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above, from side pale green; upper bronze stripe close under dorsal as oblong 

 areas under whitish bars; second and third stripes extend along middle of 

 side from opercle to caudal base, lower almost a continuous line; top of head 

 with narrow reddish lines, one as inverted y between eyes and across upper 

 snout; broad stripe from front of eye curving up on preorbital front across 

 maxillary; similar line from lower hind eye corner back and up to upper angle 

 of opercle; inverted u on cheek below eye and another line curving across 

 opercle to its lower edge; blotch on opercle flap. All lines of head about 

 equal pupil in width, of dusky geranium red, defined by narrow black borders; 

 ground color blue green; pale reddish triangular blotch on opercle. Dorsal 

 green, tips hyaline; submarginally dull geranium red, narrow on spinous 

 part; broader than pupil on soft fin; spinous fin medially with bar of dull red, 

 broken on last spines, forming blotch on front rays beginning as continuous 

 line again which throws oblique branches upward to submarginal band and 

 downward to fin base; black blotch on first rays; triangular opercular blotch 

 shows burnished metallic as seen in front. Caudal like body color, rays 

 crossed by numerous narrow bars (6 or 7) of red becoming nearly scarlet at 

 tips; blackish blotch on caudal peduncle at caudal base median and more 

 obscure one between posterior ends of dorsal and anal. 



6 examples, Maculabo Island. June 14, 1909. Length, 69 to 82 mm. 



1 example, Mansalay, Mindoro. June 4, 1908. Length, 71 mm. 



13890 and 13891. Observatory Island. December 19, 1908. Length, 80 to 

 90 mm. 



1 example, Philippines. Length, 74 mm. 



2 examples, Romblon. March 25, 1908. Length, 75 to 80 mm. 



3 examples, Ulugan Bay, near Baheli River mouth. December 25, 1908. Length 



80 to 87 mm. 

 51993 U.S.N.M. Negros. Dr. B. Dean. Length, SO mm. 1 example. 

 56255 U.S.N.M. Luzon. Philippine Commission. Length, 89 mm. 

 31136 to 31138 A.N.S.P. Apia. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 73 to 90 mm. 



27713 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. Messrs. Harrison and Hiller. Length, 98 

 mm. Type of Halichoeres annulatus. 



27714 A.N.S.P. Padang. Messrs. Harrison and Hiller. Length, 97 mm. 

 Paratype of Halichoeres annulatus. 



HALICHOERES REICHEI (Bleeker) 



Julis {Halichoeres) reichei Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N^erl. (Bljd. 



Visch. Sumat.), vol. 3, 1857-58, p. 43. Trussan, West Sumatra; Am- 



boina; Kajeli, Buru Island. 

 Halichoeres reichei Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 116, 



pi. 37, fig. 1 (Java, Bawean, Bali, Sumatra, Buru, Amboina). 

 Platyglossus nehulosus (not Valenciennes) GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 151 (part).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, 



p. 400.— Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 36 (Sangi 



and Ternate). 

 Halichoeres nehulosus Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 



1907 (1908), p. 267 (Cuyo). 



Depth 3M to 3^; head 2% to 3, width 2% to 2^^. Snout 3 to 

 3Mj 6ye 4^ to 43^, 1 3^ to 1% in snout, 1^^ to little over in inter- 

 orbital; maxillary ^ to ^ to eye, 3^ to 3V8 in head; interorbital 

 byi to 5%, broadly convex. Gill rakers 8+11, lanceolate, short. 



Scales in lateral line 22, 5 + 1; 3 or 4 scales above lateral line, 

 9 below, 7 predorsal. Scales with 22 to 30 basal radiating striae, 

 apical 19 to 30; circuli very fine. 



