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Scales in lateral line 40, 10 + 1 ; 7 scales above lateral line, 19 below, 

 15 predorsal. Scales with 14 to 20 basal radiating striae, apical 8 to 

 22; circuli fine. 



D. IX, 11, I, ninth spine 22^ to 2 >^ in head, first ray 2}4 to 2>^; 

 A.III, 11,1, third spine 3 Veto 4 i/g, first ray 2% to 2^/^; caudal 1% to 

 1}/^, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle IJ^ to 2yo; 

 pectoral l^i to 1^; ventral 1% to 2. 



General color brown, little paler to whitish below. Head with a 

 heliotrope band from near end of snout to eye. Usually 2 heKotrope 

 blotches behind eye, of which one closest often with a deep neutral 

 blue spot. Heliotrope arch across cheek and back over opercle. 

 About 5 or 6 obscure dark blotches or short saddlelike bands on 

 back, not extending down on sides below eye. Interspaces of each 

 with short whitish narrow vertical bar or streak. All scales on sides 

 and lower surface of abdomen with small whitish spots. Dorsals 

 pale or whitish, with median longitudinal brown band; at front of 

 spinous dorsal dusky and at front of soft dorsal as second enlarged 

 dusky brown blotch; submarginally soft dorsal with gray band. 

 Anals gray, with whitish median and basal longitudinal bands. 

 Caudal whitish or pale, also paired fins, pectorals with dusky brown 

 narrow basal bar. 



Previously only known from the East Indies. 



1 example, Cataingan Bay. April 17, 1908. Length, 73 mm. 

 1 example, Cebu market. September 3, 1909. Length, 108 mm. 

 '1 example, Galera Bay, Mindoro. Length, 106 mm. 



CORIS VENUSTA Vaillant and Sauvagre 



Coris venusta Vaillant and Sauvage, Rev. Mag. Zool., vol. 3, 1875, p. 285* 

 Hawaiian Islands. — Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 

 vol. 23, 1903 (1905) , p. 312, pi. 31, fig. 133 (Honolulu and Hilo) .— Gunther, 

 Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 275, pi. 44, figs. A-B (Hono- 

 lulu). 



Hemicoris remedius Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 19, 1899 (1900), 

 p. 49, fig. 5. Honolulu. 



Depth 3% to 3M; head 3K to 33^, width 2i^ to 2%. Snout 

 3^8 to 3li; eye 5}4 to 5%, 1% to \% in snout, l}i to 134 in inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches % to ^ to eye, length 4 to 4}/^ in head; 

 interorbital 5 to 53^, convex. Gill rakers 6 + 12, short points. 



Scales in lateral line 40 to 41, 8 to 10 + 1 or 2; 4 scales above lateral 

 line, 17 or 18 below, 11 or 12 predorsal. Scales with 24 to 29 basal 

 radiating striae; apical 3 to 9, obsolete; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 12, I, ninth spine 2% to 2% in head, first ray 2% to 23^; 

 A. Ill, 12, I, third spine 3^ to 3^, first ray 2 to 33^; caudal IK 

 to 13^^, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 23^8 to 23^; 

 pectoral 13^; ventral 13^ to 13^. 



Brown or neutral brown, with plumbeous or gray tints anteriorly. 

 Median brown band in front; 1 from side of snout to eye, then up 



