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extending little below lateral line. Behind this scales all with more or 

 less basal deep brown streak or blotch, though less conspicuously on 

 upper edge of caudal base. Spinous dorsal anteriorly, or for first 

 four spines, neutral slate. Fins otherwise all pale brown. 



Alauritius, Zanzibar, Queensland, Riu Kiu, Melanesia. It has not 

 yet been reported from India or the East Indian region. 



A. 1609. Nafa market, Riu Kiu Islands. February 7, 1910. Length, 522 mm. 

 71655. U.S.N. M. Nafa. Albatross collection. Length, 187 to 207 mm. 2 

 examples. 



LEProAPLOIS BILUNULATUS (Lac^pede) 



Labrus bilunulatus Lac6p6de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 454, 526, 

 pi. 31, fig. 2. Great Equatorial Ocean (Indo-Pacific). 



Cossyphus bilunulatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 121 

 (Mauritius). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1862, p. 101, pi. 38, 

 fig. 3 (Amboina).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 105 

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

 GtJNTHER, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 87 (Zanzibar) ; Cruise of Curacoa, 

 Brenchley, 1873, p. 411 (Misol, Moluccas). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. 

 Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 443 (Mauritius). — Gtjnther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 

 vol. 7 (15), 1881, p. 240, pi. 130 (Mauritius, Zanzibar, Amboina, Misol, 

 Hawaiian Islands). — Day, Fishes of India, Suppl., 1888, p. 802 (Ceylon); 

 Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 396. 



Lepidaplois bilunulatus Sbale and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 

 1907, p. 245 (Zamboanga). 



Cossyphus albotaeniatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, 

 p. 141. Hawaiian Islands. 



Lepidaplois albotaeniatus Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 

 vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 278 (Honolulu and Hilo). 



Lepidaplois strophodes Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 

 vol. 22, 1902 (1903), p. 190. Honolulu. 



Lepidaplois richardsoni Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1907, p. 434, 

 fig. 7. "Victoria, Australia" [probably really from the South Seas?]. 



Depth 2]/^ to 3; head 2^^ to 2]^, width 2}i to 23.^. Snout 3.* 

 eye 5^ to 6, 1J4 to 2 in snout, 1% to 1^ in interorbital ; maxillary 

 reaches pupil, 23^ to 2% in head; interorbital 3 5^ to 4, broadly 

 convex. Gill rakers 6 + 12, lanceolate, short. 



Scales 28 to 30 in lateral line, each tube with few short branchlets; 

 6 scales above lateral line, 10 to 12 below, 14 or 15 predorsal. Scales 

 with 12 to 20 basal radiating striae and 4 or 5 marginals; 4 to 7 

 obsolete apical striae; circuli fine. 



D. XII, 9, I or 10, I, twelfth spine 3}4 to 33^ in head, seventh 

 ray 2^^ to 23^; A. Ill, 12, i, third spine 3^^ to 43/^, eleventh ray 2% 

 to 2J^; caudal 1^ to 13^, emarginate, little convex behind when 

 expanded and upper and lower rays exserted; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2}4 to 2}4', pectoral 13^ to 1%; ventral 13-^ to 13^. 



Uniform pale brown generally, each row of scales on trunk and 

 tail with median grayish or whitish streak or narrow band and on 



