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down and ending opposite vent. Lowest narrow white band across 

 mandible, then curves down behind level of eye to gill opening; 

 extends up along gill opening to whitish axillary region, then slopes 

 down behind pectoral axil until inferior along side of tail, finally 

 gradually ascending to caudal base and out over caudal medially or 

 nearly so. Fins pale brownish, ventral and anal paler. 



Red Sea, Zanzibar, Madagascar, East Indies, Polynesia, Hawaii. 



15328 to 15332. Cebu market. March 19, 1909. Length, 93 to 99 mm. 



21759. Cebu market. March 20, 1909. Length, 97 mm. [1400.] Top of head 

 and back green, becoming much paler below; lower portions more or less laven- 

 der; vinaceous stripe at its margin slightly in front of nostrils on midline, 

 passes across preorbital and upper portion of eye just above pupil, thence 

 curves backward on to nape of neck and along base of dorsal to its axil where 

 joining its fellow; another stripe of same color behind middle of eye backward 

 to above first third of pectoral; third stripe from corner of mouth under eye, 

 through point of opercle, thence curving around above base of pectoral and 

 downward under tip of pectoral or last third; fourth stripe across chin from 

 median line, curves through lower part of cheek and downward across inter- 

 opercle, jumping margin of opercle begins again on edge of gill opening and runs 

 upward to base of pectoral; breaking through pectoral begins again behind base 

 and curves downward, following almost contour of anal region, ending at base 

 of caudal; area between this stripe and third around above base of pectoral 

 scarlet. In alcohol central portion of scales below fourth line and middle part 

 of body above shows darkish, giving rise to obscure stripes. Dorsal fin orange, 

 without bars. Caudal about body color, somewhat greenish at central base 

 opposite long mid stripe of body. Anal pale. Ventrals same. Pectorals 

 pale yellowish. 



6 examples, Cebu market. March 23, 1909. Length, 93 to 100 mm. 



11502. Sulade Island. September 17, 1909. Length, 107 mm. 



16270. Teomabal Island. September 18, 1909. Length, 105 mm. 



15139 U.S.N.M. Samoa. Steinberger. Length, 140 mm. 1 example. 



51049 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 113 mm. 

 1 example. 



65044 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. Albatross collection. Length, 133 mm. 1 ex- 

 ample. 



9419 and 9420 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. Dr. J. K. Townsend. Length, 112 

 to 123 mm. 



STETHOJULIS RENARDI (Bleeker) 



JuUs (Halichoeres) renardi Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 2, 1851, 

 p. 253. Neira, Banda. 



Stethojulis renardi Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N<5erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 132, 

 pi. 43, fig. 2 (Bawean, Sangi, Celebes, Tcrnate, Burn, Amboina, Banda). — 

 GtJXTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 141 (East Indies); Fishes 

 of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 93 (Zanzibar); Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 7 (15), 

 1881, p. 256 (Zanzibar, East Indies, Ponape, Samoa). — Steindachner, 

 Abhandl. Senckenberg. Ges., vol. 25, 1900, p. 442 (Ternate).— Ogilby» 

 Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 21, 1908, p. 23 (Cairns and Dunks Island). 



Stethojulis psacas Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, 1902, 

 p. 629, fig. 5. Nafa, Riu Kiu. 



Depth Syi to 3%; head 2% to 2J^, width 2}i to 2%. Snout 

 3 to 3i^; eye 4^4 to 5^, 1^ to 2 in snout, 13^ to IJ^ in interorbital; 



