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from the Philippines we feel sure that it can not be the same, it evidently corresponds to Thalassoma 

 lutescens (Solander) from Tahiti, a species which we think certainly distinct from Thalassemia lunare. 

 Thalassoma neanis and Thalassoma lutescens have much in common, but they seem to be distinct species, 

 differing in the arrangement of colors. T. neanis lacks entirely the dark cross streaks on the scales 

 characteristic of T. lunare and T. lutescens. 



22. Anampses g-odeffroyi < iiinther. (PI. mm, fig. 1.) 



{Anampses evermanni Jenkins, i 



Several specimens of a large blue Anampses were seen in the market, and one of these was pre 

 served. This is evidently the species called AintmjiKt-s i/mliji'roui by I iiinther from a drawing made at- 

 Hilo by Mr. Garrett. The bluish reticulations of the head are finer, more numerous, and not broken 

 as figured by Garrett, the vertical bars on the scales are more elongate, the stripes oi blue on dorsal 

 and anal narrower, and those on the caudal more elongate. The entire head and body blue or greenish- 

 blue in life, strongly suffused with a tinge of reddish brown; head covered with dark greenish blue 

 reticulations, each about one-third the width of pupil; lips reddish; each scale with a vertical blue 

 bar slightly narrower than the reticulations on opercle, the bars generally connected, forming lines 

 extending across the body; bars reduced on caudal peduncle forming oval or round spot-; dorsal and 

 anal same color as body, broadly edged with deep blue, the membrane with 4 longitudinal narrow 



stripes, those of the dorsal somewhat irregular; caudal reddish orange with stripes which an- more or 

 less broken up into oval and circular spots, the tin broadly edged above and below with deep blue; 

 pectoral and ventrals reddish orange, the former greenish blue at base and along upper edge, the la iter 

 having the spine greenish blue and the membrane Bparsely marked with elongate blue spots 



The specimens called Anampses godeffroyi by .Ionian .v Evermann, and thought to be distinct 



from A. evermanni, differ somewhat in color from the above and may possibly be distinct, as \\ a~ 

 supposed when they were first taken. After the specimen here described had been in formalin a 

 short time the pale horizontal stripes described by .Ionian it Kvormann made their appearance. 

 Other alleged color differences between .1. evermanni and .1. godeffroyi are relative, the vertical lini - 

 on the scales varying somewhat in width and length, and the caudal Btripes being broken up into 

 variously elongated spots. 



It is probable t here fore that Anampses ew rmanni i- j synonym of Anampses godeffroyi, and that the 

 reddish shades on the body, seen in life, fade with removal from the water, the blue being more 



permanent. 



23. Gomphosus sandwichensis < iiinther. 



In the Bishop Museum is a specimen of Gomphosus, with a colored caM of the same specimen. 

 The species is much like Gompliosus tricolor, but it is apparently not the same, and the black opercle 

 indicates that it is Gomphosus sandwichensis Gtinther, a doubtful species referred by Jordan it 

 Evermann to the synonymy of Gomphosus tricolor. 



The cast is green, the upper part of the snout pink-red: a sharp red line behind eye; a black 

 blotch on opercle; base of pectoral y el low; the I'm green with a blue-black distal area; dorsal green, 

 a narrow sharp red stripe along its middle; base .if caudal purple, the- rest green. 



Family SCAR1CHTHYID/E. 



24. Scaridea aerosa Jordan it Snyder, new species. (Fig. 4.) 



This species differs markedly from the other Hawaiian members of the genus in having a broad, 

 vertical brassy band posterior to the pectoral tin, and also in the character of the anterior profile, which 

 is decidedly elevated over the eye. 



Head 3.3 in length to base of caudal; depth 2.8; depth of caudal |>edunele 2/2 in head; eye 4.5; 

 snout 2.8; interorbital space 4.2; scales 23, 8; dorsal ix, 10; anal in, 9. 



Snout blunt, the anterior outline steep between tip of snout and interorbital space, then sloping 

 gently backward to origin of dorsal; jaws equal; cleft of mouth extending to a point below anterior 

 edge of orbit; upper lip double for nearly half its length, the lower one for only about one-fourth; 



