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may be smaller than dorsal. Pectoral pale yellowish brown, its base 

 dark like body. Ventral blackish brown or dark like trunk. 

 East Indies, Micronesia. 



12666. Cebu market. April 4, 1908. Length, 182 mm. 



7838. Cebu market. April 9, 1908. Length, 184 mm. 



18802. Cebu market. April 21, 1909. Length, 177 mm. 



6254 and 6255. Cebu iijarket. August 29, 1909. Length, 141 to 153 mm. 



19054. Cebu market. Length, 163 mm. 



7191. Gondra Island. September 20, 1909. Length, 155 mm. 



1 example, Jolo. March 6-7, 1908. Length, 153 mm. 



9163. Little Santa Cruz, Zamboanga. May 26, 1908. Length, 174 mm. 



17138. Murcielagos Bay, Mindanao. August 20, 1909. Length, 168 mm. 



1 example, Philippines. Length, 178 mm. [1840.] 



4803. Powati Harbor, Makyan Island. November 20, 1909. Length, 210 mm. 

 Black on top of head; body above line of pectoral shading into tawny on hind 

 third. Breast region and lower head brick red shades. Dorsal black, with 

 brick-red shades in front and tawny behind; jet black ocellus on last three rays 

 and membranes with narrow yellow rim. Lips whitish. Caudal sooty black, 

 with narrow hyaline tip. Anal similar to dorsal but with more tawny shades; 

 ocellus same, not quite so close to posterior edge. Anal black, with brick red 

 membranes. Pectoral hyaline yellow, upper edge blackish, base black. Iris 

 dark, with narrow crimson inner edge. 



7650. San Roque, Lej^te. July 29, 1909. Length, 159 mm. [1753.] Very 

 dark olive-brown; scales show somewhat reddish margins on fading but no 

 spots or bars; head similar but of more purplish shade. Dorsal and anal 

 similar to body, without markings except large black centered tawny rimmed 

 ocellus on last three or four rays; caudal plain except hyaline pinkish tips; 

 ventrals colored as body; pectorals olive yellow; membranes more or less 

 hyaline. 



14298 and 14299. Teomabal Island. September 18, 1909. Length, 134 to 

 150 mm. 



ANAMPSES GEOGRAPHICUS Valenciennes 



Anampses geographicus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 10, 

 pi. 389. No locality.— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, 

 p. 102, pi. 25, fig. 3 (Amboina and Ceram). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 137 (Amboina) ; Cruise of Curacoa, Brenchley, 1873, 

 p. 411 (Misol, Moluccas). — Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. BerUn, 1876, 

 p. 443 (Mauritius). — Ishikawa and Matsuura, Prelim. Cat. Fish. Mus. 

 Tokyo, 1897, p. 29 (Japan). — Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 24, 1902, p. 628 (copied). 



Anampses lineolatus Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 3, 1835, p. 208. 

 Mauritius. 



Depth 2% to 3; head 2^ to 3)4, width 2^ to 2%. Snout 

 2M to 31/^; eye 6 to 73^, 2}4 to 2% in snout, 13^ to 2 in interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches half way to eye, 43^ to 5 in head; interorbital 

 3^/c to 4, convex. Gill rakers 9 + 10, lanceolate, short, slender. 



Scales m lateral line 38 to 39, 8 or 9 + 2; 10 or 11 scales above 

 lateral line, 20 or 21 below, 16 to 20 predorsal. Basal radiating and 

 marginal striae 15, apical 24 to 36, feeble or indistinct; circuli very 

 fine. 



D. IX, 12, I, ninth spine 3 J^ to 4 1^ in head, third ray 2% to 3; 

 A. Ill, 12, 1, third spine 4}4 to 4^/^, first ray 3 to 33^^; caudal l>i to 1^, 



