FAMILY, I— PERCHLE. 41 



angle of the eye coalesce under the sixth dorsal spine and proceed to the middle of the base of the soft dorsal : 

 the fourth, also arising from the eye, goes along the lateral-line and opposite the sixth dorsal spine curves 

 upwards, going to the end of the base of the soft dorsal : the fifth band, which is the broadest, commences just 

 above the middle of the hind edge of the eye and goes to the upper half of the base of the caudal fin : the sixth 

 from the lower edge of the eye to the middle of the base of the caudal. A dark mark exists at the base of the 

 pectoral, a black blotch on the lateral-Line below the commencement of the soft dorsal fin. 



In the ' Fishes of Zanzibar' it is observed : " Diacope cceruleo-lineata. Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 93, t. 24, f. 3 

 [not M. quinquelineatus* Cuv. and Val.]." Bleeker, Lutjani, p. 40, observes: M. quinquelineatus, C. V. is 

 described from the Mungi mapidi, Russell, and has blue lines which superiorly are parallel to the profile of the 

 back and are continued to the base of the caudal. He doubts if Riippell's fish with the lines going obliquely 

 to the back is the same species. ■ 



The specimen of Bloch's, Lutianus quinquelineatus, 9 inches long, No. 229, is undoubtedly this species, 

 and differs widely from the figured quinquelinearis, the type of which is likewise in existence, both being in a 

 good state of preservation at Berlin. 



Habitat. — Red Sea, East coast of Africa, seas of India : the specimen figured is 6 inches in length and 

 from the Andaman Islands. 



18. Lutianus lunulatus, Plate XII, fig. 4. 



Perca lunulata, Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soc. iii, p. 35, pi. 6. 



Lutjanus lunulatus, Lacep. iv, p. 213 ; Bl. Schn. p. 329 ; Bleeker, Atl. Ich. Perc. t. xvh. f. 1, and Lutjani, p. 64. 



Mesoprion lunulatus, Cuv. and Val. ii. p. 477 ; Bleeker, Sumatra, p. 75. 



B. vii, D. ^Jhr, P- 1^, V. 1/5, A. ^ C. 19, L. 1. 55, L. r. f|, L. tr. 7/21. 



Length of head 2/7, of caudal 1/6, height of body 1/3 to 2/7 of the total length. Eyes — diameter 1/4 of 

 length of head, If diameters from end of snout, and nearly one apart. The distance from the eye to the upper 

 edge of the maxilla equals three-fourths of the diameter of the orbit. The maxilla reaches to below the first 

 third of the orbit. Vertical limb of preopercle with a shallow emargination and an oblique lower limb, its 

 vertical limb is finely, its angle more coarsely serrated, lower limb entire. No interopercular knob. Teeth — 

 large curved canines in the intermaxillaries, an outer row of curved canine-like teeth in both jaws, largest in 

 the lower : villiform ones in a ^-shaped band on the vomer, a narrow one on the palatines, and a small patch 

 near the anterior end of the tongue. Fins — dorsal spines weak, the fourth the longest and nearly equalling the 

 length of the postorbital portion of the head, from it they decrease to the last which is about two-thirds its 

 height : soft portion of the fin rounded, its highest ray equalling one-half the length of its base but not so high 

 as the fourth spine. Pectoral much longer than the ventral, being nearly as long as the head : ventral reach i ng 

 two-thirds of the distance to the anal. Second anal spine longer and stronger than the third : the anterior 

 rays the highest, equalling the length of the base of the entire fin, its lower edge straight, caudal emarginate. 

 Scales — in oblique rows above the lateral-line and in horizontal ones below it : superiorly they extend forwards 

 to nearly above the hind edge of the orbit. Colours — reddish-crimson superiorly becoming silvery -white on the 

 abdomen : golden lines along each row of scales : dorsal, caudal, and anal with a black outer edge and an 

 external white margin : a lunated black band at the base of the caudal fin extending along its outer edges to 

 the end of the fin : pectoral and ventrals yellow. 



Bleeker places Diacope biketnata, C. V. as a synonym of this species, but the type specimen in the Paris 

 Museum has a distinct and rather well-developed interopercular knob, although the emargination of the preopercle 

 is not very deep. The specimen however is not an adult. 



Habitat. — Coast of Sind (where the specimen figured, 10 inches long, was captured) to the Malay 

 Archipelago. 



19. Lutianus fulviflamma, Plate XII, fig. 5 and 6. 



Scicena fulviflamma, Forsk. p. 45 ; Gmel. Lin. p. 1299. 



Perca fulviflamma, Bl. Schn. p. 90. 



? Lutjanus notatus, Bl. Schn. p. 325 (not Bloch). 



Centropomus hober, Lacep. iv, p. 255. 



Sparus antiha doondiawah, Russell, Fish. Vizag. i, p. 76, pi. 98. 



Diacope fulviflamma, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 72, 1. 19, f. 2, and X. W. Fische, p. 94; Cuv. and Val. ii, p. 423; 

 Klunz. Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien, 1870, p. 700. 



Mesoprion^imimaculatus, Quoy and Gaim. Zool. Freyc. p. 304 ; Cuv. and Val. ii, p. 441 ; Bleeker, Perc. 

 p. 42 ; Quoy and Gaim. Voy. Astrol. p. 665, pi. 5, f. 3. 



Mesoprion aurolineatus, Cuv. and Val. iii, p. 496 ; Day, Fish. Malabar, p. 14, pi. iii. 



Mesoprion Russellii, Bleeker,Verh. Bat. Gen. xxii, Perc. p. 41 ; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S67, p. 701. 



Lutjanus notatus, Bleeker, Ternate, p. 233. 



Genyoroge notata, Cantor, Catal. p. 12 ; Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 8 (not C. V.) 



Mesoprion fulviflammia, Bleeker, Amb. ii, p. 532 ; Giinther, Catal. i, p. 201 ; Day, Fish. Mai. p. 13 ; Kner, 

 Xovara Fische, p. 35. 



* The specimen probably referred to is thus marked in the Catalogue, " a. Adult, sine patria. D. xS, A. f , L. 1. SO," and which 

 (omitting the black blotch, which is now imperceptible) I would suggest is L. chrysotcenia : is such a modification of this species ? 



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