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20575, 20576. Catbalogan, Samar. April 15, 1908. Length 130 to 133 mm. 



6704, 6707 to 6710, 6931, 21222. Catbalogan. April 16, 1908. Length 82 to 

 186 mm. 



16305. Endeavor Strait, North West coast of Palawan. December 23, 1908. 

 Length 190 mm. 



6354, 6355, 7143, 11085, 11086. Inamucan Bay, Mindanao. August 8, 1909. 

 Length 175 to 212 mm. 



21169. Malcochin Harbor, Linapacan Island. December, 1908. Length 85 mm. 



12341, 12342, 16406, 16407, 19619, 19623. Mansalay, Mindoro. June 4, 1908. 

 Length 91 to 182 mm. 



16622, 16623. Maribojac Bay, Bohol. March 26, 1909. Length 145 to 156 mm. 



14235. Mariveles wharf. January 30, 1909. Length 80 mm. 



11813. Matnog Bay. May 31, 1909. Length 160 mm. 



16983, 16998, 17641. Mompog Island. March 3, 1909. Length 167 to 193 mm. 



18820. Pandanon Island. March 23, 1909. Length 198 mm. 



19484. Pangauran River, Port Caltom, Busuanga Island. December 16, 1908. 

 Length 64 mm. 



5908, 10632, 13131. Polloc, Mindanao. May 22, 1908. Length 148 to 185 mm. 



6503, 6505 to 6507, 14712. Port Caltom. December 15, 1908. Length 134 to 196 

 mm. 



5545. Rasa Island, Mantaquin Bay, Palawan. April 1, 1909. Length 213 mm. 



8277. San Miguel Island, Tabaco Bay. June 4, 1909. Length 160 mm. 



6699. Singaan Island, north of Tawi. September 21, 1909. Length 198 mm. 



19424. Sorsogon market. March 12, 1909. Length 128 mm. 



Four examples [144]. Tataan, Simalue Island. February 18, 1908. Length 

 133 to 170 mm. 



18404 to 18406. Tataan. February 20, 1908. Length 119 to 168 mm, 



9150, 19041, 19042. Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 23, 1908. Length 153 to 

 164 mm. 



A1158, 13264 to 13270. Gane Road, Gillolo Island, Dutch East Indies. Decem- 

 ber 1, 1909. Length 240 to 212 mm. 



5360. Bumbum Island. September 25, 1909. Length 169 mm. 



9987. Maitara Island. November 26, 1909. Length 220 mm. 



32728 U.S.N.M. Indian Archipelago. Royal Museum Leiden. Lengtli 173 mm. 



27610 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. Length 

 162 mm. When fresh in arrack dull gray above, sharply defined by dusky 

 longitudinal band extending from snout to caudal base. Below brownish 

 white, with faint dusky longitudinal band below pectoral. Oblique streaks 

 of dark gray up to upper profile whole course of lateral line. Two white 

 spots, with dusky edges, on upper back near middle of each dorsal. Fins 

 pale brown. Pectoral axil and outer bases of upper rays blackish brown. 

 Iris yellowish. 



LUTJANUS VITTA (Qnoy and Gaimard) 



Serranus vitta Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., December 18, 1824, pi. 

 58, fig. 3. Waigiu.— Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 239 

 (Waigiu) ; vol. 6, 1830, p. 505 (Tahiti; Waigiu).— Richardson, Ichth. 

 China Japan, 1846, p. 234 (Hong Kong). 



Diacope vitta Schlbgel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss, pt. 1, 1842, p. 13, pi. 6, fig. 4 

 (Nagasaki). 



Mesoprion vitta Gxjntheb, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 207 (China, 

 Hong Kong, Amboina, Moluccas, Louisiades, Port Essington). — Kneb, Reise 

 Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 37 (Java).— Playf air, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, 

 p. 18 (Seychelles) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 849 (Seychelles).— 



