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sepia. Ventrals dusky bottle green. Pectorals dusky orange, membranes 



hyaline, only base black. 

 11847. Caracaran, Batan Island. June S, 1909. Length, 158 mm. 

 11648. Casogoran, Malhon Island. July 27, 1909. Length, 170 mm. 

 5398. Cebu market. April 7, 1908. Length, 175 mm. 

 18804. Cebu market. August 21, 1909. Length, 135 mm. [1878.] 

 19785. Comoro Island. December 9, 1909. Length, 160 mm. 

 16603. Maricaban Island, Luzon. January 20, 1908. Length, 153 mm. 

 9334. Matnog Bay. May 31, 1909. Length, 150 mm. 

 9189, 9234. Opol, Mindanao. August 4, 1909. Length, 190 to 220 mm. 

 5919. Parang, Mindanao. May 23, 1908. Length, 170 mm. 

 1 example, Philippines. Length, 197 mm. 



6388, 9279. Port Jamelo, Luzon. July 13, 1908. Length, 190 to 213 mm. 

 7052. Port San Pio Quinto, Camiguin Island. November 11, 1908. Length, 



190 mm. 

 18970. Quinalasag Island, Masamat Bay. June 12, 1909. Length, 152 mm, 

 21299. Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 24, 1909. Length, 160 mm. 

 52443 U.S.N.M. Apia. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 200 mm. 1 example. 



71640 U.S.N.M. Nafa, Okinawa. Albatross collection. Length, 220 mm. 

 1 example. 



71641 U.S.N.M. Nafa. Albatross collection. Length, 213 mm. 1 example. 



HEMIGYMNUS MELAPTERUS (Bloch) 



Labrus melapterus Bloch, Naturg. Ausl. Fisch., vol. 5, 1791, p. 137, pi. 285. 

 Japan. 



Tautoga melapterus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 311 

 (Java) . 



Hemigymnus melapterus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, 

 p. 142, pi. 45, figs. 2-3 (Java, Duizend Islands, Cocos, Sumatra, Batu, 

 Nias, Singapore, Bintang, Celebes, Amboina, Ceram, Coram). — Peters, 

 Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. BerUn, 1876, p. 443 (Mauritius). — Day, Fishes of 

 India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 396, pi. 84, fig. 2.— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, 

 Fische, 1913, p. 367 (Saleyer, Banda). — McCulloch, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 New South Wales, vol. 40, pt. 2, 1915, p. 265 (types of Cheilolabrus mag- 

 nibabris, Port Moresby, New Cuinea). 



Hemigymnus melanopterus Cunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, 

 p. 139 (Celebes, Java, Port Essington, Endeavor Reef, Austraha). — 

 Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, vol. 2, 1865, p. 252 (Singapore). Gunther, 

 Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 92 (Zanzibar). — Klunzinger, Sitzs. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, vol. 80 (1), 1879, p. 404 (Port Darwin). — Gunther, Journ. 

 Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 7 (15), 1881, p. 253 (East Africa, North Austraha, 

 Pelew Islands, Samoa). — Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 

 1885, p. 36 (Rubi, New Guinea). — Ishikawa and Matsuura, PreUm. Cat. 

 Fish. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 29 (Japan). — Steindachner, Abhandl. 

 Senckenberg. Ges., vol. 25, 1900, p. 441 (Batjan). 



Cheilinus macrocheilus (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Valenciennes, Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 311. Java (name in text). 



Tautoga dimidiata Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Labr.), vol. 22, 

 1849, p. 18. No locality. 



Julis beraber TmoLLiiiRE, Faun. Woodlark, 1857, p. 196. Woodlark Island. 



Labrus scapularis Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nderl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 142 

 (name in synonymy). 



Labrichtys bicolor Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 696. Andaman 

 Islands. 



Cheilolabrus magnilabris Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, vol. 1, 1877, p. 345, pi. 16, fig. 2. Darnley Island. 



