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Dorsal XII, 11§; anal II, II5; scales 3-27-S§, 14 poros in lateral line on left, 

 side and IS on right; head 3.33; dejith 2.13 in length without caudal; eye 2.72 

 in head; snout 4; outer teeth in lioth jaws much enlarged and conical; pre- 

 orbital serrate. 



Color, plain brown ; all the fins brown except t hat the anal is dusky anteri- 

 orlj' and the upper and lower margins of caudal much darker than the middle 

 rays. 



Chromis caeruleus fCuviER & Valenciennes). 



.Jordan & Sealb, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1906, 25, p. 291). 



Helioses caenikus Cuv. it Val., Hist. Nat. Poi.ss., 1830, 5, p. 372 (497). 



No. 08880, twenty-one specimens, l| to 2i inches long, from Taritari, 

 Gilbert Islands. Some of these specimens appear to have a double row of teeth 

 in the lower jaw in front, having two large prominently projecting teeth on each 

 side of symphysis of lower jaw. 



No. 08862, four specimens 2l to 2] inches long from Kusaie, Caroline Is- 

 lands. 



Nineteen specimens, M. C. Z. 29534, I5 to 2l inches long from Fakarava, 

 Paumotu Islands. 



These specimens agree better with Cuvier & Valenciennes's description of 

 C. lepisunis than with C. caeruleus, but we follow .Jordan & Scale, who make 

 C. lepisurus a synonym of C. caeruleus. 



LABRIDAE. 



Stethojulis strigiventer (Bennett). 



Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., 1862, 1, p. 131, tab. 43, fig. 1. Gunther, Cat., 1862, 4, p. 140. 

 Julis strigivenler Bennett, Prof. Zool. .Soo. Lond., 1832, p. 184. 



One specimen, No. 08954, 3io inches long from Wotje, Marshall Islands. 

 No. 09096, and nine specimens 08905, M. C. Z. 29477, 1 to 2 inches long from 

 Truk, Caroline Islands; No. 09089, eleven specimens, \\ to 21 inches long from 

 Moen, Caroline Islands. No. 05892, M. C. Z. 29476, two specimens, \\ and 2 

 inches long from Fakarava, Paumotu Islands. 



Each one of No. 08905 has a small black spot on the base of caudal just 



