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4408. Polloc, Mindanao. May 22, 1908. Length, 228 mm. 



10471. Port Maricaban. July 21, 1908. Length, 130 mm. 



2 examples, Simaluc Island. September 12, 1909. Length, 110 to 141 mm. 



6783, 9457 to 9464, 9475. Simaluc Island. Length, 104 to 236 mm. September 



22, 1909. 

 17099. Simaluc Island. September 23, 1909. Length, 223 mm. 

 12374 to 12378, 12380. Tataan Island, Tawi Ta^a Group. February 21, 1908. 



Length, 102 to 208 mm. 

 7157 and 7158. Teomabal Island. September 18, 1909. Length, 197 to 212 mm, 

 14338. Tobea Island. December 14, 1909. Length, 138 mm. 

 18254 and 18255. Tomahu Island. December 11, 1909. Length, 126 to 170 mm. 

 13154 and 13161. Tumindao Island. February 26, 1908. Length, 76 to 155 mm. 

 .19097. Varadero Bay. July 23, 1908. Length, 158 mm. 

 21721. Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 24, 1908. Length, 126 mm. 

 7344. West coast of Palaui Island. November 18, 1908. Length, 175 mm. 

 7215 and 13459. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 9, 1909. Length, 103 to 



150 mm. 

 12767 to 12769. Limbe Strait. November 10, 1909. Length, 145 to 190 mm. 

 49303 U.S.N.M. Red Sea. Bellotti. Length, 130 mm. 1 example. 

 19228 U.S.N.M. Fanning Islands. Dr. T. H. Streets. Length, 215 to 244 



mm. 3 examples. 

 62148 U.S.N.M. Suez, Egypt. Col. Univ. Length, 240 mm. 1 example. 

 66179 U.S.N.M. Luzon. Philippine Commission. Length, 95 mm. 1 example. 

 66429 U.S.N.M. Shanghai. P. L. Jouy. Length, 218 mm. 1 example. 

 66058 U.S.N.M. Jaluit, Marshall Islands. Albatross collection. Length, 157 



mm. 

 27722 and 27723 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. Messrs. Harrison and Hiller. 



Length, 100 to 150 mm. 



THALASSOMA JANSENII (Bleeker) 



Julis jansenii Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerl. (Manado), vol. 1, 1856, 

 p. 56. Manado, Celebes; Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 91, 

 pi. 34. fig. 5 (Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Sangi, Amboina, Letti). — GtJNTHER, 

 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 187 (Fiji and Aneiteum); Cruise of * 

 Curacoa Brenchley, 1873, p. 410 (Solomons). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 

 3, 1877, p. 405, pi. 86, fig. 4; Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 414.— 

 GtJNTHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 295 (East Indies, 

 Ponape, New Hebrides, Fiji, Solomons, Lifu in Loyalty Islands). 



Julis janseni Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 378 (Tiur). 



Thalassoma janseni McCulloch, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 

 36, 1912, p. 347 (Murray Island).— Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 

 1912, p. 508 (Okinawa). 



Depth d}4 to 33^; head 3 to 3}4, width 2}i to 2^. Snout 2}4 

 to Z}i; eye 5 to 6; maxillary 3^5 to 43^, reaches 3<3 to ^ to eye; 

 interorbital 33^ to 4 in head, convex. Gill rakers 7 + 14, lanceolate. 



Scales in lateral line 21 or 22, 5 + 1; 3 scales above lateral line, 

 9 or 10 below, 5 or 6 predorsal. Scales with 40 to 43 basal striae, 

 apical 27 or 28; circiili fine. 



D. VIII, 13, I, eighth spine 33^ to 4 in head, first ray 23^ to 3; 

 A. II, 11, I, second spine 33<4 to 3^, first ray 2% to 2J^; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2 to 2}4; pectoral 13^ to 13^; ventral linj to 23^; 



