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Julis purpurea (part) Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 404; Fauna 



British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 414. 

 Julis punctatus Seale, Occas. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 1, No. 3, 1901, p. 91. 



Agana, Guam. 

 Thalassoma cyanogaster (not Valenciennes) Jordan and Seale, Bull. 



Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 305, fig. 53 (Apia and Pago Pago, 



Samoa). 



Depth 33^; head 3. Snout 2%; eye Qj^, 23^ in snout; maxillary 

 not quite reaches front of eye, 3 in head. 



Scales 27 in lateral line, of which last 1 on caudal base; 2 scales 

 above lateral line, 9 below, 4 predorsal. 



D. VIII, 13, I, eighth spine 434 in head; fifth dorsal ray 234; 

 A. Ill, 11, I, third spine 4^, second ray 33^; caudal 1%, truncate; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2; pectoral 13^; ventral 23^. 



Olive above, pale to whitish below. Side with 2 reddish longi- 

 tudinal bands, upper level with body axis and lower from lower 

 pectoral ray bases. Head above with deep brown spots and often 

 irregular deep brown bars or short lines. Back and sides with small 

 deep brown spots vertically, sometimes forming 5 or 6 cross-bands. 

 Black spot at front of spinous dorsal. Dorsals and anals each with 

 subbasal longitudinal band of reddish. Length, 180 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Red Sea, Natal, Mauritius, East Indies, Philippines, China, 

 Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Hawaii. Readily known by its 

 dark, spotted coloration. 



19225 U.S.N.M.^ Fanning Islands. Dr. T. H. Streets. Length, 143 mm. 1 ex- 

 ample. 



52265 U.S.N.M. Apia. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 18 to 44 mm. 3 ex- 

 amples. 



65040 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Albatross collection. Length, 103 to 145 

 mm. 2 examples. 



65208 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Albatross collection. Length, 40 to 

 72 mm. 5 young examples. 



65675 U.S.N.M, Cook's Bay, Easter Island. Albatross collection. Length, 

 30 to 65 mm. 37 examples. 



71637 U.S.N.M. Nafa, Okinawa. Albatross collection. Length, 130 mm. 1 

 example. 



2686 A.N.S.P. Honolulu. Stanford University, Length, 212 mm. 



THALASSOMA LUTESCENS (Lay and Bennett) 



Julis lutescens (Solander) Lay and Bennett, Zoology Beechey's Voy., 

 1839, p. 65, pi. 19, fig. 2. Tahiti and Riu Kiu. — Brevoort, Exped. Perry 

 Jap. Fish., 1856, p. 271, pi. 8, figs. 3-4 (Nafa, Okinawa). 



Thalassoma lutescens Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, 

 1902, p. 647 (Nafa); Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 214 (Hono- 

 lulu).— Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 508 (Okinawa), 



Labrus lunaris (not Linnaeus) Bloch, Naturg. Ausl. Fisch., 1785, p. 129, pi. 

 282. East Indies. 



