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caudal 2^^ to 3 in combined head and trunk, emarginate, ends 

 exserted; IJ^ in head in young. 



Buff to whitish generally. Back usually with neutral dusky to 

 neutral brown blotch on head above and predorsal, another across 

 middle of spinous dorsal and as transverse band from soft dorsal to 

 anal. Sometimes variable as 5 blackish blotches on head and back, 

 when posterior and median as 2 pairs, last of which extending into 

 front region of caudal peduncle. Humeral region white. Entire 

 dorsal edges narrowly blackish. Neutral gray line across pectoral 

 base, as small dark spot at fin origin. Caudal pale like belly, grayish 

 basally and along upper and lower edges. Paired fins whitish or 

 like belly, pectoral sometimes quite dark terminally. 



East Indies, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia. 



13866. Cebu market. August 31, 1909. Length, 132 mm. [1872.] 

 5679. Cabugan Island, Hinunangan Bay, Leyte. July 30, 1909. Length, 156 

 mm. [1780.] Head below eye, breast and belly translucent white; top of head 

 grey, back with five broad saddles of blackish on olive divided by yellowish green; 

 these bars four or five times breadth of interspaces, first on nape, second under 

 posterior spinous portion, following two under soft dorsal and last on peduncle. 

 Colors of bodj' extend into dorsal fin; first two membranes black, three follow- 

 ing blue, then black, thence blue to base of third soft membrane, whence 

 black continues to posterior end of fin, broken extensions of last two inter- 

 spaces; saddles extend downward about level of middle pectoral base, bordered 

 by yellowish beneath; end of caudal peduncle pale greenish yellow; fin dusky 

 hyaline with purplish shades on lobes. Pectorals greenish yellow at base and 

 front from tip of first rays backward including % of last four or five rays 

 black. Ventrals hyaline. Pectorals dusky hyaline, purplish at fleshy base. 

 Iris silvery. 

 6425. Sulade Island. September 17, 1909. Length, 186 mm. 

 13153. Tumindao Island. February 26, 1908. Length, 117 mm. [343.] 

 71671 U.S.N.M. Nafa, Okinawa. Albatross collection. Length, 115 to 167 

 mm. 4 examples. 



THALASSOMA UMBROSTIGMA (Ruppell) 



Julis umbrostigma Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 11, pi. 3, fig. 2. 

 Mohila and Djedda, Red Sea. — Sleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., 

 vol. 1, 1862, p. 92, pi. 34, fig. 2 (Java and Cocos Island). — Gunther, 

 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 185 (Red Sea, China, Aneiteum). — 

 Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, vol. 2, 1865, p. 257 (no locality). — Klunz- 

 INGER, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 21, 1871, p. 538 (Koseir, Red Sea). — 

 Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Beriin, 1876, p. 443 (Mauritius). — Elera, 

 Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 555 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). — 

 Regan, Ann. Natal Mus., vol. 1, 1908, p. 246 (Kosi Bay). — Gilchrist 

 and Thompson, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., vol. 6, 1908-11, p. 198 (Natal).— 

 Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 294, pi. 149, fig. 3 

 (Pelew Islands, Ponape, Mortlock, Ruk, Aneiteum, Marquesas, Kings- 

 mills, Society Islands, Samoa, Raratonga, Rotuma, Hawaii). — Weber^ 

 Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 378 (SaUbabu). 



Thalassoma umbrostigma Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm.^ 

 vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 300, fig. 129 (Honolulu, Kailua, Hilo).— 

 Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 267 

 (Calayan). 



