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13 basal radiating striae ; apical denticles 58 to 72 with 2 transverse 

 series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. X, 13, I, third spine 2% to 2% in total head length, first ray 

 23/4 to 3; A. Ill, 8, i, third spine 23/5 to 3, first ray 2% to 23^; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 314; caudal 1 to 1%, emarginate; pec- 

 toral 11/4 to 11/3; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Light brown generally, back little more olivaceous, with dark 

 streaks obliquely above lateral line following in middle of each 

 scale row; below in horizontal rows. Lower surfaces silvery white. 

 Iris light yellowish. Fins all pale brown. 



Seychelles, Ceylon, East Indies, Tonkin, Japan, Micronesia. Allied 

 with Lutjanus vitta^ but without the dark lateral band of that species. 

 From Lutjanus lineolatus it is distinguished by the broader pre- 

 orbital. 



Mesoprion olivaceus Cuvier is noticed : D. X, 13. A. Ill, 8. Snout 

 short. Preopercle finely denticulated. Olivaceous, yellowish below. 



Mesoprion viadras Valenciennes is also briefly noticed : Preopercle 

 denticles feeble. Sixty rows of scales between eye and caudal. D. X, 

 13. A. Ill, 9. Yellow, tinted rose. Head and opercles red. Fins 

 yellow. Ventral paler than others. Length 305 mm. 



13187. Iloilo market. June 1, 1908. Length 147 mm. 



7139 to 7141. Inamucan Bay, Mindanao. August 8, 1909. Length 142 to 162 mm. 



5874. Malebang, Mindanao. May 22, 1908. Length 260 mm. 



14231. Mariveles wharf. January 30, 1909. Length 121 mm. 



9198, 12584. Opol, Mindanao. August 4, 1909. Length 182 to 202 mm. 



18702. Port Jamelo. July 13, 1908. Length 163 mm. 



AllOl, Alios, A1104. Makyan Island. November 28, 1909. Length 229 to 235 

 mm. 



56129 U.S.N.M. Bacon, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3309). Length 

 174 mm. As Lutianus lunulatus. Predorsal scales extend forward opposite 

 middle of eye. 



27575 to 27578 A. N. S. P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. 

 Hiller. Length 106 to 108 mm. When fresh in arrack pale pink or rosy, 

 fins sulphur yellow. Pale olive sulphur baud from eye along side, crosses 

 lateral line and extends along upper side of caudal peduncle to base of upper 

 caudal lobe. Scales above lateral line with narrow dull olive lines obliquely 

 up to bases of dorsals. Similar narrow, longitudinal streaks, paler and more 

 yellowish below lateral line, extend from head to caudal. Cheek somewhat 

 rosy. Iris pale orange. Peritoneum silvery. As Lutianus madras. 



LUTJANUS LINEATUS (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Diacope Uneata Quoy and Gaimaed, Voy. Uranie, Zool., 1824, p. 309. Rawak ; 

 Waigiu. — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 101 (types). 



Mesoprion lineatus Gunthee, Oat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 193 (com- 

 piled). — Kaeoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 151 (Sing- 

 apore; Palaboen, Java). — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, 

 vol. 14, 1885, p. 10 (North Celebes). 



Lutjanus lineatus Bleekeb, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, pi. 

 (26) 304, fig. 4; vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 8 (Sumatra, Singapore, Java, Celebes, 

 Timor, Batjan, Burn, Ceram, Amboiua, Obi Major, Waigiu). — Fowleb, 



