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maxillary 4^^ to 5 in head, reaches % to ^ to eye; interorbital 

 43^5 to 43^ in head, broad, slightly convex. Gill rakers 9 + 14, short 

 tubercles. 



Scales in lateral line 20 or 21, 5 + 2; 3 scales above lateral line, 

 8 or 9 below, 8 to 10 predorsal. Scales with 15 to 17 basal radiating 

 striae, apical 10 or 11; circuli fine. 



D. IX, 11,1, ninth spine 33^ to 43^ in head, first ray 2% to 3]^; 

 A. Ill, 11, I or 12, I, third spine 5 to 5^, first ray 33^ to 4; caudal 

 1% to 13^, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2J^ to 

 Z}4; pectoral 1% to 1^; ventral 23^ to 23^. 



Back plumbeous to neutral gray, below pearl gray to whitish. 

 Narrow white band from each side of occiput along dorsal bases. 

 Another from nostrils to eye, then back along opercle flap above, 

 partially enclosing neutral black spot less than pupil, and back inside 

 of body to middle of caudal base, at which point small black spot or 

 dot close above. Third narrow whitish band from side of mouth 

 along lower eye edge, then up to pectoral origin and back far as hind 

 end of pectoral base. Al'&o fourth narrow gray band close below and 

 posteriorly till opposite anal origin. All bands with narrow dark 

 bordering lines. Iris yellowish. Fins pale, lower ones whitish. 



Zanzibar to the East Indies, Riu Kiu, Queensland, Polynesia, 

 Micronesia. 



20763. Cebu market. March 20, 1909. Length, 109 mm. 



6098. Cebu market. August 12, 1909. Length, 122 mm. 



4 examples, Cebu market. September 30, 1909. Length, 102 to 109 mm. 



17257. Pandanon Island. March 24, 1909. 2 examples. Length, 99 to 105 

 mm. [1441]. Central body stripe a continuation of stripe through top of eye, 

 running downward to center of caudal base; small black spot above at base of 

 caudal; lower stripe of head curves above base of pectoral and ends at margin 

 of axillary region; stripe under pectoral continues to centre of body; between 

 these, in front of base of pectoral, interspace red, continuing across opercle to 

 preopercle margin. Dorsal hyaline of olive. Caudal similar to body, but paler. 

 Lower fins and pectorals hyaline, latter orange at base in axil, more reddish 

 without. 



1 example, Pandanon Island. May 24, 1909. Length, 104 mm. 



19489. Port Matalvi, Luzon. November 23, 1908. Length, 101 mm. 



20867. Tumindao Island. February 25, 1908. Length, 100 mm. 



10867 and 10869. Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 23, 1908. 4 examples. Length, 

 73 to 97 mm. 



22379. Amboina market, Amboina, Dutch East Indies. December 7, 1909. 

 Length, 119 m. 



STETHOJULIS TRILINEATA (Schneider) 



Labrus trilineatus Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch., 1801, p. 253. Coringo, 

 Coromandel. (On Seba and Koelreuter.) 



Stethojulis trilineata Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol., 1, 1862, p. 131, 

 pi. 43, fig. 3 (Java, Bawean, Bali, Sumatra, Nias, Celebes, Sangi, Batjan, 

 Amboina, Haruko, Coram, Letti). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 

 1862, p. 140 (Amboyna); Cruise of Curacoa Brenchley, 1873, p. 411 

 (Misol, Moluccas). — Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 397 



