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Base of soft dorsal pale rosy-red. also same of anal and caudal. First 

 and second rays of soft dorsal and anal, also outer caudal rays, pale 

 gray or dull white. Tips of anterior dorsal and anal rays just behind 

 pale edge, also tips of caudal lobes, blackish. Other fins more or less 

 pale orange. Pectoral and ventral pale rosy, latter with a whitish 

 margin. Axil of pectoral deep brown. Upper edge of opercle deep 

 blackish-brown. Iris with a broad deep brown vertical band continu- 

 ous below. Peritoneum black. 



Length 8| inches. 



A single example from Padang, Sumatra. Coll. A. C. Harrison. Jr.. 

 and Dr. H. M. Hiller. 



According to RiippelP and Day- the iris is marked with a rather 

 large broad black vertical bar. Bleeker has described a form which 

 he identified Avith M. murdjan^ but no mention is made of this ocular 

 bar, or is it shown on his figure. Dr. Gilnther has indicated a dark 

 blotch on the upper part of the iris in his.* 



Myripristis chryseres Jordan and Evermann. 



L. c, p. 171. Hilo, Honolulu. (U. S. Fish Comm.) 



Co-type of Myripristis chryseres Jordan and Evermann with a rather 

 large dark blotch on iris above pupil. Dr. Giinther's figure of M. 

 niurcljarf is probably this species, though it differs in the dark spot 

 above pectoral axil. It also shows about 35 scales in lateral line to 

 base of caudal. 



Myripristis argyromus Jordan and Evermann. 



L. c, p. 172. Hilo, Honolulu. (U. S. Fish Comm.) 



Myripristis murdjan Fowler, I. c, p. 501. Sandwich Islands. (^Dr. J. K. 

 ToA\Tisend.) (Not of Forskal.) 



The example in Dr. Townsend's collection appears to belong to this 



species. 



HOLOTRACHYS Giinther. 

 .Tourn. Mus. Godcf. (Fische der Siidsee), III, 1S74, p. 93 (lima). 

 Holotrachys lima (Valenciennes). 



Myripristis lima Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 1831, p. 371. Islc-de- 

 France. (M. Dussumier.) 



One from Hawaiian Islands. Dr. J. K. Townscnd. 



^ Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika, Fisch., 1828, p. 86, PI, 23, fig. 2. 

 ' Fishes of India, II, 1876, p. 170, PI. 41, fig. 2. 



KXat.Tijds.Ned.Ind., IV, 1853, p. 109. Amboina.— Ved. Tijds. Dierh., 

 IV, 1874, p. 188. Java; Cocos; Batu; Celebes; Amboina; Cerani; Goram. 

 * Journ. Mus. Godef. (Fisclie der Siid«ee), IV, 1875, PI. 61. 

 '" L. c. 



