112 THE SHORE FISHES. 
soft dorsal and anal with white margins and three jet black spots size of pupil 
on the base of dorsal and two on base of anal; caudal with broad pale margin 
which occupies the terminal half of fin. The other specimen differs in having 
three spots at base of anal. 
LUTIANIDAE. 
Hoplopagrus guentherii Git. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1862, p. 253. Grtpert & Srarks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 101. 
Two specimens 5z and 63 inches long from Acapulco. M. C. Z. 29698 (1 
specimen). 
Lutianus argentiventris (PrTers). 
JorDAN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, ser. 2, 5, p. 455. SNopGrass & HELuER, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 
1905, 6, p. 374. 
Mesoprion argentiventris PeTERS, Monatsb. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869, p. 704. 
Three specimens, M. C. Z. 29561, No. 3340, 72 inches long; No. 3360, 113 
inches long; No. 3361, M. C. Z. 29646, 10z inches long, and three specimens 6 to 
73 inches long, all from Acapulco. Two specimens, 7; and 73 inches long from 
Toboguilla Island, Panama Bay, from among coral. ; 
Lutianus guttatus (STEINDACHNER). 
JorDAN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, ser. 2, 5, p. 456. Grisert & Starks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sei., 1904, 
Pana ei SrernpacuNer, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1869, 60, p. 18, taf. 8. 
Four specimens, M. C. Z. 29553, 48 to 6z inches long from Perico Island, 
Panama Bay, in two fathoms of water. 
Thirteen specimens 33 to 4% inches long from Acapulco. 
The black spot on the side in all our specimens is much larger than the eye. 
The following color note was found among the Acapulco specimens: — ‘‘ Lower 
stripes and belly brassy; back stripes brown; ventrals and anal brown; dorsal 
and caudal with a red margin; central spot black; snout pinkish.” 
The dorsal and caudal margins are now dusky. 
Lutianus aratus (GinTHER). 
JorpAN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, ser. 2, 5, p. 457. 
Mesoprion aratus GiintHER, Proc. Zool. Soe. London, 1864, p. 145. 
One specimen 5% inches long from Perico Island, Panama Bay. 
Lutianus marginatus (Cuvier & VALENCIENNES). 
Day, Fishes of India, 1875, p. 44, pl. 13, fig. 4. 
Diacope marginata Cuv. & Vau., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1828, 2, p. 320 (425), 
