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branch running above eye and angling toward nape; Jower begins again op- 

 posite lower margin of eye, one branch running backward into center of opercle, 

 another above and forking into shoulder; opercular flap with dusky blotch, 

 above tip of pectoral extended an area of pale pink and brown; brownish blotch 

 in middle of body, posterior to middle of soft dorsal; dorsal rays greenish, 

 membranes reddish anteriorlj'^, becoming barred with green posteriorly; black 

 spot in center of first membrane. Caudal pale green, orange distally, specked 

 with reddish brown. Anal rays green, membranes pale reddish with green 

 bars. Ventrals yellowish green; dark spot on breast in front of base. 

 Pectorals dusky pink. 



12609 U.S.N. M. Zanzibar. British Museum. Length, 140(?) mm. 1 example 

 (poor condition). 



51957 U.S.N.M. Negros. Dr. B. Dean. Length, 52 mm. 



56133 U.S.N.M. Luzon. Philippine Commission. Length, 103 mm. 



Semachlorella, new subgenus 



Type. — Julis hifer Lay and Bennett. 



Mouth rather small. First two dorsal spines greatly elongated, 

 three or more times as long as others ; also fifth may be twice length 

 of others, though not so long as first two. Nine black lines radiate 

 from the eye, also extend on iris. 



One species. 



(277/ia, banner; x^^pos, green; ella, diminutive; with reference to 

 the features of the type species.) 



NOVACULICHTHYS BIFER (Lay and Bennett) 



Julis hifer Lay and Bennett, Zool. Beechey's Voyage, 1839, p. 64, pi. 18 



fig. 2. Oahu. 

 Novacula kallosoma Bleeker, Act. Soc.-Sci. Ind. Neerl. (Amboina), vol. 8, 



1860, p. 5. Amboina.— GuNTHER Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, 



pp. 176, 508 (East Indies); Journ, Mus. GodeflFroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 



286 (Ponape, Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaiian Islands). 

 Novaculichthys kallosoma Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, 



p. 145, pi. 31, fig. 3 (Bali and Amboina). — Jordan and Evermann, 



Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, 1903 (1905), p. 527, pi. 41 (Honolulu. 



Pago Pago, Negros). 

 Novaculichthys kallosotnus Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



28, 1905, p. 788 (Negros). 



Depth 3; head 2J4, width 2%. Snout SJ4; eye 4^, l^i in 

 snout, equals interorbital; maxillary extends little beyond front eye 

 edge, though not to pupil, 3% in head; teeth uniserial, conic, pair 

 of canines forward in each jaw; interorbital 5, convex. Gill rakers 

 6 + 13, lanceolate, moderate. 



Scales in lateral line 19 +4 + 1 ; 2 scales above lateral line, 10 below; 

 3 scales along postero-infraorbital. Scales with 30 basal radiating 

 striae, 33 apical; circuli very fine. 



D. II, VII, 12, I, second spine IK ii^ head, first ray 2; A. II, 12, i, 

 third spine 2^, first ray 1^; caudal 13^, convex behind; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2}/g; pectoral 1%; ventral 1}/^. 



