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nent, extend forward, compressed, with cutting edges. No hind 

 canines. Preopercle entire. Scales moderate or large. Head scale- 

 less. Lateral line continuous. Dorsal spines 9, rays 12. Anal 

 spines 3, rays 12. 



Rather large, dark colored fishes, of the Indo-Pacific. 



ANALYSIS or THE SPKCIES 



o^ Amphbces. About 50 scales in lateral line. 



¥. Head without bands; dorsal and anal with large black blotch on hind 



rays pterophthalmus. 



&*. Head with blue bands and vermiculations; dorsal and anal without 



black blotch geographicus. 



a^. Anampses. Scales 27 to 30 in lateral line. 



c^ Head without round spots; caudal uniform yellow; pectoral base 



pale like rest of fin meleagrides. 



c^. Head with blue bands or lines; pectoral base dark. 



d'. Each scale with round blue spot; caudal with small blue spots 



coeruleo-punctatus. 



d^. Each scale with blue vertical line or bar; caudal without spots; 



young with transverse pale band from middle of spinous dorsal 



down to side of abdomen dimidiatus. 



ANAMPSES PTEROPHTHALMUS Bleeker 



Anampses pterophthalmus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Ind. N6erl. (Amboina 8) 

 vol. 2, 1857, p. 81. Amboina; Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p 

 102, pi. 24, fig. 3 (Amboina and Celebes). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit 

 Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 138 (Amboina); Journ. Mus. Godefifroy, vol, 7 (15) 

 1881, p. 253 (Amboina. Celebes, Oualan). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, 

 Fische, 1913, p. 367 (Karkaralong Island). 



Ampheces pterophthalmus Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 

 27, 1907 (1908), p. 265 (Cuyo). 



Depths to 33/g; head 2^^ to 2J4, width 2^ to 2}i. Snout 2^ 

 to 3; eye 6 to 8, 2}4 to 3 in snout, 13^^ to 2 in interorbital ; maxillary 

 reaches % to ^ to eye, 3^ to 5 in head; interorbital Sj4 to 4, 

 convex. Gill rakers 7 + 10, lanceolate, short, rather slender. 



Scales in lateral line 39 or 40, 9 or 10 + 2; 9 or 10 scales above 

 lateral line, 20 to 22 below, 15 to 17 predorsal. Scales with 14 to 

 19 basal radiating striae; 42 to 47 feeble or imperfect radiating 

 apical striae; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 12, I, nmth spine 3% to 4^ in head, third ray 2^ to 2^; 

 A. Ill, 12, I, third spine 4 to 5%, third ray 2% to 2J4; caudal 1^ 

 to 1^, slightly emarginate or truncate, slightly convex behind when 

 expanded; least depth of caudal peduncle 23^ to 2%; pectoral 1% 

 to 1%; ventral 2}i to 2}4. 



Largely dark uniform brown, varying from walnut brown to seal 

 brown. Vertical fins all dark brown like body, only caudal with 

 narrow whitish hind margin. On last 3 or 4 membranes of soft 

 dorsal and anal a variable neutral black ocellus, its edge pale or whitish 

 and size usually greater than eye, never absent and only anal ocellus 



