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Depth 3 to 3%; head 3 to 33^, width 2% to 2i^. Snout 3J^ to 

 3%; eye 5^ to 6, 1^ to 23/8 in snout, Ij/^ to 1^^ in interorbital; 

 maxillary half way to eye, 53^6 in head; interorbital 3% to 3^, convex. 

 Gill rakers 7 + 12, lanceolate, short. 



Scales 21 or 22, 4 or 5 + 2 or 3 in lateral line; 4 scales above lateral 

 line, 9 below, 10 predorsal. Scales with 15 to 18 basal radiating 

 striae and 2 to 4 marginals each side; 40 to 56 imperfect radiating 

 apical striae; circiili very fine. 



D. IX, 12, I, ninth spine 2% to 2% in head, third ray 23^ to 2%; 

 A. Ill, 12, I, third spine 3 to 4, first ray 2% to 2%; caudal 13^ to 

 IJ^, little emarginate, slightly double concave when expanded; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2)4 to 234; pectoral 13^^ to 1^; ventral 

 iVe to 2. 



Deep brown to slate black generally. Each scale with strongly 

 contrasted round white spot, small on smaller scales, especially along 

 edge of back and tail. Head thickly and closely spotted with white, 

 spots largest and some as short white blotches on cheeks, opercles and 

 breast of some examples. Dorsals and anals with pale or white edges 

 and finely spotted with whitish, largest spots all basal. Caudal yel- 

 lowish white. Pectoral pale or dilute yellowish. Ventral with front 

 edge narrowly whitish and several white blotches basally. Some 

 examples variable with distinct black ocellus, or larger dark spot 

 than any of pale spots, on last dorsal rays. Sometimes one may also 

 be present on last anal rays. 



Zanzibar and Mauritius to the East Indies. 



17425. Bulan Island, Samales Group. September 13, 1909. Length, 160 mm. 



15318. Cebu market. March 19, 1909. Length, 157 mm. [1399.] Ground 

 color very dark brown, becoming orange on front of head, including lower 

 parts; body of fins everywhere spotted with white or very pale yellow; spots 

 of fins slightly smaller than those on body. Soft dorsal and anal with a narrow 

 white margin. Caudal bright cadmium. Ventrals spotted, except terminal 

 portion of last three rays. Pectorals hyaline, white bar along bases of rays. 



15319. Cebu market. March 19, 1909. Length, 115 mm. 



8835. Mahinog, Camiguin Island. August 3, 1909. Length, 130 mm. 



883G. Mahinog. August 3, 1909. Length, 166 mm. 



1 example, Pilas Island. September 12, 1909. LeJngth, 170 mm. 



19955 U.S.N.M. Mauritius. Col. N. Pike. Length, 160 mm. 1 example. 



ANAMPSES CAERULEO-PUNCTATUS Ruppell 



Anampses caeruleo-pimctatus Ruppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Air.. Fische, 1828, 

 p. 42, pi. 10, fig. 1. Tor, Red Sea. — Gunther, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, 

 p. 91 (Zanzibar). 



Anampses caeruleopunctatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, 

 p. 5 (Mauritius, Red Sea, Tor); Regne Animal Cuv. 111., 1839, pi. 87, 

 fig. 2.— Bleekeu, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 104, pi. 24, 

 fig. 2 (Java and Amboina). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 

 1862, p. 135 (Mauritius). — Guichenot, Notes I. Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, 

 p. 28. — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 534 

 (copied). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 443 (Mauri- 



