476 TELEOSTEI. ACANTIIOPTERYGII. 



rosy along the back, with a light golden band from the head to the 

 tail along each row of scales. A large black blotch on the lateral 

 line, mostly below it, opposite the commencement of the soft dorsal 

 fin. 



Hob. Bed Sea, east coast of Africa, seas of India, Malay Archi- 

 pelago, and beyond. 



616. (21.) Lntjanus unimaculatus. 



Mesoprion unimaculatus, Quay fy Gaim. Voy. Uranie fy Phys. p. 304. 

 Lutianus' fulviflamma var. russellii. Day, Fish. India, p. 42, pi. xii. 



fig. 5, Suppl 1888, p. 783. 

 Vella chembolay, Mai. ; Shemhara and Currumay, Tamil. 



D.10/13-14. A. 3/8. C.17. L.l.50-54. L.tr.7-8/18. Oec.pyl.5-6. 



This form is so similar to the last that I consider it to be merely 

 a variety, the proportions being the same. The distance from the 

 eye to the snout and the size of the lateral blotch are a little more 

 than in L. fulviflamma. Colour yellow or rosy along the back, 

 with three or four narrow brilliant golden bands passing obliquely 

 upwards and backwards from the lateral line to the base of the 

 dorsal fin, and three or four similar horizontal golden bands below 

 the lateral line. A large black blotch on and mostly above the 

 lateral line from the 22nd to the 31st scales. 



Hob. Eed Sea, seas of India, Malay Archipelago, and beyond. 



617. (22.) Lntjanus johnii. 



Anthias johnii, Sloch, Ich. t. 318. 



Lutianus johnii, Day, Fish. India, p. 42, pi. xiii, fig. 1 (see synon.). 

 Chembolay, Mai. ; Nya-pa-nee, Burm. 



D.10/13-14. C.17. L.1.48. L.r.50/46. L.tr.7/13. (Cajc.pyl.4, Kner.) 



Length of head 3 to 3.J-, height of body 3 in the total length. 

 Eyes diameter 4 to 5 or even 6 in large specimens in length of 

 head, 1^ to 1| from end of snout, and from to 1 apart. Vertical 

 border of preopercle finely serrated, more coarsely so at the angle, 

 which is somewhat produced and rounded, lower border with a few 

 serrations and crenulations. A very indistinct tuberosity on the in- 

 teropercle is sometimes present. Fins dorsal spines strong, in- 

 creasing in length to the fourth, from this they decrease to the last, 

 which is about one fourth shorter ; soft portion of fin somewhat 

 rounded, its longest rays exceed the highest spine. Ventral reaches 

 the vent ; second anal spine equals third spine of dorsal, the rayed 

 portion of anal rounded and rather higher than that of the dorsal ; 

 caudal slightly ernarginate. Scales rows above lateral line parallel 

 with profile of back, those below horizontal. Colour yellowish, 

 lightest on the abdomen, with a large black mark, of varying 

 depths of colour, on the lateral line between the 22nd and 31st 

 scales ; age, season, and locality all exercise an influence on this 



