NO. 1792. JAPANESE LUTIANID^E— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 459 



Second anal spine longest 2^ or 2f in head, third 3 in head; margin 

 of anal fin angulate, as is soft dorsal posteriorly to a less degree. Pec- 

 toral equal to head less one-third length of snout, not reaching past 

 anal insertion. Ventrals extending to anus. Caudal emarginate. 



Scales on body in obUque rows above lateral line, horizontal below, 

 present on basal third of soft dorsal and anal. Dorsal surface of head 

 scaleless, save for rather broad temporal bands, in four or five series, 

 of which the posterior are very small, the anterior larger; temporal 

 bands separated from lateral scales of head, but narrowly. Preopercle 

 with 6 or 7 rows of scales, opercle with 8 or 9; limb of preopercle 

 scaleless; interopercle with one or two rows; preorbitals scaleless. 



Body in spirits dark, slightly paler below; dorsal and caudal very 

 narrowly edged with yellowish white, with a submarginal band of 

 black on dorsal; caudal nearly black, the margin pale; anal colored 

 as is body; pectorals and ventrals colorless. The following is a trans- 

 lation of Bleeker's description of the life colors : The color of the body 

 is reddish, paler below, each series of scales with a broad yellow or 

 golden stripe, oblique above lateral line, horizontal below. Dorsal 

 spmes with a broad black or dusky margin. Margin of soft dorsal, 

 anal and caudal yellow, with deep violet or black submarginal area, 

 the remainder reddish. Day remarks that his specimens from the 

 Malabar coast of India frequently have a black lateral blotch. 



There seems to be no reason to doubt the pertinence of the name 

 vaigiensis to this species. Quoy and Gaimard note the yellow fins 

 with dark submarginal stripe, and the oblique streaks along the rows 

 of scales of the body. 



A stuffed skin from Nagasaki is recorded by Temminck and Schle- 

 gel, who identify it very doubtfully with Diacope calveti Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes, which is Lutianus timoriensis of Quoy and Gaimard. 



In all probability this specimen, which is compared with Quoy 

 and Gaimard's rough figure, belonged to Lutianus vaigiensis, and 

 L. timoriensis = L. calveti should be erased from the list of nominal 

 species of Japan. 



{vaigiensis, living about Waigiu.) 



S. Genus PRISTIPOMOIDES Bleeker. 



Chsetopterus Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poissons, 1843, p. 78 (not 



Chsetopterus of Cuvier, 1830, a genus of worms). 

 Pristipomoides Bleeker, Tyd. Ned. Ind., vol. 3, 1852, p. 574 (typus). 

 Platyinius Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, p. 237 (vorax=macrophthal- 



mus) . 

 Bowersia Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22 (for 1902), 1903, 



p. 183 (violescens) . 

 Ulaula Jordan and Thompson; new subgenus; type, Bowersia ulaula J ordsin and 



Evermann; substitute for Chsetopterus, preoccupied. 



Body oblong or rather elongate, compressed, covered with moderate 

 sized scales. Skull as in Aprion and Etelis, the occipital crest 



