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pale cross band, bordered with blackish, on each side of chin midway of length of mandible; dorsal 
dusky, slightly mottled with lighter, especially anteriorly on soft dorsal; caudal blackish, with a narrow 
white edge and with afew small whitish spots posteriorly; anal blackish, with pale edge; ventrals 
dusky; outer two-thirds of pectorals blackish, with pale outer edge and with three pale crossbars, the 
two anterior ones incomplete, being represented in the middle of the fin by two or three separated 
round pale spots. 
A single young specimen, 3.50 inches long, from Aparri, agrees with the figure of Bleeker except 
in the coloration of the pectorals. Owing to its small size, we can not be certain that the specimen is 
not the young of Bloch’s Epinephelus brunneus. Bloch’s figure, however, shows a considerably different 
coloration. From Doctor Boulenger’s redescription of 2. brunneus from a hali-grown individual from 
the Chinese Sea, our specimen differs in the following particulars: (1) In that the scales are largely 
ctenoid; (2) that the lower opercular spine is not as far back as the upper; (3) that the maxillary is not 
scaly; (4) that the third anal spine is shorter, rather than longer, than the second. It is difficult to 
compare the coloration, owing to the different age of the specimens and the lack of detail in Doctor 
Boulenger’s description. Serranus kawamebari of Richardson (not Temminck & Schlegel), which is 
thought by Doctor Boulenger to be a synonym of Epinephelus brunneus was said by Sir John Richardson 
to have the pectorals colorless (size of specimen, 6 inches). Bloch’s fish had the pectorals barred. 
PLESIOPS Cuvier. 
. (Pharopteryx Riippell.) 
122. Plesiops nigricans (Riippell). 
Three examples, 5 inches long, from Calayan. Dorsal spines 12. 
123. Plesiops melas (Bleeker). 
* Four specimens, 2 to 2.75 inches, from Calayan. Dorsal spmes 11; body without blue spots or lines. 
Family PRIACANTHID. 
PRIACANTHUS Cuvier. 
124. Priacanthus hamrur (Forskal). 
One specimen, 9.50 inches long, from Calayan. Uniform light scarlet in life. 
Family LUTIANIDA. 
LUTIANUS (Bloch). 
125. Lutianus argentimaculatus (Forskal). 
A specimen, 7.50 inches long, from Calayan, in a brackish estuary; one 5 inches long from Camp 
Balete, Rio Baco, Mindoro, above tide; and one, 4 inches, from Iloilo. Life colors of Calayan specimen 
dark olive green above lateral line, below dark red, more or less spotted and blotched with silvery; a 
wavy line of dark blue green below eye; ventral and anal red, edged with white; pectoral red. 
126. Lutianus kasmira (Forskal). 
A single example, 5 inches long, from Fuga Island. 
127. Lutianus lineatus (Quoy & Gaimard). 
A specimen, 4 inches long, from Lubang, and one from Aparri, 3 inches. 
128. Lutianus russelli (Bleeker). Daragdarag. 
A specimen 3.50 inches long from Cuyo, and one of the same size from Iloilo. In life, dark 
greenish above lateral line; side and belly silvery; each side crossed by five light orange lines, the 
upper one short, the second extending from the eye to the large brown spot on lateral line beneath first 
dorsal ray; third and fourth extending from gill-opening to caudal; fifth from pectoral to caudal; 
pectoral white, the other fins washed with light orange; no dark spot at base of pectoral. 
The identification of these specimens with this species of Bleeker is rendered possible only by the 
full description of the life colors by Mr. McGregor, all traces of the orange stripes having disappeared 
in the preserved specimens. We are not certain that L. russelli is distinct from L. fulviflamina (Forskal). 
The young specimens recorded from Cavite by Jordan & Seale as Lutianus russelli are not this species, 
but are more probably L. quinquelineatus. 
