FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 241 



15327. Cebu market. March 19, 1909. Length, 72 mm. 



1 example, Cebu market. March 28, 1909. Length, 88 mm. 



6097. Cebu market. August 12, 1909. Length, 118 mm. 



17258 to 17260. Pandanon Island. March 24, 1909. 7 examples. Length, 



77 to 97 mm. 

 16271 Teomabal Island. September 18, 1909. Length, 101 mm. 

 56410 U.S.N.M. China. P. L. Jouy. Length, 130 mm. 1 example. 



Rhytejulis, new subgenus 



Type. — Ldbrus trilineatus Schneider. 



Thoracic scales well enlarged, in contrast with others of body. 

 Sides above with rose violet, longitudinal narrow bands, often fading 

 white or yellow in spirits. 



{*?vTrip, rein; Julis, with reference to rose violet narrow longitudinal 

 bands.) 



STETHOJULIS ALBOVITTATA (Bonnaterre) 



Labrus albovittatus Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 108, pi. 98, fig. 399. 

 No locality. (On Koelreuter.) 



Stethojulis albovittata Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 132, 

 pi. 44, fig. 6 (Java, Sumatra, Nias, Batu, Bali, Celebes, Sangi, Ternate, 

 Buru, Banda, Coram, Letti). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 

 1862, p. 141 (Madagascar, Amboina, Hawaiian Islands). — Bleeker, Ned. 

 Tijds. Dierk., vol. 1, 1863, p. 344 (Madagascar). — Gunther, Fishes of 

 Zanzibar, 1866, p. 93 (Zanzibar). — Kltjnzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. 

 Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 542 (Kosier, Red Sea). — GtJNTHER, Journ. Mus., 

 Godeffroy, vol. 7 (15), 1881, p. 256, pi. 141, fig. B (Hawaiian Islands).— 

 Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 552 (Cebu coast). — Jordan and 

 Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1906), p. 284, 

 pi. 26 (Honolulu). 



Julis balteatus Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie Zool., 1824, p. 267, pi. 56, 

 fig. 1. Maui, Hawaiian Islands. — Guichenot, Notes I. Reunion, vol. 2, 

 1862, p. 28. 



Depth 2}i to 3M; liead 2J/^ to 3, width 2^ to 23/3. Snout 2}i 

 to 3; eye 5 to 6, 1% to 2 3^8 in snout, 13^ to 13^ in interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches K to ^ to eye, 4 to 43^ in head; interorbital 4^^ 

 to 43<^, convex. Gill rakers 10 + 20, short points. 



Scales in lateral line 20 to 22, 5 or 6 + 2; 3 scales above lateral line, 

 8 or 9 below, 7 to 10 predorsal. Scales with 13 to 15 basal radiating 

 striae, apical 12 to 13; circuli very fine. 



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

 A. II, 11, I, second spine 43^ to 53^, first ray 3}/^ to 3%; caudal 1% 

 to 1^, rounded behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 23/^ to 33^5; 

 pectoral 1% to 1%; ventral 23^ to 23^. 



Back slaty to plumbeous, below pearl gray to whitish. Narrow 

 white band from midway m snout to eye, then from behind eye up 

 and along each side of dorsal bases. Another short, white, narrow 

 band from hind eye edge back over suprascapula till opposite front 

 of pectoral. Third white band from near hind end of maxillarj^, along 

 lower eye edge and across opercle and humeral region, then sloping 



