FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 153 

 LUTJANUS DUODECIM liNEATUS (Valenciennes) 



Diacope duodedm lineata Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 



529. Mauritius. — Guichenot, Notes He Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 23. 

 Diacope duodecim-lineata Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 



96, pi. 13, figs. 3, a-c (type). 

 Lutianus duodecimlineatus Barnard, Aun. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, 



Oct. 1927, p. 653 (Natal). 

 .*• Labrus octovittatus (Commerson) Lac£pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, 



pp. 430, 477, pi. 22, fig. 2. Grand Ocean (Indo Pacific). 

 Lutjanus octovittatus Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, 



vol. 3, 1862, p. 70 (Bourbon) ; Recherche Faune Madagascar, Pollen et 



Van Dam, pt. 4, 1874, p. 27, pi. 9, fig. 1. 

 Lutianus quinquelinearis (not Bloch) Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South 



Afric. Mus., vol. 13, 1914, p. 65. 



Depth 2%; head 2%. Snout 3% in head from upper jaw tip; eye 

 3^, 1% in snout ; maxillary reaches eye, expansion 214 in eye, length 

 24^ in head from snout tip; teeth very strong, triangular band on 

 vomer, none on tongue; interorbital low; preopercle edge denticu- 

 late, deeply notched to receive strong bony knob or spine on inter- 

 opercle. 



Scales 52 in lateral line, 9 above, 17 below. D. XI, 13, fourth spine 

 2% in total head length, first ray 4; A. Ill, 8, second spine 3, first 

 ray 2%; caudal 1%, slightly emarginate behind; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 314 ; pectoral II/5 ; ventral 214. Lilac, with 6 nar- 

 row gray or blue bands, all beginning behind head, inclined upward 

 to base of dorsal fins and 2 lowest less inclined. Length 215 mm, 

 (Sauvage.) 



Madagascar. According to Barnard lower gill rakers 12 or 13, 

 color orange yellow with 6 lilac or blue streaks and reach up to 

 300 mm. Distinguished from Lutjanus hasTnira by the narrow blue 

 streaks, the upper radiating from the head. 



The crude figure of Labrus octovittatus differs at once from 

 Bleeker's figure of Lutjanus octovittatus and that of Sauvage rep- 

 resenting Diacope duodeciTn-lineata in that the dark bands on the 

 upper part of the body, but 4 in number and inclined, also all 

 above the median axis of the body, all begin in the head. 



LUTJANUS SPILURUS (Bennett) 



Diacope spUura Benneht, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1832, p. 182. Ceylon Sea. 



Oenyoroge spilura Gijnthee, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 504 (copied). 



Holocentrus quinquelineatus (part) Block, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, vol. 4, 

 1790, p. 94. 



Mesoprion quinquelineatus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 442 (Java). — 

 GiJNTHEai, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 206 (part). — Macleay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, 1882, p. 232 (New Guinea).— 

 Elera, Cat. Fauna, Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 460 (Cebu). 



