NO. 1792. JAPANESE LUTIANID^— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 457 



line of back; three pairs of indistinct narrow lines ecfiiidistantly 

 placed between anterior line and base of caudal peduncle, those of 

 each pair separated by width of pupil, and anterior ones less indistinct 

 than posterior, but all fading out on ventral surface; a diffuse short 

 line at last rays of dorsal; on lateral line, beneath first dorsal rays, a 

 black blotch, half size of eye, with a narrow milk-white spot imme- 

 diately behind, and a continuation of the black spot posteriorly, the 

 whole covering ten scales of a longitudinal series; ventrals black on 

 distal halves, other fins dusky. Steindachner and Doderlein give the 

 following description of the color of an adult specimen 42 cm. long: 

 Color of back brownish green, clearer ventrally; head dark violet 

 dorsally, a blue, sinuous stripe under the eye ; on scales of upper part 

 of body only a very few blue spots; under base of first dorsal ray a 

 slender, milk-white spot with a light stripe of pale red immediately 

 over the lateral line. 



The changes which apparently take place between the young and 

 adult are disappearance of the transverse stripes, appearance of the 

 numerous sinuous narrow lines on the cheeks, and of the spots on 

 the scales above the lateral line, which Steindachner's specimen 

 showed only in a few places, as well as a change in contour of head 

 and depth of opercular notch. The band of scales on the preopercle 

 apparently is less broad in adults. 



This species of the South Seas is rare in southern Japan. It was 

 first recorded by Steindachner and Doderlein without definite locahty. 

 We have before us numerous young examples collected at Tane- 

 gashima, off the coast of Kiusiu, by Professor Snyder. According to 

 Doctor Ishikawa, the fish is known as Fuyedai; fuye, a flute player, 

 and tai, a porgy. 



(rivulatus, with winding streaks like rivulets.) 



9. LUTIANUS VAIGIENSIS (Quoy and Gaimard). 



Diucope vaigiensis Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage Uranie, 1824, p. 307 (Waigiou) 



(not Mesoprion vaigiensis Gunther). 

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



p. 425 (Pondicherry).— Peters, Wieg. Arch., 1855, p. 238. 

 Mesoprion marginatus Bleeker, Ichth. Amboyna, Tyd. Ned. Ind., vol. 5, 1852, 



p. 555. — Kner, Novara Fische, 1860, -p. 31 (Tahiti, Sydney). — Gunther, 



Fische Sudsee, 1873, p. 13, pi. 14 (Polynesia). 

 Genyoroge marginata Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 181 (Ceylon, 



Amboyna, Louisades, Coast of Mozambique). 

 Lutjanus inarginatus Bleeker, Ichth. Halmaheira, Ned. Tydss. Dierk., vol. 1, 



1863, p. 155; Nat. Verh. Acad. Roy. Neer. Sci., XIII, Revision Lutjani, 1873, 



p. 72; Atlas Ichth., vol. 8, 1876, p. 69 (Sumatra, Cocos, Java, Bali, Celebes, 



Sangi, Timor, Halmaheira, Ternate, Batjan, Obi-major, Buro, Ceram, 



Amboyna, Banda, Waigiou, New Guinea). — Steindachner and Doderlein, 



Fische Japans, 1883, p. 28 (Kagoshima). 

 Lutianus marginatus Jordan and Snyder, Check-List, Ann. Zool. Jap., vol. 3, 



pts. 2 and 3, 1901, p. 76.— Jordan and Seale, Bull. TJ. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25, 



1905, p. 263 (Apia, Samoa). 



