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D. IX, 12, I, first spine 1% in head, ninth 23^ to 3, first ray 2 to 

 2%; A. Ill, 12, I, third spine 33^^ to 3^, first ray 23^ to 2%; caudal 

 1 % to 13^, hind edge with each ray pointed and free, forming fringe 

 behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 to 23/^; pectoral 1% to 1^; 

 ventral 134 to 1^. 



Largely uniform dusky brown, fins blackish. Other examples 

 dull brown generally and broad transverse pale band at end of 

 depressed pectoral, 4 or 5 scales in width. Head and front of trunk 

 before transverse pale band with scattered gray spots, now pale 

 and obsolete and some as short curved lines or bars. Opercular 

 flap with dusky blotch, from size of pupil to little larger than eye. 

 Vertical fins all deep brown, margins of dorsals and anals pale. 

 Greater portion of spinous dorsal, at least basaily, with dull brown 

 spots. Paired fins dull brown. Ventrals little darker along front edge. 

 Red Sea, Mauritius, India, East Indies, Japan, Queensland, to the 

 Society Islands. We adopt the name Coris angulata Lacepede as 

 it has page priority. The Labrus cingulum seems to be the young 

 or immature stage. Not previously reported from the Philippines 

 or Riu Kiu. 



A. 517 and A. 518. Bucuta Island. September 13, 1909. Length, 293 to 352 

 mm. Olive green, throat slightly slaty; posterior half of back with dark 

 brown overshade, confined belowback to margins of scales; vinaceous or reddish 

 stripes and spots on side of head, forehead, and nape and anterior back somewhat 

 similar to such spots in Cheilinus; black blotch on opercular flap. Dorsal dark 

 bottle green, much spotted and mottled with some red as on head; margin of fin 

 yellowish, distinctly so on soft part, resting on gray and indigo lines; these begin- 

 ning on posterior spinous part; under indigo line reddish continuous as infra- 

 marginal bar. Caudal rays greenish, spotted with red, membranes bottle green, 

 also with red spots; tips of rays bluish. Anal similar to dorsal, basal ^ much 

 spotted with reddish brown. Ventrals bluish, with second membrane reddish 

 and few spots on posterior part of fin. Pectoral hyaline olive with dots of pale 

 red on base in axil and behind axil. Body colors distinctly separated on line 

 vertical to front of anal. 

 A1611. Nafa, Riu Kiu Islands. February 7, 1910. Length, 450 mm. 



CORIS VARIEGATA (Ruppell) 



Halichoeres variegatus Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 14, pi. 4, 



fig. 1. Djedda. 

 Julis variegatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 462 (Red 



Sea). 

 Hemicoris variegatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nderl., vol. 1, 1S62, p. 106, 



pi. 36, fig. 4 (Amboina). 

 Coris variegata Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 198 (Red 



Sea). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 540 



(Koseir). — Weber, Zool. Forsch. Austral. Ritter Semon, vol. 5, 1895, 



p. 272 (Amboina and New Guinea). — Weber, Abhandl. Senckenberg. 



Nat. Ges., vol. 34, pi. 1, 1911, p. 8 (Kei Island); Siboga Exp., vol. 57, 



Fische, 1913, p. 382 (Kei example). 

 Coris (Hemicoris) variegata Kossmann and Rauber, Zool. Ergebn. K. Acad. 



Wiss. Berlin, vol. 1, 1879, p. 25 (Red Sea). 

 Julis (Halichoeres) schroderi Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N6erl. (Amboin.), 



vol. 3, 1857-58, p. 3. Amboina. 



