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green; preorbital marked with subtriangular chrome blotch, bordered with 

 blue; cheek with chrome and pink blotch passing upward behind eye, cover- 

 ing postorbital and upper part of opercle; this defined indefinitely by narrow 

 blue line; top of head and nape with round dots and blotches of pinkish; 

 opercle indistinctly blotched with lavender red; broken series of stripes pass- 

 ing from gill opening downward around base of pectoral and ventral. Dorsal: 

 proximal half pale geranium pink, bordered above and below by bluish shades, 

 above pale yellow band; tips of spinous portion pink, the color continued as 

 submarginal band on soft portion, with tips hyaline. Caudal tipped with 

 lemon yellow about breadth of eye, remainder of fin with geranium red bars, 

 interspaces lilac with yellowish wash. Anal base geranium pink, bordered 

 below very narrowly by blue; above with broad blue band occup3dng middle 

 portion of fin; terminal third hyaline, with pink internally. Ventral hyaline, 

 produced tip whitish. Pectoral hyaline. Iris orange red. 



2 examples, Sablayan, Mindoro. December 15, 1908. Length, 51 to 62 mm. 



4 examples, Simaluc, Bisibisi Island. September 23, 1909. Length, 26 to 58 mm. 



22508. Tataan, Simaluc Island, Tawi Tawi. February 20, 1908. 4 examples. 

 Length 60 to 83 mm. [240.] Back and top of head light grayish green, 

 sides and below bluish white; broad and very distinct zig-zag lateral stripe 

 wide as eye from gill slit to caudal base (upper) ; continued forward as black 

 bar on opercle and dark bar on snout; broad band from snout through eye to 

 gill slit greenish, yellow on snout, lemon yellow on opercle. Iris yellow, con- 

 tinued backward and involving the black lateral band in an obscure yellow 

 green. Dorsal pale greenish yellow. Caudal pink, pale yellow at base, 

 the margin hyaline. Ventrals and pectorals colorless. 



14296. Teomabal Island. September 18, 1909. Length, 122 mm. 



2 examples, Tobea Island. December 15, 1909. Length, 58 mm. 



13151. Tumindao Island. February 20, 1908. Length, 110 mm. 



2 examples, Basa Reef, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 17, 1099. Length, 

 21 to 41 mm. 



1 example, Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. Length, 118 mm. 



56000 U. S. N. M. Bacon. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 132 mm. 1 example. 



HALICHOERES TRIMACULATUS (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Julis irimaculata Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 3, 1834, 

 p. 705, pi. 20, fig. 2. Vanikolo. 



Guntheria irimaculata Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 

 138, pi. 32, fig. 1 (Cocos, Celebes, Sangi, Flores, Burn, Amboina, Haruko, 

 Banda, Coram, Letti). 



Platyglossus trimaculatus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 

 153 (East Indies); Cruise Curacoa, Brenchley, 1873, p. 410 (Solomons). — 

 IsHiKAWA and Matsuura, Prelim. Cat. Fish. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 29 

 (Japan). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol., 8 (16), 1909. p. 266 

 (Samoa, Fiji, Solomons, Ellice Islands, Vanicolo, Pelew Islands, East 

 Indies).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 372 (Lombok, 

 Salibabu, Saleyer, Binongka, Timor, Rotti). 



Choerojidis irimaculata Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 397 

 (Amboina). 



Halichoeres trimaculata Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 

 27, 1907 (1908), p. 266 (Cagayancillo) . 



Julis (Halichoeres) spilurus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 2, 1851, 

 p. 252. Neira, Banda. 



Depth S}4 to VA; head 2% to 3^, width 2)4 to 2}/^. Snout 3 

 to 3^; eye 33^ to 5, 1^ to \% in snout, equals or Httle greater than 



