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Ogilby seem to show it is also synonymous. However, scales are 

 shown on its preorbital. In brief its characters are: 



Depth 2K; head 4. Snout S% in head; eye 4K, l}{o in snout, l%in 

 interorbital ; maxillary reaches eye; interorbital 3% in head; preopercle 

 edge entire. Gill rakers 21 on lower branch of first arch, ji eye 

 diameter. 



Scales 59 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 more on latter, 75 

 along above lateral line, 62 along below; 12 above, 21 below. 



D. XI, 13, sixth spine 2K in head, first ray 3; A. Ill, 12, third spine 

 2, first ray 2. 



Above plumbeous, each scale with narrow lighter border forming 

 silvery spot behind. Sides with 8 gold bronze bands. Cheek and 

 opercle with 2 broad bronze gold bands, upper from eye to opercle, 

 lower behind mouth angle to preopercle. Spinous dorsal violet. 

 Soft dorsal, anal and caudal plumbeous. Pectoral blue-gray. Ven- 

 tral violet. Length, 431 mm. (Ogilby; McCulloch.) 



KYPHOSUS VAIGIENSIS (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Pimelepierus vaigiensis Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., p. 386, pi. 

 62, fig. 4, 1825 (type locality: lies des Papous; lie Bony). — Duncker, 

 Mitteil. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, p. 151, 1903 (1904) (Singapore). 



Pimelepterus waigiensis Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 498, 1859 

 (Amboj'na; India). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 4, p. 14, 1869 

 (Savay); No. 5, p. 24, 1874 (Savaii; Tahiti). — GIjnther, Journ. Mus. 

 Godeffroy, vols. 3, 4, pts. 5, 6, p. 68, 1874 (Pelew Islands). — Schmeltz, Cat. 

 Mus. Godeffroy, No. 6, p. 12, 1877 (Pelew Islands).— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. 

 Ind. Neerland, vol. 9, p. 17, not pi. (2) 364, fig. 2, 1877 (not specimen; Java, 

 Celebes, Ternate, Amboina, Waigiu, New Guinea). — Gunther, Rep. Voy. 

 Challenger, vol. 1, p. 56, 1880 (Nares Harbor, Admiralty Islands). — Mac- 

 LEAY, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 8, p. 264, 1883 (Engineer 

 Group, New Guinea). — Pohl, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, p. 29, 1884 

 (Ponape). — Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., p. 65, 1884. — Gijnther, Rep. 

 Voy. Challenger, vol. 31, p. 5, 1889 (north of New Guinea). 



Ky-phosus waigiensis (not Quoy and Gaimard) Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1923, p. 41 (Madagascar). 



Kyphosus vaigiensis Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 222, 1928 (Meos 

 Boendi, Wiak Island, New Guinea); vol. 11, No. 5, p. 336, 1931 (reference). 



Pimelepterus marciae (Quoy and Gaimard) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 

 p. 267, 1831 (type locality: Boni, small island near Papua; Batavia). — Rtjp- 

 PELL, Neue Wirbelth. Fische, p. 35, 1835 (Djedda). 



Pimelepterus lemhus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, p. 269, 1831 (type locality: 

 Vanicolo). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 498, 1859 (not speci- 

 men). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 46, 1866 (Zanzibar). — Bleeker, 

 Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, p. 15, pi. (2) 364, fig. 1, 1877 (Batu, 

 Pinang, Singapore, Java, Celebes, Ternate, Batjan, Amboina). — Karoli, 

 Term^sz. Fuzetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 157, 1881 (Sarangoon). 



Kyphosus lemhus Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 

 p. 530, 1904 (Padang). — Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 41, p. 595, 1912 (Wakanoura). — Herre and Montalban, Philippine 

 Journ. Sci., vol. 33, No. 4, p. 437, pi. 7, fig. 2, 1927 (Iba, Calapan, Tablas 

 Island, Iloilo, Dumaguete, Zamboanga, Siasi, Sibutu Islands). — Whitley, 



