r 



37. MESUPUION. 205 



rodclisli-violct spot on the back of the tail ; dorsal and caudal fins 

 with a l)lack edge ; spines of the anal and ventral fins white. 

 Sea of Padang (Sumatra). 



a. Half-gro^vn. East Indies. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



Perhaps a variety of the former species. 



30. Mesoprion erythropterus. 



Lutjanus erythropterus, BlacJi, t. 240. 



Mesoprion erythropterus, Cm: ^- Vul. ii. p. 478 ; Bkeker, Perc. p. 47. 



xanthopterygius, Bleek. Perc. p. 46. 



D-I^s- A.|. L.lat.45. 



The height of the body is rather more than one-fourth of the total 

 length, the length of the head 3| in the same length ; the chameter 

 of the eye is one-third of the length of the head. Prfeoperculum 

 not or very slightly emarginate. Caudalis truncated; the dorsal 

 spines slender, the third and fourth longest. Uniform yellowish ; 

 fins puii^lish. {Bl.) 



Sea of Batavia ; Sumbawa. 



31. Mesoprion lineolatus. 



Diacope lineolata, i?(V/;;j. Atl. Fische, p. 76. t. 19. f. 3 (Bleek. Perc. 

 p. 46, different). 



D. [i. A. |. L. lat. 52. C«c. pylor. 4. 



The height of the body is one-fourth of the total length; the 

 length of the head is 3g in the same ; the diameter of the eye is a 

 little more than one-thii-d of the length of the head, and not much 

 ku'ger than the distance between the eyes. The lower jaw slightly 

 prominent ; the upper maxiUaiy bone reaches to below the midtUe of 

 the eye. Prajoperculum finely serrated and very slightly emar- 

 ginate behind ; knob of interoperculum none. CaudaUs truncated, 

 pectoral distant from the anal ; dorsal spines moderate, the third, 

 foiu'th, and fifth longest; the second of the anal fin longer and 

 stronger than the third. Greenish olive, with oblique darker 

 streaks above the lateral line, and with longitudinal beneath. 



Red Sea ; AmbojTia. 



a. Adult. Red Sea. 



6. Half-grown. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



32. Mesoprion timoriensis. 



Diacope timoriensis, Quoi/ Hf Gaim. Voij. die Freijc. Zool. p. 306. 



pi. hi. f. 1. 

 calvetii, Cuv. lV Val. ii. p. 429 ; Faun. Japon. p. 14. 



D.ll. A.|. 



The height of the body is not quite one-third of the total length ; 



