30 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. . vou. 62. 
with 9 basal radiating striae, apical denticles 70 to 84, and circuli 
extremely fine. Color in alcohol, back dull brown, below much 
lighter. Four blue-gray horizontal bands, lowest median, above 
pectoral axil to caudal base medianly and widest, each with dark 
marginal line. Fins all pale. Length,173 mm. Zamboanga. 
LUTJANUS VITTA (Quoy and Gaimard). 
Head, 22 to 24; depth, 22 to 24; D. X, 18,1; A. III, 8,1; scales, 53 
to 60 in lateral line to caudal base, tubular scales 50 and 5 more on 
caudal base; 7 scales above lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 16 
or 17 below to spinous anal origin; 138 to 16 predorsal scales to 
occiput; snout, 8 to 34 in head from upper jaw tip; eye, 43; maxil- 
lary, 22 to 24; interorbital, 44 to 5. Often slight notch on hind 
preopercle edge above angle. Giull-rakers, v, 1-++9, m1, to il, u, 
lanceolate, about seven-eighths of filaments, or 2 in eye. Scales 
With 11 to 14 basal radiating striae, apical denticles 90 to 127, and 
circuli extremely fine. Color in alcohol, dull brussels-brown on back 
to lateral line, below pale orange-yellow. Each row of scales above 
lateral line with dark median line following courses of scales, thus 
oblique after curve of lateral line. Below lateral line pale hori- 
zontal lines like those above, fading on belly. Fins dull brownish, 
like back. Anal, pectoral, and ventral pale like lower surface of 
body. Length, 223 to 295 mm. Two examples, from Cebu and 
Takao, respectively. 
Dark median dusky olive band from snout tip to base of upper 
caudal lobe, in larger example expanded slightly as in Bleeker’s 
Mesoprion ophuysenii below front of soft dorsal. 
LUTJANUS MALABARICUS (Schneider). 
Head, 24; depth, 24; D. XI, 14,1; A. ITI, 9,1; scales, 60 in lateral 
line to caudal base, tubular scales 46 and 7 more on caudal base; 10 
scales above lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 20 below to spinous 
anal origin; 12 predorsal scales; snout, 23 in head; eye, 5$; maxil- 
lary, 22; interorbital, 6. Preopercle with very slight notch above 
angle. Gill-rakers, v 2+11, 1v, lanceolate, little longer than fila- 
ments, or 12 in eye. Scales with 18 to 21 basal radiating striae, 
apical denticles 83 to 86, and circuli very fine. Color in alcohol with 
back nearly dull avellaneous, sides and below pale to silvery-white. 
Along each row of scales medianly very slightly darker streak. 
Upper edge of caudal peduncle with white blotch below last dorsal 
rays, adjoins an olive-brown saddle, behind which at caudal base 
slightly paler blotch. Fins pale. Upper dorsal and hind caudal 
edges slightly dusky-gray. Length, 253 mm. Takao. 
