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Lutja/nus mirantius LAcfip£;DE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 193, 239. 



Japan. 

 Diagramma pica Cuvieb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 297, pi. 124. Tahiti.— 



GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 326 (compiled). — Peters, 



Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 437 (Mauritius). 

 Diagramma sihbaldi Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 2, 1832, p. 



182. Ceylon. 

 Diagramma picoides Petees, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866, p. 94. No 



locality. — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 83 (copied) ; Fauna Brit. 



India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 519. 



Depth 22/3 to 31/s; head 3% to 33^. Snout 23/5 to 2% in head; 

 eye 3% to 3%, 1% to ly^ in snout; maxillary reaches opposite hind 

 nostril or to eye, length 3I/3 to 3^ in head; interorbital moderately 

 elevated. (Scales 100 along above lateral line, 85 along below 

 lateral line, 13 above transversely, 13 below transversely — Day.) 



D. XII or XIII, 17 to 21, third spine 1% to 214 in head, first 

 ray 21/2 to 2% ; A. Ill, 7, second spine 1% to 21^, first ray 2 to 2% ; 

 caudal 11/5 to li^, truncate to little convex behind; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2% to 2% ; pectoral ly^ to 11/4 ; ventral ll^ to 1%. 



White generally. In young 3 large black blotches, first on head, 

 second on back and spinous dorsal and third on soft dorsal and 

 back. Caudal also largely black. Black bands all more or less 

 variably connected by medium black longitudinal band. With age 

 black lateral band bifurcates to eye and caudal peduncle, variably 

 and on back 2 parallel black bands. On side below black band 

 variably from cheek to pectoral base and lower surface of caudal 

 peduncle. Pectoral largely black medially. Black bar across caudal 

 above and another below. Also black bar across anal. Length 190 

 mm. (Giinther.) 



Mauritius, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, Japan?, Polynesia. 



PLECTORHINCHUS DIAGRAMMUS (Linnaeus) 



Perca diagramma Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 293. Habitat? ; 

 ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 487.— Bonnateree, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 133 (no 

 locality). — Gmei^in, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, 1789, p. 133. — "Walbatjm, Artedi 

 Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 342 (on Linnaeus). 



Plectorhynchus diagramma Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 

 (1906), p. 267 (Apia; Pago Pago). 



Plectorhinchus diagramma Fovfler, Bull. Bishop Mus., No. 22, 1925, p. 9 

 (Guam) ; Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 206 (Guam; Apia). 



Bodian cuvicr Bennett, Fishes of Ceylon, 1828-1830, pi. 13. Ceylon. 



Diagramma cuvieri Platfaie, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 28 (Zanzibar). — 

 DAT, Fishes of India, Suppl., 1888, p. 785 ; Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 

 1889, p. 516.— Thurston, Notes Pearl Fisher. Manaar, 1890, p. 91 

 (Pamban). 



Pleclorhynclius cuvieri Bli^tkeb, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, 1876-1877, 

 p. 21 (Java, Sumatra, Batu, Amboina, Banda). 



Plectorhinchus cuvier Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 206 (com- 

 piled) ; Proc, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 608 (Hong Kong). 



