 1% to 2 in snout, greater than 

 interorbital in young to subequal or ll^ with age ; maxillary reaches 

 midway in eye in young, to front eye edge or 14 in eye with age, 

 expansion liA to 14^ in eye, length 2I/4 to 2% in head from snout 

 tip; lips moderate; band of villiform teeth in each jaw anteriorly, 

 with outer series conic and enlarged, at front above pair of well 

 developed canines and lower laterals all large; narrow crescentic 



