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belly and breast broken as grayish spots. Along side of snout to 

 eye slightly darker brown shade than general color of head and this 

 continued beyond eye to suprascapula; also from maxillary angle 

 darker ill-defined band back across preopercle angle to interopercle. 

 Front of spinous dorsal over most of first 3 membranes blackish 

 brown. Below last dorsal rays and on upper surface of caudal 

 peduncle for 3 or 4 scales in extent down to lateral line and below 1 

 or 2 scales, blackish brown blotch. Outer ventral edge slightly 

 darker. 



Mauritius, Zanzibar, Ceylon, East Indies, Hawaii. Our examples 

 all agree with Bleeker's figure. The markings on the head, though 

 similar, are less conspicuous. Compared with the Hawaiian examples, 

 all of which show the dark posterior blotch above the lateral line and 

 dark lines extending longitudinally down to the tip of the snout, 

 besides 3 back from the eye and only narrow one from rictus back- 

 ward, there is little of specific distinction. 



A. 806. Zamboanga market. October 6. 1909. Length, 393 mm. 



A. 813. Zamboanga market. October 11, 1909. Length, 295 mm. 



5994. Zamboanga market. May 26, 1908. Length, 305 mm. 



51037 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 220 mm. 



50672 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. Bureau of Fisheries. Type of Lepidaplois 



strophodes. 

 55052 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. Albatross collection. Length, 170 mm. 

 55509 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 118 mm. 

 57914 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 240 to 252 mm. 



2 examples. 

 84087 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Length, 120 mm. 

 33125 A.N.S.P. Victoria, Australia. Mrs. Agnes Kenyon. Type of Lepidaplois 



richardsoni. 



LEProAPLOIS HIRSUTUS (Lacepede) 



Labrus hirsutus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 429, 473, pi. 20, 



fig. 1. Great Gulf of India. 

 Labrus rubrolineaius Lac^p^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 433, 480. 



Madagascar and Reunion. 

 Labrus macrourus LAcfipfcoE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 438, 493, 



pi. 9, fig. 3. Great Equatorial Ocean. 

 Cossyphds macrurus Guntheu, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 104 



(Mauritius and types of Labrus spilonotus) . — Gunther, Journ. Mus. 



Godeffroy, vol. 7 (15), 1881, p. 240, pi. 119, fig. A. (Mauritius and 



Vavau). — IsHiKAWA and Matstjura, Prelim. Cat. Fish. Imp. Mus. 



Tokyo, 1897, p. 30 (Japan). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. S. Af. 



Mus., vol. 11, pt. 2, 1911, p. 46 (Natal). 

 Lepidaplois macrurus Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 



(1907), p. 29 (Manila). 

 Crenilabrus croceus Lesson, Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 4, 1828, p. 407. 



Tombau Bay, Mauritius. 

 Crenilabrus chabrolii Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., vol. 2 (1), 1830, p 133, 



pi. 38 (on Crenilabrus croceus). 

 Labrus spilonotus Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 3, 1835, p. 207. 



Mauritius. 



