300 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSUEM 



Macropharyngodon geoffroy Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Coram., 



vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 288, fig. 124 (Honolulu). 

 Platyglossus geoffroyii Weber, Abbandl. Senckenberg. Nat. Ges., vol. 34 



(1), 1911, p. 8 (Kei Islands). 

 Julis mcleagris Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 481. 



Ulea. — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 376 (Elat). 

 Marcropharyngodon aquilolo Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 19, 1899 



(1900), p. 46, fig. 1. Honolulu. 



Depth 2% to 3; head S}4 to 33^, width 2^ to 2H- Snout 3 to 

 3^; eye 5 to 53^, 1% to 1^ in snout, 1^ to .1% in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches ^ to eye, 3^ to 43^ in head; interorbital 4 to 43/8> 

 convex. Gill rakers 6 + 11, short, lanceolate. 



Scales in lateral line 22, 5 + 1 ; 4 scales above lateral line, 10 below, 

 5 or 6 predorsal: Scales with 32 to 41 basal radiating striae; apical 

 33 to 45; circuli fine. 



D. IX, 11, I, ninth spine 2 3^ to 3^ in head, first ray 2J^ to 2^; 

 A. Ill, 11, I, third spine 33^ to 4, first ray 23^ to 2%; caudal 13^ to 

 1^, truncate; least depth of caudal peduncle 1% to 2; pectoral 13^4 to 

 1^; ventral 1^ to 13^. 



Purplish brown, each scale with pale spot. Blackish scale, with 

 white spot, at humeral region. Head bluish, with brown spots and 

 blotches, margined with neutral. Iris pale yellowish. Vertical fins 

 gray, with brown spots and blotches; on caudal as about 6 transverse 

 rows, upper and lower edges gray. Paired fins, uniform pale brown. 



East Indies, Micronesia, Hawaii. The examples below, the first 

 from the Philippines. 



8840. Mahinog, Camiguin Island. August 3, 1909. Length, 144 mm. 



6419. Sulade Island. September 17, 1909. Length, 134 mm. 



16036. Sulade Island. September 18, 1909. Length, 112 mm. 



51142 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. U. S. Fish Comm. Length, 103 mm. 



52304 U.S.N.M. Apia. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 115 mm. 



9622 and 9623 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. Dr. J. K. Townsend. Length, 



132 mm. 

 17196 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. Dr. J. K. Townsend, Length, 100 mm. 



Genus LEPTOJULIS Bleeker 



LeptojuUs Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (December 10), 1861, p. 412. 

 Type Julis (Halichoeres) cyanopleura Bleeker, monotypic. 



Body compressed, slender. Anterior canines 4 m each jaw, outer 

 enlarged, bent outwards and backwards; posterior canine present. 

 Scales on thorax smaller than those on body. Head naked. Body 

 scales moderate, less than 30 in lateral line. Lateral line continuous. 

 Dorsal spines 9, rays 11. Anal spines 3, rays 11. 



East Indies and Oceania. 



