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Scales 65? along and above lateral line, 55? along and below 

 lateral line; 8 scales above lateral line to median dorsal spines, 25? 

 below to vent. 



D. X, 13, fifth spine 23/5 in total head length, fifth ray 21/8; A. 

 Ill, 10 (8 or 9 in description), second spine 2%, first ray 2%; 

 caudal 1%, truncate; least depth of caudal peduncle 3; pectoral 

 12/3 ; ventral 1%. 



Back olive, below pale bluish. Black band from middle of snout, 

 through eye where wide as pupil, expanding on side of body nearly 

 wide as eye and narrowing on caudal peduncle out over middle of 

 caudal. Second blackish band from maxillary crosses below pectoral 

 base back to lower surface of caudal peduncle. Fins yellowish. 

 Length 74 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Ceylon, East Indies. The type, described by Day, was 103 mm. 

 long. The species is well characterized by its two black longitudinal 

 bands, one axial and the other inferior. 



Subgenus Lutjanus Bloch 



Preopercle without or only slight notch above angle and inter- 

 opercle spine feeble or absent. Scales above lateral line in oblique 

 or partly oblique rows. Predorsal scales forward into interorbital. 



LUTJANUS BIGUTTATUS (Valenciennes) 



Serranus Mguttatus "Vaij;nciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 507. Trin- 

 quemale, Ceylon ; Amboina. — Gunthek, Cat. Fish Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, 

 p. 155 (compiled). 



Lutianus biguttatus Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 34, pi. 10, fig. 6 

 (type). — Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, 

 p. 524 (Padang). 



Lutjanus Mguttatus Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 469. — 

 Bleeiveb, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 54, pi. (60) 338, 

 fig. 5 (Sumatra, Nias, Java, Bali, Celebes, Sumbawa, Halmaheira, Ternate, 

 Batjan, Amboina). — Beaufort, Bijd. Dierk., Amsterdam, pt. 19, 1913, No. 

 9, p. 116 (Majalibit Bay, Waigiu ; Batumerah, Amboina). — Webee, Siboga 

 Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 248 (Labuan Tring, Lombok ; Makassar). — 

 FowxER, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 197 (compiled) ; Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 636 (Padang). 



Mesoprion Uneolatus (not Rijppell) Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Perc), 

 vol. 22, 1849, p. 46 (Batavia). 



Mesoprion elongatus Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Astrolabe et Z614e. Zool. 

 3, Poiss., 1853, p. 38, pi. 2, fig. 3. No locality. 



Mesoprion IJeekeri Guntheb, Cat. Fish, Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 208. Am- 

 boyna. — Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 680 (Andamans). — 

 Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 7, 1879, p. 38 (Samoa) ; No. 8, 1881, 

 p. 5 (Samoa).— PoHL, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, 1884, p. 26 (Samoa). 



Depth 31/5 to 31/2 ; head 21/2 to 24^, width 21/5 to 23/5. Snout 31/3 to 

 3% in head from snout tip ; eye 3 to 414, 1 to 1% in snout, greater 

 than interorbital in young to equal with age ; maxillary reaches 14 ^^ 



