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Seychelles Islands, Amirantes Islands, D'Arros Island, off east side, 

 depth 29-110 meters, Mar. 9, 1964, IIOE Sta. F-105, 80.3 mm. 

 USNM 200725, Seychelles Islands, Amirantes Islands, near St. 

 Joseph Island, southwest of Ressource Island, depth 27-31 meters, 

 Alar. 7, 1964, IIOE Sta. F-95, 74.5 mm. USNM 200726, Seychelles 

 Islands, near Praslin, south of Round Island, depth 12-15 meters, 

 Feb. 22, 1964, IIOE Sta. F-61, 76.5 mm. USNM 200727, Seychelles 

 Islands, Amirantes Islands, Eagle Islands off north end, depth 6-9 

 meters, Alar. 4, 1964, IIOE Sta. F-85, 49 mm. 



Description. — Counts are recorded in table 2, and measurements 

 made on the holotype and paratypes are expressed in thousandths of 

 the standard length in table 6. 



Vomer with teeth, none on palatines; 6 canine teeth (3 on each 

 side) near tip of loAver jaw; spinous dorsal fin connected by membrane 

 to first soft dorsal ray nearly opposite tip fifth dorsal spine; ninth 

 branched pectoral ray longest; none of the caudal fin rays elongated 

 and projecting; scales in zigzag row around caudal peduncle 25. 



Color in alcohol. — -Body light tan, upper sides and back with 

 9 dusky cross bars, one in front of spiny dorsal, 7 along base of 

 dorsal and one on caudal peduncle; 3 lengthwise rows of small dark 

 spots across dark cross bars becoming 2, then 1, row on caudal 

 peduncle; a broad light band along midside without spots; along 

 middle of lower side 7 or 8 dark spots, each at the dorsal end of a 

 light brown bar that fades ventrally and not reaching anal fin base; 

 pair of small dark spots at base of caudal fin; caudal fin minutely 

 spotted distally; 6 brown spots in a row across head behind eyes 

 with a few dark spots or a pair of dark spots posteriorly in interorbital 

 space. The most characteristic black spots are the 3 in a row beginning 

 between bases of pectoral and pelvic fins and continuing evenly 

 spaced to a vertical line through the middle of a light interspace 

 between the first 2 dark bars at base of dorsal fin; spiny dorsal fin 

 blackish; 2 rows of dark spots lengthwise along anal and 3 in soft 

 dorsal, the distal row in each fin composed of very tiny dark spots. 



Discussion. — Parapercis trispilota differs from P. xanihozona, P. 

 kamoharai, and P. somaliensis in the same ways that P. bivittata 

 differs from them, except in color pattern. Parapercis trispilota and 

 P. bivittata are distinguished adequately under "Discussion" in P. 

 bivittata. 



The name "trispilota" refers to the 3 dark spots on the area below 

 the depressed pectoral fin. 



Additional Species 



In addition to the four new species, four other species of Parapercis 

 were collected by the three expeditions: P. hexophthalma (Cuvier and 



