294 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



5096 and 5097. Cebu market. April 5, 1908. Length, 71 to 73 mm. 

 6086 and 6088. Cebu market. August 12, 1909. Length, 105 to 109 mm. 

 4 examples, Cebu market. September 3, 1909. Length, 92 to 110 mm. 

 21107. Danawan Island and Si Amil Island. September 27, 1909. Length, 



91 mm. 

 1 example. El Lagan Psug, near mouth of Baheli River. December 28, 1908. 



Length, 68 mm. 

 20439. Grande Island reef. June 8, 1908. Length, 65 mm. 

 3 examples, Nogas Point, Panay. February 4, 1908. Length, 52 to 70 mm. 

 1 example. Port Matalvi, Luzon Island. November 13, 1908. Length, 64 mm. 

 1 example. Port Palapag. June 3, 1909. Length, 40 mm. 



12 examples, Sablayan, Mindoro. December 13, 1908. Length, 37 to 80 mm. 

 52022 U.S.N.M. Negros. Dr. B. Dean. Length, 76 mm. 1 example. 

 56245 U.S.N.M. Bacon. Philippine Commission. Length, 65 mm. 1 example. 

 27720 and 27721 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. Messrs. Harrison and Hiller. 



Length, 58 to 70. 

 48744 to 48751 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 



Length, 50 to 62 mm. As Halichoeres leparensis. 



HALICHOERES CHLOROPTERUS (Bloch) 



Labrus chloropterus Blocii, Naturg. Ausl. Fische, vol. 5, 1791, p. 151, pi. 

 288. Japan. — Forster, Fauna Indica, 1795, p. 15. 



Halichoeres chloropterus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 

 125, pi. 35, fig. 3 (Java, Bawean, Duizend Islands, Singapore, Banka, 

 Celebes, Amboina). — Bleeker, Ned. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1874, p. 117 

 (China). 



Platyglossus chloropterus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, pp. 

 144, 507 (East Indies). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, 

 p. 443 (Mauritius). — Karoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, 

 p. 174 (Singapore). — Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, 

 p. 37 (North Celebes). — Beaufort, Bijd. Dierk. Amsterdam, vol. 16, 

 1913, p. 131 (Saonek).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 370 

 (Macassar). 



Julis semi-decor ata Lesson, Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 4, 1828, p. 403. 

 Mauritius; Voy. Coquille, Zool., vol. 2 (1), 1830, p. 138, pi. 35, lig. 2 

 (type). 



Julis (Halichoeres) cuvieri (not Bennett) Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. 

 (Labr.), vol. 22, 1849, p. 24. 



Halichoeres bleekeri Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. London, ser. 3, vol. 8, 

 1861, p. 386 (on Julis (Halichoeres) cuvieri Bleeker). 



Depth 23^ to 3K; head 3 to 33^, width 2 to 2}i. Snout 23^ to 

 2^; eye 5J^ to 63^, 23^ in snout, 1% to 1^ in interorbital; maxillary 

 dj4 to 4}/Q, in head, reaches 3^ to % to eye; interorbital 3^ to 43^ 

 in head, convex. Gill rakers 7 + 11, short, lanceolate. 



Scales in lateral line 21 or 22, 5 or 6 + 2; 5 or 6 scales above lateral 

 line, 10 below, 10 to 15 predorsal. Scales with 23 to 45 basal striae, 

 apical 30 to 39 ; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 11, I, ninth spine 3 to 33^ in head, first ray 23^ to 23^3; A. 

 II or III, 11,1, third spine 3J^ to 4, first ray 2% to 2^; caudal 1% to 

 13^, truncate; least depth of caudal peduncle lj4 to 2; pectoral 1% 

 to 13^; ventral 13^ to IJ^. 



