302 EXPEDITION OF THE " ALBATROSS/' 1S99-1900. 



by Jordan t^- Evermann, in having a larger eye and longer snout and also in 

 minor color differences. The type of J. pulcherriina came from the South Paci- 

 fic, the type of J. gaimard from Hawaiian Islands. There have been many so- 

 called J. pulcherrima recorded from Hawaii by various collectors and ver>' few 

 have got any which they identified as /. gaimard. The stated differences are so 

 slight that it is doubtful if the Hawaiian ./. (/aimard and /. pulcherrima are 

 really distinct. 



The color of our specimen agrees fairly well with that of Bleeker's Coris 

 formosa in Atlas 1, tab. 19, fig. 3, but he states in his descriptions that J.formosa 

 has more scales than J. gaimardi; the reverse is the case in the figures. 



Thalassoma lunare (Linne). 



Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fi.sh., 1900, 25, p. '40'). 

 Labrus Iniinris Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1758, p. 283. 



One specimen, No. 08960, Oi inches long from Jaluit, Marshall Islands. 



Depth 3.76; head 3.54; eye 5.83; snout 3.04; dorsal VIII, 13; anal II, 

 11; scales 4-28-9. 



Head naked except for a group of 3 small scales on each side of head just 

 above opercles, partly on upper part of opercle. 



Color in alcohol, head a dark purplish brown, with lighter bands running 

 obliquely downward and backward across opercles to edge of gill opening; two 

 light bands crossing lower jaw, one just in front of angle of mouth, the other a 

 little further back; body brownish yellow; a large black blotch across caudal 

 peduncle at base of caudal fin; the prolonged rays of the caudal dusky on their 

 basal third; soft and spinous dorsal with a purplish brown base and broad pale 

 margin; anal similar; pectoral purplish brown at base of upper ray and with 

 oblong similarly colored spot on upper half of pectoral but not reaching the tip. 



Thalassoma purpureum (Forsk.Il). 



Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1905, 25, p. S05. 

 Scarus purpureas Forskal, Descript. Anim., 1775, p. 27. 



One specimen, No. A105, II5 inches long from Whitsunday Island, Pinaki, 

 Paumotu Islands. 



