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darker bordering lines. Caudal pale, with several obscure broken 

 transverse bands. Paired fins uniformly pale, small black spot at 

 pectoral origin. 

 East Indies. 



5575 and 5576. Jolo market, Jolo. February 11, 1908. Length, 127 to 138 mm. 



11916. Jolo market. Length, 167 mm. [75.] Greenish olive, most distinct as 

 stripe above axis; through axial region from tip of opercle on to caudal broad 

 stripe of salmon, narrowly bordered bluish purple above and irregularly so at 

 hinder part below, salmon color breaking through in vertical dashes on side, which 

 otherwise brassy yellow, becoming hyaline with lavender shades and blue below; 

 on back outer half of scales geranium red; color running on to base of dorsal 

 and involving its lower half; top of head light green, with dashes of red, this 

 covering most of occiput except narrow purple line in front of fin; red forming 

 inverted U on interorbital, limb continues into short stripe across preocular; 

 area behind eye to above opercle, of red, continuing forward as narrow line 

 under eye and broadening to stripe crossing preocular and mandible; another 

 stripe parallel to this across mandible to lower edge of cheek, continuing on 

 lower edge of subopercle; dash of same color from angle of preopercle, and 

 another across edge of opercle above, occurring again on edge of opercular 

 flap, extreme tip of latter hyaline. Sulphur .yellow spot above base of pectoral 

 under opercle; oblique bar of red before pectoral base, fading out on abdominal 

 region. Ground green color appears at series of spots at base of dorsal, first 

 becoming distinct under last spines and bluish toward posterior end of soft 

 dorsal; fin edge very pale pink with purplish hj'aline bar immediately below; 

 median yellow bar width of pupil across entire fin, purplish hyaline again 

 between former and red of basal half of fin. Caudal greenish, becomes yellowish 

 toward terminal part; upper edge red, continued from top of caudal peduncle 

 and double irregular red bar through middle, color again occurs as lenticular 

 margin at tip. Anal base red, followed by purplish hyaline yellow through 

 center and broadly margined pinkish. Ventral pinkish hyaline, base dusky pur- 

 plish. Pectoral same, black spot at base. 



27719 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. Messrs. Harrison and Hiller. Length, 

 185 mm. 



HALICHOERES ARGUS (Schneider) 



Labrus argus Schneider Syst. Ich. Bloch, 1801, p. 263. Australia. 

 (?Walbatjm, Arted. Pise, ed. 2, vol. 3, 1792, p. 261. No locality.) 



Julis argus Bennett, Zool. Journ., vol. 3, 1828. p. 577 (Sumatra). 



Halichoeres argus Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 1905, 

 p. 787 (Negros); Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 30 (Cavite). 



Labrus guttatus (not Bonnaterre, 1788) Bloch, Naturg. Ausl. Fische, 

 vol. 5, 1791, p. 149, pi. 287, fig. 2. (Locality unknown.) 



Halichoeres guttatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nderl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 124, 

 pL 35, fig. 1 (.Java, Bawean, Sumatra, Nias, Batu, Lepar, Biliton, 

 Celebes, Sangi, Buru, Amboina, Coram). — Evermann and Seale, Bull. 

 Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 94 (Bacon). 



Platyglossus guttatus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 155 

 (Sumatra, Ceram, Chusan). — Karoli, Termesz. Fuzetek, Budapest, 

 vol. 5, 1881, p. 174 (Singapore). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc, New South 

 Wales, vol. 8, 1883, p. 274 (New Guinea). — Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. 

 Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 36 (Cebu and Sangi).— Elera, Cat. Fauna 

 Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 553 (Luzon, Manila, Cebu, C. de Samar).— Gxjntheu, 



