FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 299 



HALICHOERES LEUCOSTIGMA. new species 



Depth 3; head 3H, width, 2'J4. Snout 3; eye 5^; maxillary 

 reaches half way to eye, 43^ in head; interorbital 5, convex. Gill 

 rakers 8 + 10, short, flexible. 



Scales in lateral line 22, 5 + 1; 3 scales above lateral line, 9 below, 

 11 predorsal. Scales with 25 basal radiating striae, apical 32 or 33; 

 circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 12, I, spines pungent, ninth spine 3 in head, first ray 2^; 

 A. Ill, 12, I, third. spine 3^, first ray 2}/^; caudal convex behind, 

 1%; least depth of caudal peduncle 2; pectoral 1%; ventral 1^. 



Body and head brown generally, little paler below or on abdomen. 

 Along median axis of tail 4 rounded whitish spots, first opposite 

 vent below lateral fine, also second and third below lateral line and 

 fourth mostly above lateral line but behind bend. Traces of some 

 purplish brown blotches on upper part of head, especially one as 

 band each side of snout. Fins all dull brown, anal and ventral 

 more or less whitish. Dorsals show traces of 3 or 4 longitudinal rows 

 of pale rounded spots. Pectoral with small neutral dusky triangular 

 blotch at origin. Iris pale or yellowish brown. 



Only the type known, a single example 13805. Pujada Bay, 

 Mindanao. May 15, 1908. Obtained by dynamite. Length, 130 

 mm. It is unique among all the species of the genus we have exam- 

 ined in the 4 white spots along the median axis of the tail. 



Type.— Cht. No. 89974, U.S.N.M. 



(AeuKos, white; crriTjua, spot; with reference to the white spots along 

 the side of the tail.) 



Genus MACROPHARYNGODON Bleeker 



Macropharyngodon Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (December 10), 1861 

 p. 412. Type Julis geoffroy Quoy and Gaimard, orthotypic. 



Body compressed, short, deep. Head compressed, rather deep. 

 Anterior canines f, second of each side above turned back; 1 hind 

 canine above near mouth angle, sometimes duplicated. Scales 28 in 

 lateral line. Head naked, also nape; scales on breast very small. 

 Lateral line continuous. Dorsal spines 9, rays 11. Anal spines 3, 

 rays 11. Caudal truncate or rounded. 



East Indies and Oceania. Small and very brilliant coral reef 

 fishes. Differs from Halichoeres in the deeper body and but few 

 large pharyngeal teeth. 



MACROPHARYNGODON GEOFFROY (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Julis geoffroy Quoy and Gaimard, Voy, Uranie, Zool., 1824, p. 270, pi. 56, 

 fig. 3. Hawaiian Islands. 



Julis geoffroyi Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 479 (type). 



Macropharyngodon geoffroyi Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, 

 p. 129, pi. 37, fig. .5 (Celebes). — Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 

 1862, p. 145 (Hawaii, Ulea, or Celebes?); Journ, Mus. Godeflfroy, vol. 8 

 (16), 1909, p. 261, pi. 143, fig. 3 (Hawaiian Islands). 



