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blue, front and edge and narrow inframarginal bar of orange covering all of 

 last rays, under this narrow bar of green, basal half of fin purplish; anal blue 

 at margin, about Yh oi fin, narrowly blue at base, basal ^ purplish, last ray 

 blue; caudal distally orange, edges blue, irregular crescent with green at base; 

 iris blue; ventrals blue in front and behind; pectorals hyaline straw color, 

 blue at base. 



CALLYODON JANTHOCHIR (Bleeker) 



Scarus janthochir Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 4, 1853, p. 139. 



Ternate, Batavia. 

 Pseudoscarus janthochir Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, 



p. 30, pi. 5 (Java, Celebes, Ternate). — Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, 1887, p. 664 (Muscat). 

 Pseudoscarus jantochir Regan, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, pt. 2, 



1906, p. 330 (Persian Gulf). 

 Pseudoscarus altipinnis Steindachner, Denks. Akad. Wiss. Wien., vol. 41 



(1), 1879, p. 18. Java, Celebes, Ternate, Kingsmills, Moluccas, New 



Ireland, Hawaiian Islands. — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 



(16), 1909, p. 326, pi. 160 (Yap, Ponape, Ruk, Hervey Islands, Pomo- 



tous). 

 Pseudoscarus godeffroyi Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, 



p. 326, pi. 159. Society Islands. 



Depth 2}4 to 2%; head 2% to 3, width 2^ to 23/g. Snout 2i^ 

 to 2}4] eye 73/8 to lO^i, 3K to 75^5 in snout, 2% to 3ji in interor- 

 bital; mouth cleft 3J^ to 4^ in head; lips 3^ to 3^ cover teeth; 

 canines 1 or 2 each side above and below, sometimes absent; inter- 

 orbital 23^ to 3, convex. Gill rakers 15 to 20 + 28 to 32, short, 

 weak, slender, flexible. 



Scales in lateral line 17 to 20, 4 or 5 + 2 or 3; 1 or 2 scales above 

 lateral line, 6 below, 5 to 7 predorsal; cheek with 3 rows of scales, of 

 which lowest row of 2 or 3 scales on preopercle flange. Scales with 

 39 to 48 basal radiating striae, apical 36 to 64; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, ninth spine 2 3^ to 33/g in head, first T&y 2% to 2>%; 

 A. Ill, 9, I, third spine 33^^ to 5%, first ray 2^ to 4^4; caudal 1^^ to 

 l}/i, truncate behind, tips well exerted; least depth of caudal pe- 

 duncle 2 to 2%; pectoral 1^ to ly^; ventral 1^ to 23/^. 



Burnt umber generally, scales above anal and on caudal peduncle 

 each with median pale spot. Brownish line forward from eye close 

 above nostrils and crossing snout. Buff band, narrow, from lower 

 and lower front eye edge to upper lip, behind eye arching down 

 toward pectoral origin, inclosing cheeks in large greenish yellow area. 

 Iris brownish. Teeth green. Dorsals pale greenish, base of rayed 

 fin deep neutral slate. Anal pale greenish, medianly with broad 

 grayish band. Caudal pale greenish, median upper and lower rays 

 grayish. Pectoral nearly seal brown, hind edge broadly pale. Ven- 

 tral brown, front edge little darker. 



Arabian Sea, East Indies and Polynesia to Paumotus. Both 

 Pseudoscarus altipinnis and P. godefroyi agree with certain of our 

 examples in every way, and we are obliged to admit them as syno- 



