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Lutianus chrysotaenia Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 36, pi. 11, fig. 3 

 (Amboina; Nicobars), p. 41 (in footnote on Guntheb's record). — Weser, 

 Semon's Zool. Forsch. Reis. Austral., vol. 5, 1895, p. 263 (Thursday Island).— 

 MoCuLLOCH, Biol. Res. Endeavor, vol. 3, pt. 3, 1915, p. 141 (North Reef. 

 Masthead Island, Broome). 



Lutja/nus chrysotaenia Bt^eker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, 

 pi. (24) 302, fig. 4; vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 50 (Sumatra, Nias, Singapore, Bin- 

 tang, Banka, Biliton, Java, Bali, Celebes, Timor, Batjan, Obi, Amboina). — 

 Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 470. — Weber, Siboga Exp., 

 vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 247 (Macassar; Buka Bay, Rotti). — Fowler, Mem. 

 Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 196 (compiled). 



Mesoprion quinqueUneatus (not Bloch) Gu^nther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 

 1859, p. 209 (no locality). 



Lutianus quinqueUneatus Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 

 1907 (1908), p. 258 (Manila; Aparri). 



Lutianus russelli (not Bleeker) Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 

 1906 (1907), p. 20 (Cavite). 



Lutianus orientalis Seaxe, Philippine Joum. Sci., vol. 4, No. 6, Nov. 1909, p. 513. 

 Limbones Cove, Luzon ; Balabac Island. 



Depth 2% to 21/2; head 2% to 2%, width 214 to 21/2. Snout 

 2% to 3 in head; eye 4 to 5, 1% to II/2 in snout, little greater than 

 interorbital in young to equal to interorbital with age; maxillary 

 reaches % to i/^ in eye, expansion 1% to 2 in eye, length 2^^ to 21/^ 

 in head; teeth in narrow villiform bands in jaws, with outer row of 

 enlarged conic teeth, as large pair of wide set canines above and 2 

 or 3 on each mandibular ramus; band of fine villiform teeth on 

 vomer, palatines and tongue, on first in broadly crescentic patch with 

 median backward projection; interorbital 4% to 5, broadly convex; 

 preopercle edge with obsolete or feeble denticles and broad shallow 

 emargination below. Gill rakers 6 + 13, of which 5 as rudiments 

 both above and below^, longest greater than gill filaments or 1 to 1% 

 in eye. 



Scales 48 or 49 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 to T more on 

 latter; 11 or 12 scales above lateral line, 17 or 18 below, 17 predorsal 

 scales to occiput and 14 to 16 forward opposite front pupil edge; 

 cheek scales as 6 + 9 + 2 or 3, first as suborbital patch, then broad 

 scaly area to preopercle ridge and others on preopercle flange. 

 Suprescapula entire. Scales with 10 to 18 basal radiating striae; 

 apical denticles 60 to 83, small, with 5 to 10 transverse series of basal 

 elements ; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 15, I or 14, I, fourth spine 3 to 3% in head, fourth ray 3 to 

 31/2 ; A. Ill, 9, 1 or 10, i, third spine 3% to 41/2, second ray 23/5 to 2% ; 

 caudal 1% to I14, moderately emarginate; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2ys to 3 ; pectoral ll^ to 1% ; ventral 1% to 1%- 



Olive brown generally, paler to whitish below. Two dark longi- 

 tudinal bands, narrow at first and gradually broadening behind, 

 extend from upper hind eye edge to base of soft dorsal ; third band 

 broader, from hind eye edge, largely axial and back toward base of 

 upper caudal lobe. Fins all pale brown. Peitoral axil above with 



