FISHES OF BORNEO. 275 



ventrals are slightly stained with gray. No. 3647 ; length, 166 milli- 

 meters. 



A valuable food-fish of Borneo; also common in the Philippines. 



Lates calcarifer (Bloch). 



Silvery-gray; fins gray; pectorals yellow. Strong spines on lower 

 margin of preopercle. No. 2490; length, 290 millimeters. 



A valuable food- fish of Borneo; recorded also from the Philippines. 



Epinephelus sexfasciatus (C'uv. and Val.). 



Color brownish, with dull yellowish and brownish spots; six darker 

 vertical bands down sides; fins grayish without distinct markings. 

 Ventrals darker at tips. No. 2098 ; length, 121 millimeters. 



A valued food-fish of Borneo; also recorded from the Philippines. 



Family LUTIANIDiB. Snappers. 

 Lutianus erythropterus Bloch. 



This species is easily distinguished by the white mark in the posterior 

 axil of the soft dorsal which is followed by a deep black area covering 

 the remainder of the top of caudal peduncle. No. 2900; length, 210 

 millimeters. 



A common food-fish of Borneo ; also recorded from the Philippines. 



Nemipterus upeneoides (Bleeker). 



Head 3.45 ; depth 3.50. 



Color yellowish- white with silvery reilection; darker above; a round 

 dusky spot on the lateral line above middle of pectorals. No. 2516; 

 length, 130 millimeters. 



A common food-fish of Borneo; not known from the Philippines. 



Lutianus fulviflamma (Forskai). 



Color white, with longitudinal yellow stripes; a distinct black blotch 

 on each side. Young specimens have a dusky stripe from eye to tip of 

 snout and on uppier portion of preopercles. Pins yellowish. Nos. 2519, 

 2548, 2486, and 2739; length, 100 to 230 millimeters. 



A common and valued food-fish of Borneo; also recorded from the 

 Philippines. 



Lutianus vitta (Quoy and Gaimard). 



Yellowish-white, with a distinct black line along the side from head to 

 caudal. No dusky shadings on dorsal. No. 2493; lengih, 210 milli- 

 meters. 



A food-fish of value in Borneo; also common in the Philippines. 



