Carnegie Inst. Washington Pub. 535 — Longley and Hildebrand 



Plate 26 





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Fig. 1. Thalassoma bifasciatum , in " bifasciatum" stage, adult male. (From original in 

 color, painted from life by Manson Valentine.) 







Fig. 2. Xyrichthys psittacus, razor fish, over a basin with soft sand bottom, which it has 

 constructed of fragments of broken coral. To hide from enemies the fish dives into the basin 

 and burrows in the loose sand. 



