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pale brown. Below broad lateral band narrow longitudinal lines of darker 

 color than general hue and parallel. As Lutio/nus nouleny. 

 47507 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. Length 

 162 mm. Type of Rhomboplitoides megalops. 



LUTJANUS LUTJANUS Bloch 



IjUtjanus lutjanus Bloch, Naturg, Ausland. Fische, vol. 4, 1790, p. 107. Japan — 

 Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 678 (on Bloch). — Forster, Fauna 

 Indica, 1795, p. 16.— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, 

 pi. (36) 314, fig. 3; vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 52 (Sumatra, Singapore, Banka, 

 Java, Duizend Islands, Bawean, Bali, Celebes, Ceram, Amboina, Waigiu?). — 

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

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



Lutianus lutiamis Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, vol. 4, 1790, pi. 245. — 

 Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 324 (Seas of Japan). 



MesopHon lutjanus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 479 (compiled). — 

 Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 37 (Java). — Playfair, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Loudon, 1867, p. 849 (Seychelles). 



Mesoprion olivaceus Cxjvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 478. Waigiu. 



Mesoprion madras Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 446. Sey- 

 chelles, Mahe. — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 200 (com- 

 piled). — Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 14 (compiled). — Schmeltz, Cat. 

 Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 4, 1869, p. 13 (Pelew Islands). 



Lutianus madras Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 47, pi. 14, fig. 3. — Fowler, 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 524 (Padang). — 

 Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rept., 1915-18, pp. F16, F17. — Jordan and 

 Starks, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, Nos. 3-4, 1917, p. 449 (Ceylon). — 

 Malpas, Ceylon Administr. Rept., 1921, pp. E5-E7. — Pearson, Ceylon 

 Administr. Rept., 1922, p. F6. 



Lutjanus madras Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1881, p. 480. — 

 Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 89, pi. 12, fig. 4 (type). — 

 Pellexjrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 30, 1905, p. 85 (Bale d' Along, 

 Tonkin). — Pillay, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, No. 2, Feb. 15, 

 1929, p. 365 (Travancore). 



Litianus lunulatus (not Park) Evermann and Sealb, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 

 26, 1906 (1907), p. 80 (Bacon). 



Depth 2% to 3 ; head 23/5 to 2%, width 21/8 to 2%. Snout 3% to 

 3% in head from snout tip ; eye 3I/2 to 3%, 1 to 1 ^V in snout, greater 

 than interorbital ; maxillary reaches 14 to l^ in eye, expansion 2y^ 

 to 21/^ in eye, length 2% to 2i/^ in head from snout tip; bands of 

 villiform teeth in jaws, with outer row enlarged of which upper 

 pair of wide set canines and 2 or 3 laterals below; cross like band 

 of villiform teeth on vomer, narrow simple band on each palatine 

 and two broad bands on tongue; interorbital 4% to 4%, slightly 

 convex ; preopercle edge minutely serrate, scarcely emarginate below. 

 Gill rakers 6+15, of which 4 above and 3 below rudiments, others 

 % of eye and lanceolate. 



Scales 47 to 49 in lateral line to caudal base and 7 more on latter ; 

 7 scales above lateral line, 13 below, 20 predorsal forward opposite 

 eye center of which 12 forward to occiput, 7 rows on cheek of which 

 1 on preopercle flange. Suprascapula denticulate. Scales with 10 to 



