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with wavy streaks of bright blue; dorsal greenish yellow; caudal same, dusky toward tip, with dusky 

 edge; pectoral dusky, with pale edge; anal golden, the first soft rays dusky with narrow pale edge. 



A specimen called vi'ui was clear olive green, bronze-orange on belly; each scale above with a 

 small round pale-blue spot; head brassy yellow, entirely covered with light clear-blue streaks and 

 vermiculations; maxillary yellow; fins all soiled yellow, brightest on edge. 



598. Lutianus marginatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Taiva; Tagau; Tamala; Lanue; Nanue. Samoa; 

 Tahiti; Louisiades; Vanicolo; Oualan; Thornton I.; New Hebrides and Shortland I. (Seale) . 

 Of this species, by far the most abundant of the genus, about 40 specimens were preserved — from 

 Apia and Pago Pago. Life colors were noted in various specimens as follows: 



(1) Specimen from Apia called tuira. Olive above, each scale edged with brassy, the belly grad- 

 ually shaded to brassy orange; lower parts of head bright coppery; front of head dusky purplish 

 brassy about eye; dorsal blood-red, paler at base, a narrow pale edge; caudal deep wine-color with a 

 pale edge; anal bright golden, the first soft rays darker; ventral pure golden, the first rays paler, the 

 last duller; pectoral golden, the lower rays paler. 



(2) Specimen called tagau, from Apia. Golden olive; yellow below; lower side of head marbled 

 bluish gray and coppery red ; dorsal scarlet, darker above, with a blackish stripe lengthwise and a 

 whitish edge; caudal deep wine-red with whitish edge; pectoral and ventral golden; anal yellow with 

 blackish and whitish edges. 



(3) Specimen called tamala, from Apia. Brassy orange, bright on belly, coppery on lower part 

 of head, dusky greenish shaded on back; head bright scarlet below with blue streaks about sub- and 

 interopercle; dorsal scarlet with a broad black band and wdiite edge; caudal dark wine-color, pale- 

 edged; anal golden, darker anteriorly, and pale edged; ventral deep golden; pectoral light yellow. 



(4) Also called tamala, from Apia. Coppery red, rather pale, greenish above; each scale edged 

 with coppery; head deep coppery red, paler creamy red below with grayish shades; lower jaw gray; 

 no black spot; belly yellow; dorsal blackish red, very deep paler below-; soft dorsal with pale edging; 

 caudal blackish red, edge paler; anal golden, deeper yellow anteriorly; ventral golden; pectoral trans- 

 parent olivaceous. 



(5) Young specimen from Apia. Very pale olive, the sides silvery gray, unmarked, the lower 

 parts golden shaded; lower parts of head with blue and golden markings; dorsal fin pale at base, with 

 broad edging of maroon black, and a narrow white margin; caudal grayish; dark maroon distally, with 

 a white margin; lower fins all clear golden. 



(6) From Apia. Olive green, belly orange, no spot; lower part of head scarlet over whitish; 

 dorsal red, first with pale middle; soft dorsal dark-edged; caudal deep wine color, with white edge; 

 ventral and anal golden; pectoral yellowish. 



599. Lutianus unicolor (Alleyne & Macleay). Percy 1.; New Guinea. 

 Oenyorogc unicolor Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1876, 266. 



600. Lutianus semicinctus (Quoy & Gaimard). Waigiu; Eawak; New Guinea (Macleay); Kings- 



mill I.; Fiji; East Indies. 



601. Lutianus fulvus Forster. Tahiti; Guam. 



602. Lutianus rufolineatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Fiji; Waigiu; Papua; East Indies. 

 Biacope ritj'olineata Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 531, 1830, Papua. 

 IHacopcvitiaiius Hombron <k Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sua, 37, taf. 2, fig. 2, Fiji. 



Mesoprion ambomensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., ill, 259, Amboina. 

 Mesoprion melanospilos Bleeker, op. cit., 750, Celebes. 



603. Lutianus goldiei (Macleay). New Guinea. 



Mesoprion goldiei Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1883, 233, New Guinea. 



604. Lutianus parvidens (Macleay). New Guinea. (Macleay, op. cit., 234.) 



605. Lutianus caudalis Cuvier & Valenciennes. Vanicolo. 



606. Lutianus waigiensis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Waigiu; North Australia. 



607. Lutianus marginipinnis (Macleay). New Guinea. 



Mesoprion marginipinnis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 18S3, 254, Normanby I. (New Guinea). 



