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. 1 5 in head; ventrals i.6o 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 

 tin: 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 specimen, No. 11S7 (Fig. 5) B. M., from Shortland Id., 

 Solomons. Length 7.50 in. 



I/Utianus bengalensis Bloch. 



Two specimens, Nos. 957* and 1080" B. M., from Fate, New 

 Hebrides. 



vScven specimens, Nos. 2149-2155* B. M., from Nukuhiva, 

 Marquesas Ids. 



Two specimens, Nos. 1430 and 1433 B. M., from Tahiti. 



Caesio caerulaureus (Lacepe 



Two specimens, Nos. 1111 and 1300 B. M., from Shortland 

 Id., Solomons. 



Caesio teres Scale, new species. 



Depth 3.20; head 3.20; eye 4.10; interorbital 3.50; D. x, 15; 

 A . in, 11. 



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 bauds of color on sides. 



One specimen, No. 1329 (Fig. 13) B. M., from Shortland Id., 

 Solomons. This species is near C. lunaris, but it is a more cylin- 

 drical fish, with different markings. 



