140 THE SHORE FISHES. 



6-46-11; No. 3167 has head 3 m length; depth 5.84; orbit 6.38 in head; dis- 

 tance from tip of snout to corner of mouth 2.8; tip of upper Hp to orbit 2.25; 

 interorbital 10.4; pectoral 2.8; dorsal rays 22; anal I, 14; scales 6-46-11. 

 No. 3168 has head 3 in length; depth 6.42; orbit 7.17 in head; distance from 

 tip of snout to corner of mouth 2.48; tip of upper lip to orbit 2.17; interorbital 

 10.1; pectoral 2.71 ; dorsal rays 22; anal I, 14; scales 6-46-11. 



Nos. 3166 and 3167 are essentially alike in color, each having a large irregular 

 black blotch on the side immediately back of tip of pectoral, beginning on a 

 level with opercular angle and extending in No. 3166 to the belly and not quite 

 to it in No. 3167, the spot being fainter below; general color of body and upper 

 part of head, dark purplish brown, each scale margined with yellowish, giving 

 the specimen a cross-hatched appearance; dorsal and anal membranes mottled 

 with white; caudal in No. 3166 brownish olive, in No. 3167 it is mottled like 

 dorsal and anal; No. 3168 is markedly different in color, almost uniformly dull 

 yellowish tending to brownish on back; a longitudinal dark stripe on axis from 

 just below angle of opercle to caudal, the stripe is composed of spots, each occupy- 

 ing most of a scale, anteriorly the spots are in pairs, posteriorly they are single 

 and on the lateral line; all the fins are plain yellowish, no mottling. 



Thalassoma duperrey (Quoy & Gaimard). 



Jordan & Evbrmann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Coram., 1905, 23, pt. 1, p. 302, fig. 1.30, pi. .35. 

 Julis duperrey Qdoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie. Zool., 1821, p. 268, pi. 56, fig. 2. 



One specimen 6 inches long from Toboguilla Island. 



One specimen, M. C. Z. 29404, 41 inches long from Acapulco. 



The following color note was with the last specimen, M. C. Z. No. 29404: — 

 "Shoulder and front of pectoral canary-yellow; belly and rest of body wine- 

 red; looks blue in water on top; head pinkish black; chin blue; pectoral spot 

 blue-black; darker sublateral band; caudal black; dorsal and anal body color 

 with a light margin." 



Thalassoma purpureum (Forskal). 



Jordan & Evbrmann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Coram., 1005, 23, pt. 1, p. 295. 

 Scania yurpureum Forsk.Il, Descript. .\nim., 1775, p. 27. 



One specimen, No. 3169, 16 inches long, probably from Cook Bay, Easter 

 Island. 



This specimen is a faded counterpart of Scams georgii (Bennett, Fish. 

 Ceylon, 1834, pi. 24) and resembles very closely Ruppell's figure of Julis semi- 

 coeruleus (Neue Wirb. Fische, Atlas, 1828, taf. 3, fig. 1). 



