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MEMOIES OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Family LUTJANIDAE, 
Genus GLABRILUTJANUS Fowler, 1931. 
GJabrilutjanus Fowler, Bull- U. S. Nat. Mus. 100, xi, 1931, pp. 88 and 95. 
Orthotype, Mesoprion nematophorus Bleeker. 
GLABRILUTJANUS MARSHALLI Whitley. 
Mesoprion atirivif.iaiiis Saville-Kent, Ot. Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 369. Nomen nudum. 
Queensland. 
Mesoprion helenae Saville-Kent, Gt. Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 369. Noynen nudum. Queens- 
land. 
Liitianus nematophorus Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus. vii, 1920, p. 20, pi. i. Hervey Bay, Queens- 
land. Probably not Mesoprion nematophorus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl. viii, 1860, p. 56, 
from Celebes. 
Glabrilutjanns marshaUi Whitley, Ree. Austr. Mus. xviii, April 20, 1932, p. 338. Dimwich, 
Moreton Bay, Queensland. Type in Queensland Museum (No. I. 4723). 
A beautiful specimen (Qld. Mus. No. I. 5390), 250 mm. in standard length, 
from Lome Reef, Townsville ; presented by Mr. George Coates. This fish agrees 
with the excellent figure given by Ogilby of a Hervey Bay example, and has the vomer 
and palatines toothless, a large canine on each side of maxillary symphysis, some 
peg-like teeth in lower jaw', but rest of dentition inconspicuous. A light saddle mark 
occurs just behind dorsal fin, but could easily be overlooked. Ogilby called it Lutjanus 
7 iematopkorus Bleeker, but his figure differs from that in Bleeker’s “ Atlas ” in colora- 
tion and produced rays, but these may vary with age. How'ever, Bleeker’s fish has 
smaller scales, fewer dorsal rays, different form and lepidosis of head and other details, 
so that I am using what is evidently the valid Australian name for the species, 
Glabrilutjaiius marshaUi Whitley, based on what appears to be the young, which 
has the spinous dorsal fin convex, the fifth spine longest, no produced rays, and 
shorter ventral fins, whilst the longitudinal stripes are fewer in number and more 
definitely marked, as are also tlie lines on top of the head. 
Fowler {loc. cit. 1931) has figured Philippine examples with only one much 
produced ray, and caudal fin without dusky edge. 
Gcmis LUTJANUS Bloch, 1790. 
LUTJANUS VITTA (Quoy and Gaimard). 
Serranus vitta Quoy and Guimard, Voy. Uranie Zool. 1824, p. 315, pi. Iviii, fig. 3. Waigiou. 
Lutjanus vitta Fowler, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 100, xi, April-May 1931, p. 138 (references 
and synonyms). 
A specimen about 200 mm. in standard length (Qld. Mus. No. I. 5602) from 
Salamander Rocks, off Cape Cleveland, Queensland, is a female in roe, presented by 
Mr. George Coates. 
