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parts is maintained almost to the ventral surface, where the tran- 

 sition to a lighter hue is gradual. In Hfo the color is more like that 

 presumed to be characteristic of S. handanensis. Brown above 

 median Uno ^vlth minute blue spots; scales below median line edged 

 with bluish white, their centers bluish gray, becoming lighter on belly 

 and blue posteriorly; chin and throat pearly wliitc; a narrow blue 

 stripe beneath eye, below wliich is a broail orange band; a bright 

 orange spot above axil, below which is aline of black and then a coru- 

 leanblue spot; dorsal, caudal, and basal part of anal tinged with 

 reddisli orange, tlie edge of anal bluish. 



STETHOJULIS STRIGIVENTER (Bennett;. 



Rather common in the jjools. The young of this species measuring 

 70 milUmeters or less in length do not have the i)Osterior canines 



present. 



Color in life: Body oHve above, silvery below, bluish on breast and 

 belly, rather i)ur})lish on lower pai't of head; a pearly blue line below 

 eye bordered by brown; Unes on sides silver and olive; dorsal pale 

 orange, narrowly edged with pearly white, the ocellus surrounded by 

 transparent membrane; midtlle of caudal suffused with orange, the 

 outer rays tinted with blue; anal like dorsal; pectorals pink; ven- 

 trals bluish. 



PLATYGLOSSUS NOTOPSIS (Kuhl and Van Hasselt). 



Apparently rare in the pools. The young are brownish black; 

 ocellus on dorsal dead black bordered by orange; a stripe along 

 side, rumiing from snout below eye and extending toward caudal 

 (in many examples broken into spots posteriorly) and 2 shorter 

 stripes below it, pearly blue; 2 lines above the median one, greenish 

 yellow; caudal greenish yellow. 



HALICHCERES OPERCULARIS (GUnther). 



Occasionally seen in the pools. In Hfe the body is silvery with a 

 greenish castj most of the scales edged with brick red or reddish 

 brown, the dorsal ones darker where the reddish color nearly covei-s 

 the scales; a small blackish spot beliind eye, another on opercle, 2 or 

 3 near center of body and another on caudal peduncle; a pale golden 

 stripe bordered by greenish blue below the eye, and a greenish stripe 

 on snout before eye; dorsals with rather irregular vortical or oblique 

 bands of red bordered by dusky, the membrane of fm tinged with 

 golden; ocellus on soft dorsal black, the ring colorless below, orange 

 above; median rays of caudal dotted with rod, the fm narrowly edged 

 with red; anal greenish yellow with rod bands; pectorals suffused 

 with pink; ventrals deep red at base, broadly edged with dead white. 



CORIS ANNULATA (Lacepede). 



Two s])0(unens from the market measuring 270-310 mihinietei-s in 

 lensth. 



