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2. LUTJANUS VIRIDIS. 



Diacope viridis Valenciennes, Voyage de la Ve:nns, 1845, 303, pi. 1, f. 2 (very bad) 



(Galapagos islands). 

 Genyoroge viridis, Giiutlier, i, 180 (copied). 

 Lutjanus cirtrfis, Jordan, Proceedings U. S. National Mnsenni 1888, 330 (Tres Marias). 



Habitat: Galapag'os, Tres Marias, and Revillagigedos islands. 



Etymology: Viridis, greeu, a very inappropriate name, as tlie species 

 is brown with blue stripes. 



This interesting species is a near ally of Lutjanus l-asmira (Forskal) 

 { = L. bengalensis Bloch). It belongs to the snbgenns Evoplites, a group 

 well represented in the East Indies, but with no other American allies. 

 A single specimen was obtained by Alphonse Forrer, from the Tres 

 Marias Islands, near Mazatlan. Several others have been since taken 

 by Dr. C H. Gilbert at the Revillagigedos Islands, where it is very 

 abundant. 



Lutjanus Tcasmira (from Swatow, China) differs from Lutjanus viridis 

 in the following respects : Body deeper (depth 2|) ; scales smaller (8) 12- 

 62-22 ; the back more elevated and the profile steeper ; snout, 3 in head ; 

 preorbital, 6; maxillary, 2| ; second anal spine, 31 • lower lateral band 

 wanting; a vague dark lateral blotch present, larger than eye; bands 

 less sharply defined than in X. viridis, the pale-blue median streak in 

 each band twice as wide as the dark border, the whole band narrower, 

 its width one-third to one-fourth that of the golden-brown interspaces; 

 no median dorsal streak. 



3. LUTJANUS CANINUS. 



? Mesoprion pargits Guv. & Val., ir, 473, 1828 (Pnerto Rico). 



Genyoroge canina Steindachner, Ichthyol, Notizen, ix, 18, 1869 (Lagos, Brazil). 



Habitat: Brazilian fauna. 



Etymology: Caninns, doglike, a reference to the canine teeth. 



Steindachner's description of Genyoroge canina. agrees in all respects 

 with the young of Lutjanus cyanopterus, except that the preopercle in 

 Ij. caninns is said to have the deep emargination found in L. viridis 

 and in the group called Genyoroge. We accept it provisionally as a 

 distinct species, solely on this character. The scanty description of .1/. 

 pargus probably refers to a specimen of L. cyanopterns, but the state- 

 ment "letuberositc de son interopercule est assez prononce" suggests 

 L. caninus. The tyi)e, probably a dried skin, we have failed to find in 

 the museum in Paris. 



