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Pale olive brown above; sides and below rosy and silvery. Nar- 

 row oblique pale olivaceous lines obliquely up and many crossing 

 lateral line to dorsal base, pale on lower side and under surface of 

 body. Broad deep brown saddle-like blotch on caudal peduncle 

 above and silvery white blotch in front and behind, but smaller.. 

 Dorsal edges dusky to blackish. Caudal brown, like dorsals and 

 anal, also with narrow blackish edge. Pectoral pale yellowish,, 

 axil pale greenish. Ventral whitish, blackish terminally. Young 

 in alcohol often darker, upper surface more or less dusky. 



Ked Sea, Arabia, Mozambique, Natal, Madagascar, Persian Gulf,. 

 India, Ceylon, Andamans, Pinang, Siam, Singapore, East Indies^, 

 Philippines, China, Japan, North Australia, Queensland, Melanesia. 

 A handsome deep-bodied species, the young not greatly different 

 from the adult. 



21158. Jolo market. February 11, 1908. Length 190 mm. 



20827, 20828. Lingayen Gulf, Luzon. May 11, 1909. Length 76 to 106 mm. 



8732. Manila market. December 12 to 18, 1907. Length 118 mm. 



10663. Manila market. June 17, 1908. Length 173 mm. 



11451. Manila market. April 29, 1909. Length 202 mm. 



21892. Port Jamelo, Luzon. July 12, 1908. Length 57 mm. 



17555. Sorsogon market. March 12, 1909. Length 71" mm. 



9047. Tacloban market. June 24, 1909. Length 290 mm. 



A1022. Buka Buka Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. November 20, 1909. 



Length 120 mm. 

 13194. Macassar market. December 22, 1909. Length 73 mm. 

 9961. Kowloon market, China. September 18, 1908. Length 160 mm. 

 20632. Kowloon market. September 26, 1908. Length 83 mm. 

 9747, 11659, 21599. Kowloon market. October 5, 1908. Length 84 to 142 mm. 

 6853. Kowloon market. October 22, 1909. Length 190 mm. 

 56079 U.S.N.M. San Fabian, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3343). 



Length 146 mm. 

 56276 U.S.N.M. Manila. Dr. Lung. Length 75 to 101 mm. 2 examples. 

 58399 U.S.N.M. Hong Kong. P. L. Jouy. Length 41 mm. 



72675 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 82 mm. As Lutjanus^ 

 cMrtah. 



72676 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 165 to 169 mm. As. 

 Lutjanus chirtah. 



75918 U.S.N.M. Japan? P. L. Jouy. Length 94 to 140 mm. 5 examples. 



LUTJANUS GIBBUS (Forskal) 



Sciaena ffiMa Foeskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. ix, 46. Arabia. — Bonna- 

 TEKBB, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 123 (Red Sea).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., voL 

 1, 1789, p. 1300 (Arabia).— Walbatjm, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 314 (on 

 Forskal) . 



Lutianus gibbus Schneideii, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 326 (Red Sea). — Day,. 

 Fishes of India, pt. 1. 1875, p. 43, pi. 13, figs. 2-3. — Jordan and Seale, Bull. 

 Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 262 (Apia; Pago Pago) ; vol. 26. 190© 

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

 1906 (1907), p. 80 (Bacon).— Seale and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. vol. 



