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little concave behind, double concave when expanded; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 23/3 to 2^; pectoral 15^ to 2; ventral 2}^ to 23^. 



Dark brown, generally with plumbeous shades over head along 

 vertical fins and body edges. Head with many rather fine vermic- 

 ulating lines, of which 2 or 3 sometimes continuous across snout; 

 several also extend down across lower side of head, chest, and breast. 

 Scales on body each with small vertical pale or grayish line, becoming 

 very fine dot on scales about body edges and on caudal base. Vertical 

 fins all slaty plumbeous, finely dotted with whitish and edges broadly 

 creamy white; on median portion of tail white lines mostly replace 

 dots. Pectoral pale olive, with some pale whitish basal spots and 

 lines. Ventral plumbeous, outer edge whitish, inner rays paler, also 

 2 or 3 whitish lines. Iris pale yellowish. 



Mauritius to the East Indies and Japan. Our Cebu example 

 shows rather obscure large dark ocellus on last dorsal and anal rays 

 as in Anampses pteropJithalmus. Most of the examples differ from 

 Bleeker's figure in that both soft dorsal and anal have variably 

 broken or short pale lines as well as spots. 



5673. Cabugan Island, Hinunangan Bay, Leyte. July 30, 1909. Length, 220 

 mm. [1778.] General shade olive with purplish tone anteriorly and blue 

 posteriorly; vertical bar of scales bright blue with darker edges; dash of green 

 above pectoral; on abdominal region vertical bars of scales changing to 

 horizontal stripes, becoming dots along base of anal. Dorsal and anal with 

 blue fronts and margins; body of dorsal olive below with reddish shade 

 under marginal band, bright blue line at its base throughout and two rows 

 of small dots above, outer one fusing into an almost solid line. Anal body 

 purplish, central band of blue breadth of pupil; basal line similar to that on 

 dorsal but broader and a single row of more or less fusing dots between and 

 central band. Caudal rays blue, membranes reddish becoming permanent color 

 to form two stripes to middle of lobes. Ventrals with blue fronts, line through 

 rays more or less blue. Pectorals olive gray, rays more or less dusky, upper 

 ray bright blue; blue bar across base, fleshy part below brownish; a second bar 

 at base of fleshy part. 



9116. Catbalogan, Samar. April 15, 1908. Length, 230 mm. 



5954. Cavitc market. December 1, 1908. Length, 237 mm. 



5396 and 7839. Cebu market. April 7, 1908. Length, 183 to 214 mm. 



11747. Port Banalacan, Marinduque Island. February 23, 1909. Length, 212 

 mm. 



2 examples, Sitanki Reef. September 24, 1909. Length, 127 to 185 mm. [2149.] 



1860. Tambul Sigambul, Tonquil Island. September 14, 1909. Length, 226 

 mm. 



7184. Tara Island. September 20, 1909. Length, 174 mm. 



ANAMPSES MELEAGRIDES Valenciennes 



Anampses meleagrides Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1840, p. 12. 



Mauritius. — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 102, pi. 



24, fig. 1 (Amboina). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 



367 (Banda). 

 Anampses meleagris Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 135 



(Mauritius and Amboina); Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 91 (Zanzibar). — 



Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 551 (C. de Cebu). 



