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5992, Zamboanga market. May 26, 1908. Length 278 mm. Reddish shades 

 above, white below. Above brown line brownish anteriorly, yellow post- 

 eriorly, narrow oblique bronze lines on most of scales above. Paler horizon- 

 tal stripes below. Dorsal orange terminally, spine tips white, anteriorly 

 many of soft dorsal rays white, fin generally yellow. Caudal yellow, tipped 

 white. Pectoral pale yellow. Ventral i)ale, front and tip white. 



6017. Zamboanga market. May 27, 1908. Length 370 mm. Reddish above, 

 white below. Brown lateral band from eye to caudal peduncle. Yellow 

 oblique stripes above lateral line. Vertical fins yellow ; tips of dorsal spines 

 and upper edge of soft fin white ; first 4 anal rays with white edge. Pectoral 

 yellow, clear below, axil very slightly dusky. Ventral with pale tint. 



9389. Zamboanga market. September 7, 1909. Length 357 mm. 



6810. Knowloon market, China. September 19, 1909. Length 213 mm. 



56040 U.S.N.M. Bacon, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3785). Length 

 219 mm. As Lutimms furvicaudatus (not Fowler) Evermann and Seale, Bull. 

 Bur. Fisher., vol. 76, 1906 (1907), p. 80. Caudal base and adjacent region of 

 caudal peduncle evidently stained dusky. Evermann and Seale say " we 

 have examined Mr. Fowler's type " but surely could not have remembered 

 much to have placed this specimen with it ! 



56127 U.S.N.M. Bacon. Bureau of Fisheries (3718). Length 147 mm. 



56335. U.S.N.M. Cavite. Dr. G. A. Lung. Length 67 to 254 mm. 4 examples. 



28025 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns, Length 255 mm. 



71966 U.S.N.M. Nafa, Okinawa, Riu Kiu. Albatross Collection 1906. Length 

 78 to 185 mm. 5 examples. These with large black blotch on lateral line 

 size of eye, as in Lutjanus fulviflamma, also dark band through eye. 



72679 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 173 mm. 



75509 U.S.N.M. Wakanoura, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length 181 mm. 



75510 U.S.N.M. Nagasaki. Jordan and Snyder. Length 125 to 155 mm. 4 

 examples. 



76621 U.S.N.M. Takao, Formosa. Dr. F. Baker. Length 295 mm. 



84196 U.S.N.M. Cebu, Philippines. Dr. F. Baker. Length 223 mm. 



47640 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum, Philadelphia. Length 222 

 mm. 



27579 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. Length 

 223 mm. When fresh in arrack mostly pale pink, on back behind and caudal 

 peduncle. Dark or olive band, narrower than eye, from snout where hardly 

 defined, back across opercle, side of trimk and on caudal peduncle above 

 becoming merged in general tint of same region. Scales above lateral line 

 with narrow, oblique pale greenish lines to dorsal base. Similar narrow 

 longitudinal streaks, though paler, along side and lower surface of body 

 below lateral line from head to caudal. Cheek rosy. Belly and lower sur- 

 face of head whitish. Top of head and side above pale orange. Fins mostly 

 deep sulphur yellow. 



LUTJANUS CHRYSOTAENIA (Bleeker) 



Mesoprion chrysotaenia Bleetceb, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 2, 1851, 

 p. 170. Batavia. — Guntheb, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 192 

 (Batavia). — Kneb, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 34 (Singapore; Madras). — 

 Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 386 (Bangkok; Singapore). — 

 GiJNTHEai, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, pt. 6, 1880, p. 38 (Somerset, Cape 

 York). — Kaboli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 151 (Singa- 

 pore). — Metter, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 11 

 (Macassar, south Celebes). 



Mesoprion chrysotenia Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 370 (Queensland). 



