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Head and front of trunk blackish violaceous, rest of body yellow- 

 ish. Dorsals and anals dusky, other fins yellowish. Length 280 mm. 

 (Bleeker.) 



Madagascar, Lord Howe Island. Paracaesio hedleyi is described 

 from an example 336 mm. long. It was supposed to differ in having 

 the front dorsal spines showing a slight lobe and the coloration a 

 little more variegated. 



Subgenus Caesio Lacepede 



Dorsal rays 12 to 15, anal rays 11 or 12. Jaws without an external 

 row of denticles. 



CAESIO LUNARIS Cuvier 



Cacsio Tunaris (Ehkenberg) Cuv'ier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 441. 

 East Indies, Red Sea, New Ireland. — Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, 

 p. 120 (Massaua).— GtJNTHEB, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 390 

 (copied). — Plattaib, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 31 (Zanzibar; Aden). — 

 Klunzingee, Verb. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 769 (Koseir, Red 

 Sea).— Bleekek, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 37, pi. (56) 

 334, fig. 4 (Java). — Klunzingee, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 46. — Meyeb, 

 Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 20 (North Celebes).— 

 Steindachnee, Abb. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., vol 25, 1900, p. 418 

 (Ternate). — Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 30, 1905, p. 84 

 (Bale d' Along, Tonkin). — Seat.e and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol 33, 

 1907, p. 243 ( Zamboanga ) . — Steindachneb, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien. 

 Math.-nat. Klasse, vol. 71, pt. 1907, p. 136 (Bal Haf, Makalla, Tamarida, 

 Sokotra). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 286 (Kangeang 

 Island; Macassar). — Bambb:b, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 31, Zool., 1915, 

 p. 481 (Sudanese Red Sea). — Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 62, 1922,. p. 37 (Zanzibar). — Vincigueeba, Ann. Mus. Civico Stor. Nat. 

 Genova, series 3, vol. 10, 1926, p. 572 (Sarawak). — Fowlee, Mem. Bishop 

 Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 203 (Shortland Island) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1929, p. 638 (Shortland Island). 



Coesio lunaris Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., vol. 2, pt. 1, 1830, p. 186 (Port 

 Praslin, New Ireland). 



Depth 23^ to 24^ ; head 3l^ to 31/3, width 1% to lYg. Snout 3% 

 to 4 in head from snout tip ; eye 4 to 4i/4, 1 to V/g in snout, II/3 to 1% 

 in interorbital ; maxillary reaches nearly or quite to front eye edge, 

 expansion 2 in eye, length 3 in head from snout tip; lips narrow; 

 teeth in narrow villiform bands in jaws, none on palate or tongue; 

 interorbital 2% to 3, convexly elevated; preopercle edge entire. 

 Gill rakers 9 + 19, lanceolate, equal 'gill filaments or 1% in eye. 



Scales 48 to 51 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 or 6 more on latter ; 

 7 or 8 scales above lateral line, 14 to 16 below, 24 to 26 predorsal scales 

 forward opposite front eye edge of which 16 or 19 to occiput, 4 rows 

 on cheek to angle of preopercle ridge. Suprascapula entire. Verti- 

 cal fins densel}'^ covered with fine scales. Scales with 15 to 17 basal 

 radiating striae; apical denticles 72 to 76, with 15 to 17 transverse 

 series of basal elements ; circuli vei^y fine. 



