44 fishes of the South Pacific. 
Body oblong, compressed; the upper profile is an evenly 
rounded curve; teeth villiform in jaws with an outer row of small 
canines; villiform teeth on vomer and palatines; premaxillary 
reaching to below the middle of eye; preopercle serrated and with 
a distinct but not deep notch; opercle with a single flat spine; pec- 
torals 1.15 in head; ventrals 1.60 in head; caudal emarginate. 
Color in life is a dull silvery white, with about 12 pale yellow- 
ish longitudinal lines on sides; a distinct black blotch, larger than 
eye, on the lateral line under the anterior base of the soft dorsal 
fin; caudal fin, caudal peduncle, and soft dorsal a bright orange; 
pectoral, anal and ventral whitish, with a slight wash of orange; 
snout and top of head pinkish; a dull, dusky blotch on opercles; 
a wash of yellow on lower part of preopercles. 
This species is near Lutianus melanospilus, but has a shorter 
head and the markings are quite different. 
One specinien, No. 1187 (Fig. 5) B. M., from Shontlandeliae 
Solomons. Length 7.50 in. 
Lutianus bengalensis Bloch. 
Two specimens, Nos. 957* and 1080* B. M., from Fate, New 
Hebrides. 
Seven specimens, Nos. 2149-2155* B. M.,.from Nukuhiva, 
Marquesas Ids. 
Two specimens, Nos. 1430 and 1433 B. M., from Tahiti. 
Czeesio czerulaureus (Lacépeéde). 
Two specimens, Nos. 1111 and 1300 B. M., from Shortland 
Id., Solomons. 
Czesio teres Seale, new species. 
Depth 3.20; head 3.20; eye 4.10; interorbital 3:50; 5iexame, 
Acer? anid 
Body cylindrical, slightly compressed, scaled; villiform teeth 
in jaws, none on palate or tongue; preoperculum entire; mouth 
moderate, somewhat protractile, the maxillary reaching to below 
the anterior line of eye; dorsal continuous, the spines feeble; cau- 
dal deeply forked; base of anal 1.50 in head; pectorals longer 
than head. 
Color in life, upper two-thirds of the body deep blue; lower 
third yellowish white; caudal bright yellow without dusky tip; 
pectorals yellow, the upper base with a deep blue spot; ventrals 
and anal yellowish; dorsal yellow with the upper half bluish, be- 
coming deep blue at tip; a wash of orange on the sides of head; 
no bands of color on sides. 
One specimen, No. 1329 (Fig. 13) B. M., from Shortland Id., 
Solomons. This species is near C. /uzarv7s, but it is a more cylin- 
drical fish, with different markings. 
