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lines ; below color on base and margin of scales, central portion more or less 

 silvery ; dorsal and caudal red, somewhat dusky on the soft tip ; anal bright 

 red ; ventral pale red ; pectoral yellowish. 



5266. Dagupan, Luzon. March 19, 1908. Length 215 mm. 



6096. Iloilo market. May 31, 1908. Length 329 mm. Silvery, with crimson 

 showing traces of bronze lines above lateral line on oblique rows of scales. 

 Iris like side of head. Inside mouth orange. Fins crimson, brightest ter- 

 minally. Edges of soft vertical fins and ventrals narrowly black ; tips of 

 first 2 anal rays white. Pectoral pale crimson. 



5875. Malabang market. May 22, 1908. Length 338 mm. General color red, 

 most pronounced at bases of scales, becoming more or less silvery on sides 

 of head and lower part of body. Iris silvery and red, slight yellowish shades 

 above. Preorbital and snout probably washed with yellow. Upper edge of 

 dorsal, tips of caudal black. Pectoral axil dusky. Ventral membranes clear, 

 rays pale, fin otherwise body color. 



5700. Manila market. May 2, 1908. Length 340 mm. 



6305. Manila market. June 17, 1908. Length 305 mm. 



6758, 6759, 6765, 6766, 6767. Manila market. April 21, 1909. Length 245 to 

 427 mm. Nearly clear red, bases of scales colored, marginal portions very 

 sUvery. Little trace of brownish lines above lateral line. Top of caudal 

 peduncle dusky. Smaller examples show anal and caudal white and dusky 

 marking behind last dorsal ray and brownish lines on scale rows. Others with 

 caudal base pale, edge blackish, also edge of dorsal and anal and ventrals 

 terminally. 



9045, 9046. Tacloban market. July 25, 1909. Length 218 to 242 mm . 



9112, 9113 [D. 5478]. Tacbuc, Leyte. July 29, 1909. Length 215 to 287 mm. 



5112. Sandakan market, Borneo. March 4, 1908. Length 255 mm. 



56052 U.S.N.M. Bulan. Bureau of Fisheries (4006). Length 44 mm. 



56322 U.S.N.M. Manila. Dr. G. A. Lung. Length 185 mm. As Lutjanus 

 dodeacatithus. 



76620 U.S.N.M. Takao, Formosa. Dr. F. Baker. Length 260 mm. 



27600 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. Length 

 208 mm. When fresh in arrack rich warm brown, with yellowish olive tinge. 

 Body below, sides below lateral line, together with head, rich rosy. Darker 

 colored lines than body color extend obliquely upward and backward to 

 cross lateral line, though below somewhat paler. Deep brown blotch or sad- 

 dle on caudal peduncle above, tinged pink in front and behind to form 2 other 

 pale saddle-like blotches. Vertical fins edged deep gray black, bases with 

 dirty yellowish tinge. Pectoral dull yellowish. Ventral gray on outer 

 portion. 



LUTJANUS SEBAE (Cuvier) 



Diacope seMe Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 411. Waigiu; Pondi- 

 cherry ; Java. — Klunzingek, Verb. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 692 

 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 

 (1907), p. 78 (Bulan).— Seale and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 

 1907, p. 243 (Zamboanga). 



Diacope seioe Guichenot, Notes He Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 23. 



Oenyoroge sehae GiJNXHEE, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 176 (India,. 

 Louisiades, Amboina, Mozambique). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, 

 p. 15 (Aden; Zanzibar) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 848 (Seychelles). — 

 Alleynb and Maclbay. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 1, 1877, 

 p. 265 (Percy Islands). — Meyer, Anal Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, voL 

 15, 1885, p. 6 (Macassar, Celebes; Rubi, New Guinea). — Kent, Great Bar- 



