37. MESOPEION. 205 



reddish-violet spot on the back of the taU ; doreal and caudal fins 

 with a black edge ; spines of the anal and ventral fins white. 

 Sea of Padang (Sumatra). 



a. -Half-grown. East Indies. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



Perhaps a variety of the former species. 



30. Mesoprion erythropterus. 



Lutjanus eiytliropterus, Block, t. 249. 



Mesoprion erythropterus, Cuv. <S,- Val. ii. p. 478 ; Bleeker, Perc. p. 47. 



xanthopterygius, Bleek. Perc. p. 46. 



D.jii-3. 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 diameter 

 of the eye is one-thii-d of the length of the head. Prceoperculum 

 not or very slightly emarginate. Caudalis truncated; the dorsal 

 spines slender, the third and fom-th longest. Uniform yellowish ; 

 fins purplish. {Bl.) 



Sea of Batavia ; Sumbawa. 



31. Mesoprion lineolatus. 



Diacope liueolata, Riipiy. All. Fische, p. 76. t. 19, f. 3 (Bleek. Perc. 

 p. 46, different). 



D. Jl. A. |. L. lat. 52. Cgec. pylor. 4. 



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

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

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

 larger than the distance between the eyes". The lower jaw slightly 

 prominent ; the upper maxillary bone reaches to below the middle of 

 the eye". Praeoperculum finely serrated and very slightly emar- 

 ginate behind ; knob of interopercidum none. Caudalis truncated, 

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

 fourth, and fifth longest ; the second of the anal fin longer and 

 stronger than the third. Greenish olive, with obhque darker 

 streaks above the lateral Une, and with longitudinal beneath. 



Red Sea ; Amboyna. 



a. Adult. Red Sea. 



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



32. Mesoprion timoriensis. 



Diacope timoriensis, Quoi/ ^- Gaim. Voij. dii Freyc. Zool. p. 306. 



pi. 57. f. 1. 

 calvetii, Cuv. ^ Val. ii. p. 429 ; Faun. Japan, p. 14. 



D. ii. A.i-. 



14 8 



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



