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Back and upper surface brown, below uniformly pale. Slightly 

 dark brown band from snout tip through eye and back to caudal base 

 little above middle. Above dark lateral band oblique slightly darker 

 lines following courses of scales and below as horizontal darker lines. 

 Iris whitish. Fins all pale brownish. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, India, Ceylon, Pinang, East Indies, 

 Philippines. A brilliant slender species, with very narrow pre- 

 orbital and scales extended forward toward front of the eyes. 



The Karooi of Russell is doubtless intended for this fish, though 

 the extremely small scales are shown on the head extending forward 

 on the preorbital and snout. Length 178 mm. Riippell's figure of 

 Diacope lineolata shows a very narrow preorbital, like Day's figures 

 of Lutianus lineolatus. Day examined two of the types of Serranu^ 

 nouleny and found them the same species. Valenciennes says they 

 were received from Leschenault, who gave the colors as golden 

 yellow, below rosy, head and paired fin reddish, caudal golden 

 yellow? Length 127 mm. 



Mesoprion argenteus as figured by Hombron and Jacquinot has 

 a truncate caudal. Predorsal scales shown extending forward to 

 middle of eye at best. Scales above lateral line irregular, apparently 

 intended as oblique rows, below horizontal. Preopercle edge with 

 slight notch, though no distinct knob. D. XI, 13. A. Ill, 8. Uni- 

 form silvery, back deeper. Fins yellowish, except grayish spinous 

 dorsal. Length 150 mm. 



5596, 5597. Batangas market. June 7, 1908. Length 182 to 208 mm. 



20573. Catbalogan, Samar. April 5, 1908. Length 120 mm. 



6712 to 6714. Catbalogan. April 16, 1908. Length 107 to 118 mm. 



18668, 18670 [1787]. Hinunangan Bay, Leyte. July 30, 1909. Length 98 t<> 

 103 mm. General color and stripes very similar, but latter more or bright 

 golden above lateral stripe ; fins similar in color but more of general body 

 tone and without white tips or margin in dorsal. 



20825. Lingayen Gulf, Luzon. May 11, 1909. Length 58 mm. 



7726, 7727. Manila market. March 20, 1908. Length 166 to 183 mm. 



11673 [1110], 14232, 14237. Mariveles Bay. January 30, 1909. Length 9<3 to 

 147 mm. [1104.] 6 examples. 



11812. Matnog Bay. May 31, 1909. Length 148 mm. 



6913, 6914, 6916. Tacloban market. July 25, 1909. Length 100 to 141 mm. 



18402, 18403. Tataan Island, Tawi Tawi. February 20, 1908. Length 120- 

 to 125 mm. 



A1102. Makyan Island, Dutch East Indies. November 28, 1909. Length 220 mm. 



12469. Powati Harbor, Makyan Island. November 28, 1909. Length 222 mm. 



11151. Hakuko, Soo Wan, Formosa. January 29, 1910. Length 133 mm. 



18425 to 18429. Nan Wan, Formosa. January 25, 1910. Length 133 to 150 mm. 



56223 U.S.N.M. Bulan. Bureau of Fisheries (3245). Length 150 mm. 



27580, 27581 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. 

 Length 135 to 165 mm. Brownish, w^ith narrow darker oblique lines extend- 

 ing up from lateral line to dorsal base till below soft dorsal region, after 

 which forking and extend parallel with those below, which longitudinal. 

 Pale brownish band through eye to caudal base rather broad. Fins mostly 



