262 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



590. Lutianus caeruleolineatus (Riippell). Marcus I. (Bryan & Herre); New Guinea (Macleay); 



East Indies. 

 Mesoprion quinquelineatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 145; not of Bloeh. 



591. Lutianus g-ibbus (Forskal). Ti'ava; Mala'i; Mala'i pa'pae. Samoa; New Britain; Tahiti; 



New Ireland; Waigiu; Papua; Borabora (as Mesoprion borensis Cuvier & Valenciennes); 

 Solomon Is. and New Hebrides (Seale); East Indies. 

 (Holocentrus boution Lacepede; Diacope bottonensis Cuvier & Valenciennes.) 

 Ten large examples were taken at Apia and Pago Pago. The species is easily known by the deep 

 notch on the preopercle. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, dark olive green, the belly bright coppery red; each 

 scale with a fine pale blue-green spot, these forming continuous lines; head mostly coppery red; 

 caudal peduncle abruptly (obliquely) black behind dorsal; dorsal dark brown, the soft fin with white 

 edge, the soft rays black at base; caudal black at base, golden at tip, with a maroon stripe in each 

 lobe; anal coppery red with a black submarginal shade and a white edge; ventral coppery red, with 

 blackish shade; pectoral pale orange, the axil black. 



A specimen from Apia was olive above, very bright coppery red below; faint pale streaks along 

 rows of scales; dorsal coppery red, dusky shaded at base, the edge yellow; anal dusky red, edged with 

 whitish; ventral similar to anal; pectoral light orange-red. 



592. Lutianus bohar (Forskal). Mumea. Samoa; Tahiti; Paumotus; Solomon Is. (Seale); New 



Guinea (Macleay); Marcus I. (Bryan & Herre); Thornton I. (Fowler); East Indies. 



Two large examples were obtained at Pago Pago. This fish has the reputation of being always 

 poisonous, the only species not Plectognath of which this statement is made. The two round pale 

 spots below the dorsal fin are diagnostic. 



Life colors, deep brick red everywhere, blackish on back, each scale with a whitish vertical spot, 

 these forming lines along the rows of scales which are very oblique above lateral line, horizontal 

 below; a dark dash along maxillary and behind it (in one specimen only); two rounded pale blotches 

 along base of soft dorsal; dorsal blackish maroon, a narrow pale edge; caudal dark maroon, a narrow 

 dark edge (the lower lobe longest, the fin deeply forked ); anal darker red in front, with pale edge; 

 pectoral deep red above and in axil, pale below; ventral mesially blackish red, pale edge. Dorsal x, 

 13; anal in, 8; scales 8-64; canines large. 



593. Lutianus bidens (Macleay). New Guinea. 



Oenyoroge bidens Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1883, 230, New Guinea. 



594. Lutianus argentimaeulatus (Forskal). A'a; Nanue. Samoa; Kingsmill I.; New Britain; 



New Guinea (Macleay). 

 Mesoprion garretti Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, 1873, 15, tal. 13, fig. B, Kingsmill I. 



Of this species four fine specimens were taken at Apia. The largest, known as a'a, is nearly 2 

 feet in length. Two others still much larger were seen but not taken. The species bears a strong 

 superficial resemblance to Lutianus griseus of the Atlantic. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, olive, flushed with very dark coppery red; belly dark cop- 

 pery red; a narrow blue streak below eye; fins all deep coppery red; ventral and anal black towards 

 edge with pale anterior margin; caudal with a narrow black margin. 



Another specimen from Apia, called ganue, had the colors of Lutianus griseus, the Atlantic species — 

 dull green, scales darker in center; lower parts, with all fins, more or less coppery red; anal pale-edged ; 

 a blue streak below eye. 



595. Lutianus olivaceus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). "Waigiu. Perhaps same as preceding. 



596. Lutianus roseus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Ulea, Caroline Is. 



Based on a drawing, a very doubtful species. Red; dorsal xm, 12, with blue spots. It also is 

 probably identical with Lutianus argentimaculatus. 



597. Lutianus rivulatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). XJiui; Nanue. Samoa; East Indies. 



Of this well-marked species two fine specimens were taken at Apia. Life colors of one called 

 lanue, dark olive, each scale with a blue spot; belly coppery with blue stripes; head closely covered 



