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interorbital ; maxillary extends % to eye, 3^ to 4^ in head; inter- 

 orbital 4}^ to 5%, broadly convex. Gill rakers 6+13, lanceolate, 

 slender. 



Scales in lateral line 21, 4 or 5 + 2; 3 scales above lateral line, 9 

 below, 7 or 8 predorsal. Scales with 25 to 28 basal radiating striae, 

 apical 17 to 20; circiili very fine. 



D. IX, 11, 1, ninth spine 2^ to 3K in head, first ray 2)4 to 2^; A. 

 II, 11, 1, second spine 3% to 43/^, first ray 3K to 3%; caudal 13^3 to 1%, 

 convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 23/8 to 234; pectoral 

 1^ to IJ^; ventral ly^ to VA. 



Body drab gray, pale below, each scale with subterminal deep 

 drab gray vertical streak, bordered behind with gray white line. 

 Predorsal and humeral region with pearl gray blotches, on head as 

 pearl gray band from near snout tip along lower eye edge to front of 

 opercle, sometimes separated as blotch on latter; also 2 or 3 more on 

 opercle. Gray blue line from front of snout above to upper front 

 eye edge. White branch obliquely down from pectoral axil to front 

 of postventral. Dusky blotch at fifth or sixth scale of lateral line 

 and another little larger at upper side of caudal peduncle above 

 lateral line. 



Fins all very dilute brownish. Dorsals with 2 longitudinal white 

 lines on spinous fin and 3 on rayed portion, basal more or less reticu- 

 late with median. Anals with white subbasal longitudinal line and 

 median gray longitudinal band. Paired fins and caudal uniform. 

 Some examples with small dusky spot also at upper median caudal 

 rays basally. 



East Indies, Micronesia, Fiji, Samoa. 



20100 and 20101. Cagayjin, Sulu Island. January 8, 1909. Length, 88 to 93 

 mm. [1067.] Pale dusky green; yellowish shades on side of head and body 

 anteriorly; stripes and spots of head bright reddish orange, becoming slightly 

 tawny on preorbital; small black spot less than eye on anterior portion of 

 lateral line; another on upper part of peduncle larger than eye fading to 

 bronzy; throat with orange line extending on breast, latter with yello-wish 

 wash; lower side above anal whitish. Dorsal body color, soft tips hyaline; 

 narrow orange or geranium bar crossing tips of spines carried as inframarginal 

 bar on soft portion, another bar near base of fin and one through central por- 

 tion, last two fusing on second spine. Caudal pale, more or less orange at 

 base. Distal third of anal hyaline pink; bar of geranium red at base, middle 

 pale yellowish green color of dorsal; basal bar similar to dorsal bars in colora- 

 tion but somewhat brighter; bases of scales on posterior portion of body ocher 

 on pink bar. 



1 example, Great Tobea Island. December 15, 1909. Length, 54 mm. 



2 examples, Basa Reef, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 17, 1909. Length, 21 

 to 41 mm. 



52226 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 90 to 104 mm. 



9 examples. 

 56984 U.S.N.M. Apia. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 54 to 101 mm. 7 



examples. 



