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Teeth — generic. Scales — small, imbedded in mncns. Colours — grayisb-brown, with small 
wbite dots. 
A third species, with 7 or 8 dorsal spines and a more elongated body, has been found at 
the Seychelles, and appears to be G. compressus, Lienard. 
For Ltjt JANUS Bengalensis read L. hasmira. 
Forshal’s species appears to be identical with Solocentrus Bengalensis, Bloch, but the 
variety he mentions with a black lateral blotch is S. quinquelinearis, Bloch, and is 
certainly a distinct species, the latter differing, irrespective of colouring, in many 
important points from the former, for its preopercular notch is deeper, its eye larger, its 
snout more rounded, &o. In some specimens the bands on the side are red, not blue. 
Lutjanus argentimaculatus. Add synonym. 
Mesoprion garretti, Griinther, Fische Siidsee, p. 15, t. xiii, f. B. 
For Lutjanus quinquelineatus read cjieuleolineata. Add synonym. 
Mesoprion ccendeolineata, Klunz. F.R.M. p. 15. Erase synonym 
Solocentrus quinquelineatus, Bl. Schn, as this appears to have been a misprint for S. 
quinquelinearis, and referred to Bloch’s figure No. 239. The species here described is 
identical with one of Bloch’s specimens thus marked in the Berlin Museum. 
Lutjanus fulviilamma. Omit from synonyms. 
Sparus antiha doondiatcah, Russell, Fish. Vizag. i, p. 7G, pi. 98. 
Mesoprion unimaculatus, Quoy and Gaim. Yoy. Freyc. p. 304, &c. 
„ aurolineatus, Cuv. and Yal. hi, p. 496. 
„ Eussellii, Bleeker, Perc. p. 41. 
Lutjanus notatus, Bleeker, Ternat. p. 233. 
Genyoroge notata, Cantor, Catal. p. 12. 
Mesoprion ehrenhergii (Peters) Boulenger, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 665. 
Lutjanus eulviflamma, var. Russellii. Add synonyms as omitted from last species. 
Lutjanus russellii, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. vih, p. 71, Perc. t. xxii, f. 2. 
Add Lutjanus nigra. 
Scicena nigra, Forsk. Desc. Anim. p. 47 ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1300. 
Lutjanus nigra, Bl. Schn. p. 326. 
Liacope nigra, Cuv. and Yal. ii, p. 431 ,* Rupp. N.W. Fische, p. 93, t. xxiv, f. 1; Klunz. 
Fische, R. M. p. 11. 
Proamhlys niger, Gill, Proc. Ac. N. Sc, Phil. 1862, p. 236. 
{Young.) 
Liacope macolor, Cuv. and Yal. ii, p. 415 ; Less. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. iv, p. 409, and Yoy. 
Coq. Zool. ii, p. 230, pi. xxii, f. 2. 
Mesoprion macolor, Bleeker, Celebes, hi, p. 753. 
Geyiyoroge macolor et nigra, Gunther, Catal. i, p. 176, Fish. Zanzibar, p. 14. 
Macolor typus, Bleeker, Amboina, Ned. T. Dierk, h, p. 277. 
Lutjanus macolor, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. vih, p. 75, Perc. t. Ixv, f. 3. 
B vh, D. P- 17, Y. 1/5, A. q. 17, L. 1. 45-50, Case. pyl. 4. 
Length of head 3|, of caudal fin 4^ to 4^, height of body 3 to 31 in the total length. 
Eyes — 3l to 4, diameters in the length of the head, 1 diameter from the end of the snout, and 
1 apart. Upper profile of head very convex. Lower jaw the longer. Yertical limb of 
preopercle with a deep notch to receive a large interopercular knob, and its lower edge 
serrated. Fins — dorsal and anal with their soft parts pointed, pectoral long, reaching the 
anal. Caudal emarginate. Colours — adult, of a grayish-black, immature, dark purplish, 
nearly black (belly bluish) , with several light spots along’ the base of the dorsal fin. A light 
band along the middle of the body and tail fin. Another from the eye over the jaws, 
and a third down the opercle. Fins dark, the posterior ends of dorsal and anal fins light- 
coloured. Caudal lobes tipped with white. 
Bleeker considered that Lutianus nigra to be distinct from L. macolor. 
Hahitat . — Red Sea, East Coast of Africa, Navigator Islands to the Malay Archipelago, 
and Mr. Haly in 1887 had an example sent from the Maldives to the Ceylon Museum. 
1. Priacanthus blochil Add synonyms. 
Scicena hamruhr, Forsk. Des. An. p. 45. 
Anthias hamruJir, Bl. Schn. p. 307. 
Priacanthus hamrulir, Cuv. and Yal. iii, p. 104 ; Giinther, Catal. i, p. 219 ; Bleeker, Atl. Ich. 
vii, p. 13, Perc. t. Ixxv, f. 3. 
