308 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



over front of interorbital; 1 from upper hind eye edge also across 

 occiput broadly and band extending to suprascapula and along front 

 of lateral line till nearly opposite soft dorsal origin; brown band from 

 rictus to lower eye edge, then down over pectoral toward pectoral 

 base; another curves from across mandible medianly back across 

 upper side of chest; lowest brown band along under side of head and 

 chest. Back from pectoral axil lighter brown band horizontally, 

 giving place behind to irregular transverse dark gray crossbars and 

 on tail 6 or more deeper gray median blotches. Opercular flap with 

 light brown blotch little larger than eye, its hind edge narrow neutral 

 dusky crescent. Iris yellowish. Dorsals grayish, with base deep 

 gray; spinous fin with median horizontal buff band; soft dorsal 

 medially and terminally with pale gray spots, smaller terminally. 

 Anals gray, with row of light grsLj basal spots and outer half of fin 

 with 4 darker longitudinal lines, sometimes broken or variable. 

 Caudal gray, with pale brown to gray spots, smaller terminally. 

 Paired fins pale brown. 



Kjiown only from Oceania in the Hawaiian subregion. Apparently 

 close to Halichoeres multicolor, but differs in the coloration and fewer 

 scales below the lateral line. 



9417 and 9418. Midway Islands, reefs. November 7, 1907. Length, 147 to 



150 mm. 

 51141 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. U. S. Fish Comm. Length, 160 mm. 1 



example. 

 55043 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. Albatross collection. Length, 127 to 145 mm. 2, 



examples. 

 55563 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 143 mm. 



1 example. 

 78079 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. U. S. Fish Comm. Length, 157 mm. 

 84088 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. U. S. Fish Comm. Length, 125 to 143 



mm. 2 examples. 

 9331 and 9332 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. Dr. J. K. Townsend. 

 17205 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. Dr. J. K. Townsend. 

 28249 A.N.S.P. Honolulu. Jordan and Snyder. 

 28116 to 28118 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. U. S. Fish Comm. Length, 155 



to 160 mm. 



CORIS MULTICOLOR (Ruppell) 



Halichoeres multicolor Rxjppell, Neue Wirbelth. Fische, 1835, p. 15, pi. 4, 

 fig. 3. Djedda. 



Coris multicolor Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 198 (New 

 Hebrides). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 

 541 (Red Sea). — Gtjnther, Cruise of Curacoa, Brenchley, 1873, p. 410 

 (Solomons); Journ. Mus. Godeflfroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 274 (New 

 Hebrides and Solomon Islands). — Regan, Ann. Durban Mus., vol 1, 

 1914r-17, p. 459 (Durban). 



Depth 3% to 34^; head 3 to 3^, width 2% to 3. Snout 2ji to 

 3; eye 53^ to 63^, 1^ to 2}4 in snout, 1 to 1)4 in interorbital; maxil- 

 lary reaches 3^ to ^ to eye, length 3% to 3^ in head; single small 



