14 EDIBLE FISHES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Genus III.— LUTIANUS. 



Lufjamis, Blocb, Hist. Nat. Poiss, iv. p. 84, 1797. 



Brancliiostegals seven : pseuclobrauchiae present. Body oblong-ovate, com- 

 pressed. Opercle spiniferons: preopercle serrated, with or without a notch on 

 its vertical margin, intended to receive a knob which is frequently developed 

 on the interopercle. Jaws, vomer, and palatines v/ith villiform teeth: the 

 former with anterior canines, largest in the upper jaw, and a lateral series 

 of strong conical teeth : minute teeth sometimes present on the tongue. 

 One dorsal fin with from nine to thirteen spines : anal with three. Scales 

 ctenid, of moderate size : one or two enlarged rows over the nape : cheeks 

 scaly. Airbladder simple. Pyloric appendages few or absent. 



LUTIANUS PULYIPLAMMA. 



Scicena fulviflamma, Porsk. Descr. Anim. p. 45, 1775 ; Gmel. Svst. Nat. 



p. 1299. 

 Ferca fulvifla7nma, Bl. Schn. p. 90. 

 Gentropomiis lioher, Lacep. Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv. p. 255. 

 Diacope fulviflamma, Cuv. Eegne Anim ; Eiipp. Atl. Pisch. p. 72, pi. xix. f , 2, 



and N. W. Pisch. p. 94; Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. ii. p. 423; Klunz. 



Verh. Ges. Wien, 1870, p. 700. 

 Mesoprio7i itnimaculatus, Quoy & Gaim. Yoy. Preycinet, p. 304, and Yoy. 



Astrolabe, p. 6G5, pi. v. f . 3 ; Cuv. & Yal. Hist. Nat. Poiss. p. 441 ; Bleek. 



Yerh. Bat. Gen. xxii. Perc. p. 42. 

 Mesoprion aurolineatus, Cuv. & Yal. Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii. p. 49G ; Day, Pish. 



Malab. p. 14, pi. iii. 

 Mesop)rion russellii, Bleek. Yerh. Bat. Geu. xxii. Perc. p. 41 ; Day, Proc. 



ZooL Soc. 1867, p. 70l. 

 Lutjanus notatus, Bleek. Ternate, p. 233. 

 Genyoroge noiata, Cantor, Catal. Malay. Pish. p. 12 ; Day, Pish. Malab. p. 8 



{not Cuv. ^ Val.) 

 Mesoprion fulviflamma, Bleek. Amboina, ii. p. 532 ; Gnth. Catal. Pish. i. p. 



201 ; Day, Pish. Malab. p. 13 ; Kner, Yoy. Novara, Pisch. p. 351. 

 Lutjanus russellii, Bleek. Atl. Ichthyol. Perc. pi. xxii. f. 2, and Lutjani, p. 7G. 

 Lutjanus tmimaculatus, Yaillant, Soc. Phil. Paris, May 23rd, 1874. 

 Lutjanus fulviflamma, Bleek. Halmaheira. p. 55, and Lutjani, p. Gl ; Day, 



Pish. Ind. p. 42, pi. xii. ff. 5, G. 



Black-spotted Sea-Perch. 

 B. vii. D. 10/14. A. 3/8. Y. 1/5. P. IG. C. 17. L. lat. 47-49. L. tr. 10/20. 



Coec. pyl. 5. 

 Length of head 3-33-3-50, of caudal fin 4-25-4-50, height of body 

 8-40-3-50 in the total length. Diameter of eye 3-GG-4-00 in the length 

 of the head, and 1'25 in that of the snout : interorbital space very slightly 

 convex, l'GO-1'90 in the diameter of the eye. Nostrils far apart, simple, 

 oval, subequal ; the anterior pierced in the middle of a shallow circular 

 fossa. Upper profile of head slightly concave. .Taws equal. Cleft of mouth 

 moderate and a little oblique, the maxilla extending to beneath the middle 

 of the orbit. Preopercle denticulated, the teeth on the horizontal limb and 

 angle coarser thau those above the notch, which is very shallow : interoper- 

 cula,r knob inconspicuous : opercle with two blunt points : posttemporal 

 with a few short blunt teeth. Jaws with a band of villiform teeth, and an 

 outer row of curved cardiform teeth, stronger and more numerous in 

 the lower jaw, in which they grow larger posteriorly ; maxilla with two 



