NO. 1792. JAPANESE LUTIANID^— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 445 



in copying. Later the same writers gave the name Corusculus to the 

 herycoides of Hilgendorf, which is the same species. The name 

 Doderleinia herycoides replaces all others for this beautiful and inter- 

 esting fish, which seems to be midway between Anihias and Etelis. 

 i^kpu^, beryx; eldoc, resemblance.) 



4. Genus LUTIANUS Bloch. 



Lutianus Bloch, Ichthyologia, vol. 4, 1790, p. 107 (lutianus); the name first 



spelled Lutianus, but later changed, on the plates and elsewhere, to Lutjanus. 

 Diacope Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 410 (sebse); 



name preoccupied in Lepidoptera. 

 Mesoprion Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 441 



{lutianus, etc.). 

 Genyoroge Cantor, Cat. Malay. Fishes, 1850, p. 12 (sebse); substitute for Diacope. 

 Evoplites Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 236 (pomacanthus=young 



of kasmira). 

 Neomxnis Girard, U. S. Mex. Bound. Survey, Zool., Fishes, 1859, p. 18 (emar- 



ginatus= griseus) . 

 Eypoplitcs Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 236 {retrospinis) . 

 Proamblys Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 236 (nigra=macolor). 

 Macolor Bleeker, Poiss. Amboina, Ned. Tyd. Dierk., 1867, p. 277 (macolor). 

 Raizero Jordan and Fesler, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm., 1889 (1893), p. 438 (aratus). 



Body oblong, compressed, the back somewhat elevated; head long, 

 naked or scaly above, with a broad oblique band of scales at the nape; 

 nostrils normally close together, neither with a tube ; mouth large, 

 the jaws with bands of villiform teeth, besides which is usually an 

 outer series of larger teeth in each jaw, and 2 to 4 stronger teeth or 

 canines in front of upper jaw; vomer with villiform teeth; villiform 

 teeth on the palatines; usually one or more patches of teeth on the 

 tongue in the adult; no molar teeth; no teeth on pterygoids; pre- 

 opercle without notch {Lutianus) or with a shallow or deep emargina- 

 tion {Genyoroge; EvoiMtes); posterior limb of preopercle finely 

 serrate ; gill rakers ratlier few, shortish ; soft rays of dorsal and anal 

 scaly at base; last rays of dorsal and anal not produced; dorsal 

 spines 10 (rarely 11), continuous with the soft rays; anal rays 7 to 9. 

 Interorbital area not flat nor separated from the occipital region, the 

 median and lateral crests procurrent on it, and the frontal narrowed 

 forward; fronto-occipital crest ceasing anteriorly far from front of 

 frontal, usually beliind eye; prefrontal with posterior areas impressed, 

 long, and cribriform; prefrontal with the articular facets arising from 

 diverging V-shaped ridges; basisphenoid with an anterior lobiform 

 extension. Vertebrae 10+ 14 = 24. 



In the old-world species of tliis genus, the fronto-occipital crest 

 generally coalesces with the orbital rim, while in American forms 

 {Neomsenis Girard) the two are separate. We doubt, however, 

 whether the latter group can be maintained as a distinct genus. 



