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tius). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, 1877, p. 395 (Marquesas Islands); 



Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 400, fig. 13G. 

 Anampses coeruleopunciatus Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 



18, No. 3, 1879, p. 1 (Mauritius). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. GodeflFroy, vol. 



7 (15), 1881, p. 251 (Tahiti). 

 Anampses chlorostigma (Ehrenberg) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 



14, 1839, p. 7 (name in text). 

 Anampses coeruleomaculatus Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeflfroy, vol. 7 (15), 



1881, pi. 138. 

 Anampses pulcher Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913, p. 371, pi. 58, fig. 



3, pi. 59. Easter Island and Tahiti. 



Depth 2% to 2J4; head 2^ to 2J4, width 2}/^ to 2%. Snout 

 23^ to 2^; eye 6}4 to 6H, 23^ to 2% in snout, l>g to 1^ in inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches half way to eye, 3% to 4% in head; inter- 

 orbital convex, 3J^ to 4. Gill rakers 8 + 12, lanceolate, short. 



Scales in lateral line 21, 5 or 6 + 1; 5 or 6 scales above lateral line, 

 10 or 11 below, 11 predorsal. Scales with 17 to 19 basal radiating 

 striae with 3 or 4 marginals; 24 to 28 obsolete radiating apical striae; 

 circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 12, I, ninth spine 33^ to 3% in head, third branched ray 

 2% to 2J4', A. Ill, 12, I, third spine 3% to 4}^, second branched 

 ray 2^ to 2J4', caudal 1% to 15^, hind edge convex; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2)4 to 23^; pectoral 114 to 1%; ventral 2 to 2yV. 



Body drab neutral. Each scale with round gray white spot mar- 

 gined with darker. Head with 3 pale lines from eye, upward, 1 in 

 front forward across front of eye and 2 downward over cheek; also 

 1 from suprascapula toward eye, then down vertically on preopercle; 

 several lines on cheek continued down over interopercle; opercle 

 and subopercle with 5 or 6 oblique pale lines. Vertical fins all with 

 small, crowded pale dots, edges of fins narrowly whitish or greenish. 

 Pectoral pale brown, base deep dusky brown. Ventral brownish, 

 front edge narrowly greenish with submarginal dusky line. 



Red Sea, Mauritius and East Africa to the East Indies and Tahiti. 

 Variation is noticeable in the spots on the chest, breast, and side of 

 the abdomen, which sometimes elongated as streaks or variably may 

 extend over several scales. Lines on head variable, often broken or 

 variously incomplete. 



5677 and 5678. Cabugan Grande Island, Hinunangan Bay, Leyte. July 30, 1909. 

 Length, 195 to 200 mm. [1776 and 1777.] Agrees in general with Gunther's 

 figure. Side dark olive, reddish shades very dark vinaceous below, somewhat 

 paler above but not so bright as shown; blue stripes on head much brighter 

 and pattern differing irregularly; blue spots similar to stripes in color; spots 

 of anal short dashes crossing membranes, except first two or three central 

 which round dots, as shown by Gunther; blue margin rests on very narrow 

 black line, both dorsal and anal; basal row of spots on dorsal duplicated, 

 making dumbbell-shaped blotches; spots on outer portion of fin smaller than 

 shown, all with darker rims; spots of caudal also smaller, tip of fin hyaline; 

 body pale green and not reddish as shown. Pectorals hyaline olive. Ven- 

 trals vermilion, with blue spots on front and third and fourth rays. 



