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11204. West Island, Palumbanes Group. June 11, 1909. Length, 170 mm. 

 Very dark olive green; in center of each scale bright blue round spot about 

 size of No. 9 shot; surrounding this shade or umbra of dark brown; these tend 

 to fuse forming dark stripe through center of scale rows; breast and belly 

 strongly washed with vermilion spots, becoming irregular on breast, with 

 less shading; top and side of head similar to body, crossed by narrow blue 

 stripes defined by brownish, similar to that on scale spots; four of these across 

 cheek parallel to hinder limb of opercle, first very short extends forward not 

 reaching top of snout; similar stripe lies along premaxiUary across snout; 

 second cheek bar extends across preorbital almost to contour of snout; third 

 breaks across eye and crosses forehead from eye to eye above, fourth lies just 

 within preopercular limb, curves backward around upper edge of opercle; 

 horseshoe lies on front of opercle and about four more or less irregularly placed 

 short dashes on remainder of surface; interopercle spotted with blue; double 

 blue line lies along throat; chin and throat more or less washed with ver- 

 milion over ground-color. Dorsal and anal similar to ground of body but 

 with strong reddish shade; front margins bright blue, resting on very narrow 

 black line; at base of each membrane short dash of blue, shaded as body 

 spots; central body of dorsal numerously spotted with very small blue centered 

 spots similar to those on body except in size. Anal, ground more purplish 

 shade, carries single row of spots through center, almost vathout darker rim, 

 owing to darkness of body ground. Caudal similar to body, spots very small 

 and mostly on rays; tip of fin hyaline, and paler band submarginal to this. 

 Ventrals dark vermilion, becoming orange and hyaline posteriorly, front blue; 

 few blue specks on body. Pectorals dusky hyaline olive, blue bar at base of 

 rays and dash on base of upper ray. 



19075. Silino Island. August 10, 1909. Length, 166 mm. [1813.] Body color 

 olive, spots cerulean blue, surrounded by blackish ring, these connecting into 

 stripes more or less on lower body. Verticals with vinaceous tone, less marked 

 on caudal. Pectorals dark at base. 



52428 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 146 to 259 mm. 

 4 examples. 



71657 U.S.N.M. Japan. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 185 to 210 mm. 

 2 examples. 



ANAMPSES DIADEMATUS Ruppell 



Anampses diadematus Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fisch., 1835, p. 21, pi. 6, 

 fig. 3. Tor, Red Sea. — Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, 

 p. 14 (Red Sea).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 137 

 (copied); Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 91 (Zanzibar, Aden). — Klun- 

 ziNGER, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 533 (Koseir, Red 

 Sea). — GtJNTHER, Cruise of Curacoa, Brenchley, 1873, p. 411 (Misol, 

 Moluccas). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 443 (Mau- 

 ritius and Seychelles). — Gxjnther, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc, vol. 168, 

 1879, p. 470 (Rodriguez); Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol.7 (15), 1881, p. 252, 

 pi. 139 (Misol, Samoa, Gilbert Islands, Huahine, Paumotus). 

 Anampses taeniatus Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 457 

 (on Anampses d bandes Lienard, Treiz. Rapp. Soc. hist. nat. Maurice, 

 1843, p. 86, Mauritius). 

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

 2K; eye 8, 3 H to 33^ in snout, 2 to 2}/^ in interorbital; maxillary 

 3^ to % to eye, 33^ to 3 J^ in head; interorbital 3% to 3%, convex. 

 Gill rakers 8 + 11, lanceolate, short. 



