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Color in spirits yellowish brown ; head dark on scaleless parts ; four 

 longitudinal stripes of bright blue bordered with black on body, their 

 width one-fourth eye diameter; first extending from a point above 

 eye to insertion of soft dorsal, second from upper margin of eye to 

 center of soft dorsal, third from lower margin of eye to upper part of 

 caudal, and fourth from snout to middle caudal rays; below fourth 

 on head, an indistinct stripe, not extending on body, and an indis- 

 tinct, diffuse blotch of dusky equal to eye present under first soft rays 

 of dorsal. 



This species, very common in the East Indian region, has been 

 twice recorded from southern Japan, although no specimens were 

 taken by Jordan and Snyder. As Bloch records from Japan his 

 quinquelineatus or quinquelinearis (the latter name on the plate, the 

 former on the description), it is not impossible that he had in hand 

 the present species. The figure of quinquelinearis resembles L. Tcas- 

 mira, but' Day has examined the type of Bloch's description, which 

 he finds identical with Lutianus coerueolineatus of Klunzinger. The 

 species we have hitherto called quinquelinearis is widely different from 

 Lutianus Jcasmira. 



(kasmira, an Arabic name.) 



5. LUTIANUS VITTA (QuoyandGaimard). 

 KINSEIISAKI (new-fashioned Porgy); TARUMI. 



Serranus vitta Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, vol. 2, 1824, p. 315, pi. 58, fig. 3 

 (Waigiu). — Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 234 (Hongkong). — Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 239, and vol. 6, 1830, 

 p. 505 (after Quoy and Gaimard). 



Diacope vitta Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonlca, 1843, p. 13, pi. 6, fig. 4, 

 (Nagasaki). 



Mesoprion vitta Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. Kunst. Wet., vol. 22, 1849, p. 44 

 (Batavia); Not. Ichth. Ternate, Ned. Tyd. Dierk., 1863, p. 233 (Ternate); 

 Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet., XIII, Revision Lutjani, 1873, p. 25. — Kner, Reise 

 Novara, 1860, p. 37 (Java).— GIjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, 

 p. 207 (Hongkong, Amboyna, Molucca, Louisades, Port Essington). 



Lutjanus vitta Day, Fishes India, 1875, p. 46, pi. 14, fig. 2. — Bleeker, Atlaa 

 Ichth., vol. 8, 1876, p. 51, pi. 60, fig. 3 (Sumatra, Singapore, Bangka, Biliton, 

 Java, Bali, Celebes, Ternate, Amboyna, Ceram, Waigiu, Bawak, New 

 Guinea). — Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische Japans, Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 vol. 47, 1883, p. 28 (Tokyo). 



Lutianus vitta Jordan and Snyder, Check List, Ann. Zool. Jap., vol. 3, pts. 2 

 and 3, 1901, p. 76. 



Mesoprion phaiotseniatus Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. Kunst. Wet., vol. 22, Perc, 

 1849, p. 43 (Batavia).— IsHiKAWA, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 56 (Tokyo). 



Mesoprion ophuyseni Bleeker, Act. Soc. Scient. Ind. Neerl., vol. 8, Achste 

 Bijdt. Vischf., Sumatra, 1859, p. 74 (Sumatra). 



Hahitat. — East Indies, common northward to Tokyo, in southern 

 Japan. 



Description. — Of numerous specunens from Wakanoura, Nagasaki, 

 and Kobe, from 135 to 260 mm. in length. 



