NO. 1792. JAPANESE LUTIANID^E— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 455 



Color in spirits dari^, with indistinct lines on rows of scales, a broad, 

 dark stripe through eye from snout to insertion of dorsal, a black 

 spot on either side of caudal peduncle, merging on its upper surface, 

 and bordereci anteriorly and posteriorly with a lighter band. Dorsals 

 and anal dusky, ventrals black at tip, pectorals and caudal clear. 



Day, who saw Bloch's types, said to be from Japan, and who 

 possessed a large series of the species from India, observes that the 

 soft portion of the dorsal is more angular in adults than in young, and 

 that the color also changes. The following is the substance of his 

 description of the color in life: "■ Color crimson, with orange reflec- 

 tions; a broad blackish band passes from eye to insertion of dorsal, 

 sometimes slightly apparent along whole base of fin; eight to twelve 

 narrow and nearly horizontal black lines exist below the lateral line 

 and several more above it, some being the continuations of those 

 which commence below the lateral line; a black band crosses over 

 back of free portion of tail, having a white one before it, a narrow 

 pink one posterior; pectoral flesh colored; ventral either black, or 

 stained black in its outer half or two-thirds; dorsal dark gray, in some 

 specimens with a nearly black base and black edge; caudal pink, with 

 narrow black border; anal darkest anteriorly. In adults (12 inches) 

 black lines disappear, and each row of scales has a golden line; a trace 

 exists of band from eye to dorsal fin, while that over the free portion 

 of tail is somewhat indistinct. 



{kpuOpog, red; Tzzspov, fin.) 



8. LUTIANUS RIVULATUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 FUYEDAI (Flute-player Porgy). 



Diacope rivulata Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 414, 

 pi. 38 (Coromandel, Pondicherry). — Klunzinger, Syn. Fische Rothen 

 Meeres, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 2, 1870, p. 694 (Red Sea). — Sauvage, 

 Poissons de Madagascar, 1891, p. 104 (Madagascar). 



Genyoroge rivulata Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 182 (China, 

 Amboyna, Red Sea). — Gunther and Playfair, Fishes Zanzibar, 1866, p. 16 

 (Aden, Zanzibar). 



Lutjanus rivulatus Bleeker, Nat. Verh. Akad. Roy. Neer. Sci., XIII, Lutjaui, 

 1873, p. 81.— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vol. 8, 1877, p. 73, pi. 347, fig. 3 (Su- 

 matra, Java, Bawean, Bali, Celebes, Timor, Batjan, Buro, Amboyna, 

 Waigiu). — Day, Fishes India, 1875, p. 37, pi. 11, fig. 4. — Steindachner and 

 Doderlein, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 47, 1883, p. 28 (Japan). — 

 Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Museum, vol. 4, 1910, no. 4, p. 

 184 (Takao, Formosa). — Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25, 

 Fishes Samoa, 1905, p. 262 (Apia). 



Mesoprion rivulatus Klunzinger, Fische Rothen Meeres, 1884, p. 12 (Red Sea). 



Diacope cceruleopundata Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, 

 p. 424 (after Russell, Balee-maee, pi. 96). 



Mesoprion cosruleopunctatus Bleeker, Percoid, Nat. Tyd., Ned. Ind., vol. 2, 

 1851, p. 169 (Padang). 



Oenyoroge cceruleopundata Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 182 

 (Coromandel, Padang, Sumatra). — Day, Fishes Malabar, pp. 7, 9. 



a Fishes of India, p. 32. 



