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fin continuous, not deeply notched, the third, fourth and fifth 
spines of equal length, 2.90 in head; the second anal spine 2.75 in 
head; ventrals 3, caudal deeply emarginate, the middle ray 2.75 
in head, the longest ray 1.75. 
.Color in life, pinkish white, a deeper pink on top of head and 
about the mouth. Pectorals pink, with deep red in axis; anal 
pink, with a narrow margin of white and a deep red intermarginal 
line; ventrals pink, the first ray with a white margin; caudal yel- 
lowish with indistinct dusky centre; iris yellow. 
Color in spirits, dorsal, caudal, anal, and ventral with inter- 
marginal dusky areas; a dusky spot in axis. 
Three specimens, Nos. 1384, 1390 (Fig. 13) and 1460 B. M., 
from Tahiti, Society Ids, 
Lutianus marginatus (Bloch). 
Hive Specimens’ INos. 952, 953, 1026; 1850” and, 841* B. M., 
from Faté, New Hebrides. 
Three specimens, Nos. 1184, 1185 and 1186* B. M., from Short- 
land Id., Solomons. 
Two specimens, Nos. 1491 and 1492 B. M., from Tahiti. 
Color in life, silvery, with a wash of pinkish; dorsal pinkish, 
tipped with deeper red; caudal deep red, with a white tip; pec- 
torals, ventrals and anal bright yellow. 
Lutianus gibbus (Bloch). 
Wepche 2.60; shead 2775, including flap; eye 5.30; D. x, 15; 
A. II, 9; scales 11-70-17; interorbital 4.25 in head, 1.75 in snout. 
Body compressed, scales ctenoid and of moderate size; a row 
of modified enlarged scales over nape; depth of caudal peduncle 
equal to width of opercle. Head compresssed, the upper profile 
concave; snout slightly elongate; maxillary scarcely reaching to 
orbit, all but its tip is hidden under the preorbital; premaxillary 
2.75 in head; mandibles equal to length of snout, 2.30 in head; 
large curved canine teeth in each jaw; villiform teeth on vomer 
and palatine, and on jaws inside the canine teeth; gill-rakers 
rather elongate, 22 on the lower limb; vertical limb of preopercle 
with a deep notch; above the notch are a few small serrations, 
below the notch at angle the serrations are coarse; interopercular 
knob large; posterior margin of opercle ending in a sharp point. 
Fins: twelfth ray of soft dorsal the longest, but scarcely equal to 
sixth ray of anal; third anal spine the longest, 2 in length of pec- 
torals, the sixth ray 2.75 in head; base of anal equal to its longest 
ray; pectorals 1.75 in base of dorsal, 1.75 in head, their tip reach- 
ing to a line between vent and origin of anal fin; ventrals 1.75 in 
head; caudal rather deeply emarginate, the upper lobe the long- 
est, the middle ray is one-half length of longest lower ray. 
