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Lutianus quinquelineatus Pay, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 40, pi. 12, fig. 3 

 (Block's example examined; Andamans). — Bryan and He^ieb, Occas, 

 Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 2, No. 1, 1902(1903), p. 130 (Marcus Island).— 

 Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906(1907), p. 20 (Cavite).— 

 EvEEMANN and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 79 (Bulan; 

 Bacon).— Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 499 (Okinawa).— 

 Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Report, 1915-1918, p. F18. 



lAitjanus quinquelineatus Bleieker, Rech. Faune Madagascar, Pollen et Van 

 Dam, pt. 4, 1874, p. 33, pi. 16, fig. 3 (Bourbon) ; Atlas Ichth, Ind. N6er- 

 land., vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 56, pi. 65(343), fig. 4 (Sumatra, Nias, Cocos, 

 Java, Duizend Islands, Bawean, Bali, Flores, Timor, Celebes, Halmaheira, 

 Ternate, Batjan, Burou, Ceram, Amboina, Banda, New Guinea). — Tirant, 

 Service Oceanogr. Peches Indo Chine, 6^ Note, 1929, p. 168 (Phu-Yen). 



Diacope coentleo-Uneata RiippExx, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 93. Massaua 

 and Djedda. 



Diacope coeruleolineata Ruppei-l, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, pi. 24, fig. 3. 



Diacope coeruleolineatus Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, 

 p. 701 (Massaua; Djedda). 



Mesoprion coeruleolineata Klunzinger, Fische Both. Meer., 1884, p. 15. 



Lutjamis oaeruleolineata Day, Fishes of India, Suppl., 1888, p. 783 (note). 



Lutjanus caeruleolineatus Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 2, 1898, p. 474. 



Lutjanus (Mesoprion) caeruleolineatus Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien, Math.-nat. Klasse, vol. 71, pt. 1, 1907, p. 128 (Gischin, Makalla, 

 Tamarida). — Zugmayer, Abhandl. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-physik. 

 Klasse, vol. 26, 1913, p. 10 (Oman). 



Genyoroiie notala var. sullineata De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 9, 1885, p. 391. Oardwell. 



Genyoroge notata var. sexlineata Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 370 

 (Queensland) (lapsus). 



EvopUtes decemlineatus (not Valenciennes) Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 524 (Padang). 



lACtjanus kasmira (not Forskal) Fowler, Bull. Bishop. Mus., No. 22, 1925, 

 p. 9 (Guam) ; Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 195 (New Guinea; Fiji: 

 Magdalene and Tempe, Marquesas Islands; Apia; Tahiti; Marcus Island; 

 Apang; Society Islands; Ebon Island; Meos Boendi, Wiak Island, New 

 Guinea). 



Depth 2% to 23/4; head 21/2 to 2%, width 1% to 21/5. Snout 3 

 to 3% in head; eye 3l^ to 4, greater than snout in young to 1% in 

 snout with age, greater than interorbital in young to equal with age ; 

 maxillary reaches i/4 to l^ in eye, expansion 1 to ly^ in eye, length 

 2% to 21/2 in head; teeth villiform, in narrow bands in jaws, with 

 outer row enlarged, conic, little curved, usually as pair above slightly 

 canine like and 2 or 3 more on each mandibular ramus; crescentic 

 band of vomerine teeth, also band on each palatine, tongue smooth ; 

 interorbital 41^ to 5^4, convex; preopercle edge denticulate, with 

 deep gash usually receiving strong bony knob; young with strong 

 extended spine at angle but without gash. Gill rakers 7 + 15, of 

 which 5 or 6 as rudimentary above and below, longer than gill 

 filaments or 1% in eye. 



Scales 48 to 50 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 or 6 more on 

 latter ; 9 scales above lateral line, 18 to 20 below, predorsal 26 to 36 



