150 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Lutjanus vaigiensis but with longer snout and upper front profile 

 usually little convex, also back more elevated. My examples agree 

 well with Bleeker's figure. 



Lutianus nigricauda is apparently a synonym. It is noted with: 

 Depth 31/2 in total length; head 31/2. Snout equals orbit, 31/2 in 

 head ; preopercle finely serrated, moderate notch above angle ; inter- 

 orbital 51/2 in head. Scales 48. D. X, 15. A. Ill, 8. Caudal 

 well emarginate. Yellowish gray. Caudal nearly black, with very 

 narrow white edge. Soft dorsal webs and of spinous dorsal behind 

 first two spines broadly edged black, extreme edging pale. Length 

 102 mm. 



15491. Butauauan Island. June 15, 1909. Length 229 mm. 



8267. Canmaliala Bay, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 11, 1909. Length 279 mm. 

 Dusky orange stripes following scale rows, formed by short stripe through 

 center of each scale; stripes below lateral line widest and nearly % of 

 each scale depth, above lateral line >4=. not regular or sometimes mark at 

 corner of scale ; stripes obscure or cease below middle of pectoral base. 

 Two short waved stripes on preorbital obliquely downward from eye; an- 

 other along middle of cheek, almost parallel to first from about even with 

 hind eye edge to middle of maxillary, brown dots above and below. No 

 spots on top of head, but some before nostril. On scales of head markings 

 become stripes, not following scales; about 5 stripes between even with 

 lower edge of eye and upper corner of tip of maxillary ; few scattered spots 

 below and few between main stripes. Two or 3 irregular stripes behind 

 eye, general shades dark olive, become somewhat reddish on fading; lower 

 portions rather white or silvery. Dorsal like body color at base, becomes 

 rich red brown toward top ; front edge of soft dorsal white. Anal like soft 

 dorsal but paler. Caudal reddish brown, with white edge on inner half of 

 fork. Pectoral axils slightly dusky. 



27596 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H, L, Hiller. Length 

 186 mm. Type of Lutianus furvicaudatus. 



27584 to 27585 A,N,S,P. Padang. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. Length 

 197 to 200 mm. When fresh in arrack dull olivaceous above, below rosy,, 

 though not rosy on sides which paler than back. Narrow dark brownish 

 olive lines obliquely up from lateral line to dorsal profile and below some- 

 what gilded oUve horizontal lines, becoming brighter on abdomen. Soft 

 dorsal edge deep brown, basal portion pale brown. Spinous dorsal dusky 

 marginally, otherwise pale brown. Anal broadly pale brown on outer rayed 

 portion, basally pale yellowish. Caudal deep brown,^ narrowly edged whit- 

 ish. Paired fins yellowish, pectoral with little dusky and ventral pale 

 orange basally. 



Subgenus Diacope Cuvier 



Preopercle with distinct notch, often very deep and interopercle 

 armed with strong spur. Scales above lateral line in oblique or 

 partly oblique rows. Predorsal scales forward into interorbital. 



LUTJANUS RUFOLINEATUS (Valenciennes) 



Diacope rufolineata Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 531. New 

 Guinea. 



