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Scales rather large, 30 in lateral line. Cheek with stripe of very small 

 scales. Opercles naked. Lateral line complete. Dorsal spines 7, 

 rays 11. Anal spines 3, rays 11. 

 East Indies. 



ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES 



o*. Body with 4 or 5 narrow white transverse bands fasciatus. 



«'. Body with 1 pale band transversely in front of spinous dorsal in young, 

 obsolete and body more or less uniform greenish with age luelapterus. 



HEMIGYMNUS FASCIATUS (Bloch) 



Labrus fasciatus Bloch, Naturg. Ausl. Fische, vol. 6, 1792, p. 6, pi. 290. 



Japan. — Forster, Faun. Indica, 1795, p. 15. 

 Mullus fasciatus (not Shaw 1790) (Lamarck) Thitnberg, Voy. Japan, vol. 4, 



1796, p. 351, pi. 314 (" Meaco," doubtless Miyakoshima, Riu Kiu). 

 Tautoga fasciata Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 303, 



pi. 379 (Mauritius). — Guichenot, Notes I. Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 28. 

 Hemigymnus fasciatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 141, 



pi. 44, fig. 2 (Java, Nias, Biliton, Amboina). — Gijnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 138 (Amboina); Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 92 



(Zanzibar). — Kltjnzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 



547 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 396; Fauna 



British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 402. — Picaglia, Atti Soc. Nat. Modena, 



ser. 2, vol. 12, 1893, p. 33 (Assab). 

 Labrus fuliginosus LACEPijDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 437, 493, 



pi. 22, fig. 3. Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion. 

 Hemigymnus fuliginosus Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 506 



(Okinawa). 

 Sparus zoiiephorus Lac^pJide, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 51, 155 



(on Block, pi. 290). 

 Sparus meaco LACEpfcoE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 54, 160 (on 



Thunberg). 

 Labrus malapteronotus Lac^pSide, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 450, 



518, pi. 31, fig. 1. Great Equatorial Ocean. 

 Scarus quinquefasciatus Bennett, Fishes of Ceylon, 1830, pi. 23. Ceylon. 

 Halichoeres sexfasciatus R^ppell, Neue Wirbel., Fische, 1835, p. 18, pi. 5, 



fig. 3. Djedda. 

 Hemigymnus sexfasciatus Gtjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, 



p. 139 (Red Sea). 

 Tautoga mertensii Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 308. 



Carolines. 

 Cheilinus blochii Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 108 (on 



Bloch, pi. 290). 

 Tautoga leucomos Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 15, 1858, p. 239. 



Western Biliton. 

 Hemigymnus leucomos Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 142, 



pi. 44, fig. 3 (Biliton). 



Depth 2% to 23^; head 2^ to 2%, width 2}4 to 2}^. Snout 

 2 To to 2}4; eye 6 to 7, 2% to 33^ in snout, 13^ to 1% in interor- 

 bital; maxillary reaches 3^ to % to eye, 33^ to 3% in head; lips 

 broad, wide as eye; interorbital 4c}4 to 43^^, moderately convex; 

 opercle with weak radiating striae. Gill rakers 7 + 16, lanceolate, 

 short. 



