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Body with pale brown, with shglit olive tinge. From eye 5 pairs of 

 dusky brown lines radiate. Over body scattered rather large pale 

 spots, in about half dozen rows. Each anterior scale with dark brown 

 median line, becoming submarginal posteriorly. Breast dark brown, 

 with whitish band transversely. Abdomen also dark brown, with 

 2 whitish bands transversely. Five pale blotches along anal base. 

 Iris golden, with dark radiating lines from pupil. Fins all pale. 

 Dorsals with three deep brown vertical bars and alternating narrow 

 pale ones. Anal dark, largely brown, with four whitish submarginal 

 blotches. Caudal with median and marginal brown band. Pectoral 

 whitish. Ventral blackish. 



East Indies and Oceania. A beautiful white-blotched green little 

 fish, rare in collections. We find the Julis hifer Bennett the earliest 

 name for this species. 



52017 U.S.N.M. Negros. Dr. B. Dean. 1 example, 58 mm. 

 58516 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. E. L. Berndt. 1 example, 82 mm. 



Genus CYMOLUTES GUnther 



Cymolutes Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. London, ser. 3, vol. 8, 1861, 

 p. 387. Type Julis praetextata Quoy and Gaimard, designated by 

 Jordan, Genera of Fishes, vol. 3, 1919, p. 318. 



Body oblong, compressed. Snout little high. No hind canines. 

 Scales very small, more than 70. Head naked, or only small patch 

 of rudimentary scales on cheek. Lateral line interrupted. Dorsal 

 spines 9, alike, rays 12 to 14. Anal spines 2 or 3, rays 12 to 14. 



Small fishes of the Indo-Pacific, with rather large head and pale 

 coloration. Though several species have been described likely all 

 are referable to a single widely distributed form. 



CYMOLUTES LECLUSE (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Xyrichthys lecluse Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., 1824, p. 284, 



p. 284, pi. 65, fig. 1. Hawaiian Islands. 

 Cymolutes leclusii Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 207 



(copied); Journ. Mus. Godefifroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 289 (Hawaiian 



Islands) . 

 Cymolules lecluse Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (1903), 



p. 465 (Honolulu). — Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 



vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 327 (Hilo and Honolulu). 

 Julis praetextata Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 3, 1834, 



p. 712, p). 15, fig. 4. "Mauritius." 

 Cymolutes praetextatusBhEEKE-R, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 146, 



pi. 31, fig. 1 (Java, Bali, Celebes, Amboina). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. 



Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 207 (Amboina); Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, 



p. 182 (Zanzibar). — Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 397 



(Ternate).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 409, pi. 90, fig. 1; Fauna 



British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 420, fig. 145.— GiJNTHER, Journ. Mus. 



Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 289 (Pelew Islands). 

 Xyrichthys microlepidotus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, 



p. 52. Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. 



