NO. 1909. JAPA^'ESE SHORE FISHES— SNYDER. 421 



HALICHOERES POECILOPTERUS (Temminck and Schlegcl). 



Hakodate, Nagasaki, and Oki Island markets; Misaki pools and 

 market. 



HALICHOERES BLEEKERI (Steindachner and Diiderleln). 



Tokyo market. 



HALICHOERES OPERCULARIS (GUnther). 



Tanegashima pools, 5 specimens. In life the body is silvery with 

 a greenish cast, most of the scales edged with brick red or reddish 

 brown, the color darker dorsally where it nearly covers the scales; 

 hghter ventrally; much deeper in region of the dark spots; a pale 

 golden stripe, bordered by greenish blue below eye; a greenish stripe 

 on snout before eye. Dorsals variegated with red, the membrane 

 tinged with golden; ring surrounding ocellus transparent below, 

 orange above. Inner rays of caudal dotted with red; fin narrowly 

 edged vnih red. Anal greenish yellow with red bands. Pectorals 

 suffused ^vith pink; ventrals deep red at base, broadly edged with 

 dead white. 



HALICHOERES TRIMACULATUS (Quoy and Galmard). 



Four specimens 50 milhmeters and less in length, from Tanega- 

 shima, are believed to be the young of this species. Three of them 

 have the characteristic axillary and caudal spots, the latter being 

 absent on the smallest. In addition all have a black dot on lateral 

 line at base of caudal, and 5 broad dusky bands on the body. Of 

 the bands, the second and third tend to coalesce and the first and 

 fourth are rather faint in one example. 



THALASSOMA CUPmO (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Misaki; Tanegashima; Akune. Very abundant in the pools at 

 Tanegashima. 



In life the dark parts along the back and sides are bluish black, 

 the connecting network brick red, the latter color bright and clear 

 between the stripes, while becoming dark on approaching them. 

 There is a brick red stripe along the lower half of body, the parts 

 near it being bright green. The head and a restricted region below 

 the pectoral tinted with brassy; stripe extending backward from 

 mouth, pale red; chin, throat, breast, and beUy tinged with bright 

 red. The dorsal has a narrow transparent border below which is a 

 stripe of brick red, then in succession one of yellowish green, reddish, 

 and brownish black. Caudal green at base, then bluish tinged with 

 red, then yellowish green followed by red. Anal with a basal stripe 

 of reddish bro\vn below which is a yellowish green stripe bordered by 

 blue, then a red stripe and finally a pale greenish border. Pectorals 

 hghtly suffused with. blue. 



mnSTroS DEA (Temminck and Schlejel).) 



Misaki and Sliimizu markets. 



The head is not entirely naked, there being a few small scales 

 behind eye and at upper edge of opercle. A specimen from the 



