FISHES OF THE PHH,IPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 163 



each palatine and tongue toothless; interorbital little convex; hind 

 preopercle edge deeply gashed, above serrated, rounded lobe below 

 gash denticulate and pyramidal ; interopercular knob well developed. 



Scales 72 along above lateral line, 61 along below lateral line; 9 

 scales above lateral line, 21 below (predorsal scales shown on figure 

 as apparently forward opposite front eye edge and 13 rows over 

 cheek including both suborbitals and preopercle flange). 



D. XI, 13, fourth spine 2% in total head length, first ray 2^^; 

 A. Ill, 8, second spine 2%? first ray 2%; caudal li^, very slightly 

 emarginate behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 3%; pectoral 

 11/5 ; ventral 1%. 



Uniform yellowish-red, with dark spot in pectoral axil. Fins 

 yellow. Upper third of dorsal black, with white margin. Caudal 

 also with black mark across middle of first third of anal. Length 

 255 mm. (Day.) 



Andamans, Queensland ?, Polynesia. 



Neomesoprion unicolor Castelnau may possibly have been intended 

 for the present species, with its generic status admitted solely on the 

 presence of but 9 dorsal spines, possibly an individual variation? 

 It is noted incompletely as follows : 



Depth little over 2^2 without caudal ; head 2%. Body oval, high, 

 upper profile strong convex. Eye little over 4 in head, II/2 in snout. 

 Opercle pointed. Scales on front part of head very minute, on oper- 

 cles large as on body. D. IX, 15, second spine longest and others 

 decrease. A. Ill, 9, first spine short others subequal, 14 of rays. 

 P. 14, large. Scales 64 in lateral line. Silvery with yellow tinge. 

 Length 280 mm. 



LUTJANUS LUZONIUS Evermann and Scale 



Lututnus luzonius Evkbmann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), 



p. 79, fig. 13. Bacon. 

 Lutianus chrysotaenia (not Bleeker) Se:ale and Beivn, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 33, 1908, p. 243 (Zamboanga). 



Depth 21/2 to 2% ; head 21/2 to 2%, width 1% to 2i/8. Snout 3 to 

 314 in head ; ej^e 3i/^ to 4, 1 to li/^ in snout, greater than interorbital 

 in young to subequal with age; maxillary reaches i^ to % in eye, 

 expansion 2 to 2% in eye, length 2% to 21/2 in head ; teeth in villi- 

 form bands in jaws of 3 or 4 irregular rows and outer enlarged row; 

 4 to 6 teeth in front of each jaw still slightly larger or canine like; 

 band of villiform teeth across vomer and on each palatine, tongue 

 edentulous; interorbital 4i/4 to 4%, broadly convex; hind preopercle 

 edge with 28 to 33 small denticles, then deep gash receiving strong, 

 short, knob-like spine of subopercle, below 14 to 17 larger denticles 

 on broad lobe. Gill rakers 7 + 15, of which 5 below rudiments; 

 others lanceolate, equal gill filaments or 214 in eye. 



