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terminally, distinctly bright scarlet inframarginal line, tips beyond almost 

 white, scales of entire fin pale indigo; rays similar, membranes of soft portion 

 scarlet, mottled with pale, becoming somewhat yellowish under bar. Caudal 

 rays blue, membranes very pale reddish mottled with hyaline, slightly yellowish 

 at tips of lobes. Anal spines blue, scales similar, but showing purplish bar at 

 base of fin; membranes hyaline, with slight yellowish shade mottled paler. 

 Ventral rays pale bluish. Pectorals hyaline pink, dusky at upper base. Iris 

 bluish and very pale golden. 

 11 examples. Gane Road. December 13, 1909. Length, 70 to 93 mm. , 



Genus PSEUDOCHEILINUS Bleaker 



Pseudocheilinus Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (December 10), 1861, p. 409. 

 Type Cheilinus hexataenia Bleeker, monotypic. 



Body oblong, compressed. Head attenuated. Eye small. Upper 

 front canines large, flare out and backward. No hind canine. Pre- 

 opercle entire. Scales large, 23 to 29 in lateral line, which inter- 

 rupted. Cheeks and opercles with large scales, 2 rows on former. 

 Dorsal with 9 subequal spines, rays 11. Anal with 3 spines, median 

 longest, rays 9. 



One species, in the Indo-Pacific. 



PSEUDOCHEILINUS HEXATAENIA (Bleeker) 



Cheilinus hexataenia Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N^erl. (Amboina), vol. 2, 



1857, p. 4. Amboina. 

 Pseudocheilinus hexatenia Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, 



p. 73, pi. 23, fig. 2 (Amboina, Goram). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 



vol. 4, 1862, p. 134 (East Indies). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. 



Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 557 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat, 



Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 455, pi. 51fe, fig. 2 (types of Cossyphus echis 



Guichenot). — Steindachner, Abhandl. Senckenberg. Ges., vol. 25 



1900, p. 441 (Ternate).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 366 



(Solor, Borneo Bank, Karkaralong Island). 

 Pseudocheilinus psittaculus Kner and Steindachner, Sitzs. Akad. Wiss. 



Wien, vol. 54 (1), 1866, p. 376, fig. 7. Phoenix Islands, Polynesia. 

 Cossyphus echiis Guichenot, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 5, 



1869, p. 197, pi. 12, fig. 5. Madagascar. 

 Pseudocheilinus octotaenia Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 19, 1899 



(1900), p. 64, fig. 22. Honolulu. 

 Pseudocheilinus evanidus Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 



vol. 22, 1902 (1903), p. 192. Hilo, Hawaii.— Regan, Trans. Linn. Soc. 



London, (2) Zool., vol. 12, 1907, p. 231 (Seychelles, Amirante). 



Depth 2% to 22^; head 2% to 2%, width, 2}i to 2}i. Snout 

 2^ to 33^; eye 3% to 43^, 13^ to 13^ in snout, equals interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches % to ^ to eye, 2^ to 3^^ in head; interorbital 

 3^ to 4l}/s, convex; hind preopercle edge minutely serrate. Gill 

 rakers 2 + 8, short feeble points. 



Scales in lateral line 15 to 18 + 4 or 5 (or 2 + 6) +2; 2 scales above 

 lateral line, 7 below, 5 predorsal. Scales with 9 to 17 basal radiating 

 striae, apical 13 to 32; circuli fine. 



