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cc. No large black ocellated spot on and under anterior soft 

 rays of dorsal 

 d. Body sometimes with a black vertical band extending 

 across body under beginning of soft part of dorsal, the 

 color anterior to band being yellow in life, pale in pre- 

 served specimens; color sometimes plainer, brownish 

 above, pale below, with short dark lines on head, and 

 black dots on head and nape; scales in advance of 

 dorsal scarcely reduced, 4 or 5 oblique rows next to 



median line of nape garnoti 



dd. Body without dark crossbars; no dark stripes and spots 

 on head and nape, rather plain grayish in alcohol, 

 largely greenish in life 



e. A vertically elongate dark spot just behind eye, and 

 a small round one at base of last ray of dorsal; 

 caudal fin round in young, becoming straight with 

 age, with acute but not produced outer lobes; 

 scales in advance of dorsal scarcely reduced, 4 or 5 



oblique rows next to median line of nape poeyi 



ee. No black spot behind eye, and none at base of last 

 ray of dorsal, an indefinite one on opercle; margin 

 of caudal straight, with the outer rays somewhat 

 produced; scales in advance of dorsal notably re- 

 duced in size, 7 or 8 oblique rows next to median 

 line of nape caudalis 



Halichoeres maculipinna (Mtiller and Troschel) 



Julis maculipinna Miiller and Troschel, in Schomburgk, Hist. Barbados, 1848, p. 674 — 



Barbados. 

 Iridio meyeri Bean, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 19, 1906, p. 29 — Bermuda; Field 



Columbian Mus., Zool. Ser., vol. 7, 1906, p. 65, fig. 7. 

 Iridio microstomns Bean, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 19, 1906, p. 30 — Bermuda; 



Field Columbian Mus., Zool. Ser., vol. 7, 1906, p. 67, fig. 8. 

 Halichoeres penrosei Starks, Stanford Univ. Pub., Univ. Ser., 1913, p. 59, pi. 7 — Natal, 



Brazil. 

 Iridio similis Nichols, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 33, 1920, p. 61 — Bermuda. 

 Iridio ]renatus Nichols, ibid. 



Found occasionally along the rocky shore of Loggerhead Key, rather more 

 abundant and larger in the coral and gorgonian belt west and north of this key, 

 and most numerous along the outer face of Bird Key reef, where the bottom is 

 thickly strewn with small dead heads of massive coral, overgrown with Sar- 

 gassum and the slit fronds of iridescent Zonaria. 



The color of the bottom in the area just mentioned is prevailingly brown, with 

 which the hues of the fish agree. Over sand patches they are grayer than over 

 other bottom. 



On the head is a pattern of reddish lines; a dorsal stripe on body bounded 

 ventrally by a glistening streak of distinctly yellow cast; ocular stripe not distinct 

 from another through pectoral base, the lateral dark color fading gradually 



