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blotch in the center of its base. Anal yellowish vermilion, a large black' 

 blotch on the anterior upper half of the soft portion, and another at axil.. 

 Ventrals yellowish, crossed by a broad black bar through middle; front edge 

 pink. Pectoral pink, with yellow on base. Iris red with purple and golden 

 shades behind. 



13528. Uki, Bouro Island, Dutch East Indies. December 9, 1909. Length, 

 178 mm. [2120.] Similar in pattern to Bleeker's plate; anterior colors more 

 purplish, light spots of back bright olive fading to very pale green; vertical fins 

 with brighter reds, none of the yellow shown in plate; spinous dorsal mem- 

 branes darker than shown, almost same as adjacent body color, front of spines 

 more dark, tip of first membrane nearly black. 



[2069.] Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 25, 1909. Length, 120 mm. 



LEPIDAPLOIS PERDITIO (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Labrus perditio Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., 1834, p. 702, 

 pi. 20, fig. 4. Tongatabu. 



CossT/phus perditio Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 125 

 (on Quoy and Gaimard). 



Lepidaplois perditio Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, 

 1902, p. 618, fig. 2 (near Wakanoura, Japan). — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 506 (Okinawa). — Ogilby, Mem, Queensland Mus.,, 

 vol. 5, 1916, p. 184 (off Moreton Bay). 



Cossyphus atrolumbus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss, vol. 13, 1839, p. 

 123. Mauritius. — Guichenot, Notes I. Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 28. — 

 GtTNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 105 (Mauritius; Minerva 

 Reef between Queensland and New Caledonia and Saumarez Reefs in 

 Coral Sea; Aneiteum). — Gijnther, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 87 (Zan- 

 zibar). — Steindachner, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 57 (1), 1868, p. 

 997 (Mauritius). — GtJNXHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 7 (15), 1881^ 

 p. 241 (Mauritius, Zanzibar, Minerva Reef, Tongatabu, Aneiteum). 



Depth 2}i; head 2J4, width 2. Snout 2}4; eye 7}4, 2^ in 

 snout, 2 in interorbital; maxillary nearly reaches opposite front eye 

 edge, length 2%'m. head; front canines |; teeth in jaws with broad 

 semimolar dentary areas along each side and only several lower 

 posterior ones slightly larger; interorbital broadly convex, 3J^ in 

 head; preopercle edge entire. Gill rakers 8 + 13, short lanceolate 

 points. 



Scales in lateral line 31+2; 6 scales above lateral line, 12 below, 

 17 predorsal. Cheek with 8 rows of scales to preopercle ridge, flange 

 naked. Tubes in lateral line simple. Scales with 23 basal radiating 

 striae; 10 obsoletely apical; circuli fine. 



D. XIII, 10, I, twelfth spine 3^ in head, first ray 2%] A. Ill, 12, 

 I, third spine 3%, first ray 2j's; caudal nearly long as head, emargi- 

 nate, median rays forming slight convexity behind and upper and 

 lower rays exserted points; least depth of caudal peduncle 2x5-; 

 pectoral 13^; ventral, l}/^. 



Generally pale brown, head slightly darker and with thick-set ob- 

 scure, small pale orange spots, more distinct on front. On back, close 

 behind end of pectoral pale yellowish blotch of about 3 scales width and 



