ICHT1I VO LOGICAL MISCELLANEA. 
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Family LUTJANID/E. 
Lutjanus erythropterus annularis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
■ Lutjanus erythropterus Bloch, Nat. ansi. Fischo iv, 1790, p. 115, pi. ccxlix. “ Japan.” 
? Mesoprion ruhcUus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poise, ii, Oct. 1828, p. 475. Pondicherry. 
Mesoprion annularis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poise, ii, Oct. 1828, p. 484. Java. 
? Mesoprion chirtah Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ii, Oct. 1828, p. 488. Based on 
“ Chirtah ” Russell, Fish. Vizag., 1803, pi. xciii. Vizagapatam. 
IHaeope. met alliens Bleaker’, Nat. Gen. Arch. Ned. Ind. ii, 1846, Topogr. Batav. p. 524. Ex Kuhl 
& Van Hasselt MS. Java (fide Weber & Beaufort, 1911). 
Lutianus erythropterus Day, Fish. India, 1875, p. 32, pi, x, figs. 1-2. Id. Jordan & Thompson, Proe. 
II. S. Nat. Mus. xxxix, 1911, p.453. Id. McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour iii, 1915, p. 141 
(Queensland). Id. Paradice & Whitley, Mem. Qld. Mus. ix, 1927, p. 85 (Pellew Group, 
Gulf of Carpentaria). 
One specimen (I. 4671) with D. xi/15 ; A. iii/ 10 ; P. 16 ; Sc. 48, six 
rows of scales on notched preoperculum and more than ten oblique rows of 
scales above lateral line. It was labelled as Lutianus sp., from “ Bribie Island, 
Moreton Bay, Queensland. Pres. J. Freese. Colours in life : — Bright rosy red, 
with numerous oblique golden lines.” It also has a dark blotch on upper half 
of caudal peduncle, preceded by a contrasted light blotch, but no dark band 
from eye to dorsal is distinguishable. 
From Bloch’s figure of a slender fish with red fins and less than ten 
rows of scales over a fairly straight lateral line, one would not identify this 
specimen as Lutjanus erythropterus, but as Day saw Bloch’s type, and bearing 
in mind the remarks of Jordan & Thompson on this species, I feel obliged to 
use Bloch’s name for the species. The name Mesoprion annularis applies best to 
the Queensland form ; it was proposed by Cuvier and Valenciennes for a 
Javanese fish collected by Kuhl and Van Hasselt, whose manuscript name, 
introduced by Bleeker, is a synonym. 
The Queensland specimen resembles Lutjanus dodecacanthoid.es Bleeker 29 
but has more oblique lines on body and the blotches on the tail, and agrees 
better with Blcekcr’s figure 30 of L. chirtah, which is said to be a synonym of 
L. erythropterus. The “ Chirtah” of Russell has very dark edges to fins. This 
form is near L. malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider), from which the Queensland 
specimen is distinguished by having more fin-rays, more oblique rows of scales 
above lateral line, and a bald area around scales on temples. 
Subfamily PA RADICIC HTHYIN/E nov. 
Paradicichthys venenatus gen. et sp. nov. 
(Plate I, fig. 1.) 
“ Chinaman Fish” Paradice, Medical Journ. Austr. ii, 25, 1924, p. 650, fig. 1. Great Barrier Reef, 
Queensland. Id. Paradice, Quart. Rev. Health Inspect. Assoc. Austr. iv, 3, July 1926, 
p. 44, pi. i, fig. 5. 
23 Bleeker, Atlas Icbth. vii, 1872, pi. ccxcvi, fig. 2. 
30 Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. vii, 1872, pi. occi, fig. 1. 
