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black line given off at hind edge from upper broad black band and 

 extends forward along whole lower edge of caudal and caudal pe- 

 duncle. This band broken or absent from caudal in small examples. 

 Paired fins white, with brown or black spot below bases of lower 

 pectoral rays. Most examples have lower part of head anteriorly 

 and muzzle soiled brown or dusky. 



Red Sea, Zanzibar, Mauritius to the East Indies, Philippines, 

 Samoa, Hawaii. 



5094. Cebii market. April 5, 1908. Length, 93 mm. 



1 example, Simaluc Island. September 22, 1909. Length, 78 mm. 



5013. Surigao, Mindanao. May 8, 1908. Length, 54 mm, 



56230 U.S.N.M. Bacon. Philippine Commission. Length, 70 mm. 



The following is referred to this species: 



No. 1289, Ragay Bay, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 10, 1909. We have not 

 found the specimen. Top of head and anterior back drab; lower head 

 dusky silvery, merging into bright blue on side through breast and pectoral 

 region; bright black stripe beginning at corner of mouth, passes through eye 

 and broadens posteriorly to include most of peduncle above lateral line, con- 

 tinued to tip of dorsal somewhat obhquely downward; shorter black stripe 

 begins behind anal, runs obliquely across caudal to join upper stripe at tip. 

 Dorsal bluish, black stripe at base coveiing most of spinous portion. Anal 

 bright blue, with black stripe near base beginning about second spine, broadening 

 to include all of last ray. Paired fins dusky, small black spot below pectoral 

 base. 



LABROIDES XANTHURUS Bleeker 



Labroides xanthurus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N<5erl. (Manado), vol. 1, 



1856, p. 52. Manado, Celebes. — Gijnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 



1862, p. 120 (copied). 

 Diproctacanthus xanthurus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, 



p. 156, pi. 21, fig. 2 (Manado). — Beaufort, Bijd. Dierk. Amsterdam, 



vol. 16, 1913, p. 131 (Ambon). 



Depth 34^; head 2J4, width 2^. Snout 33^; eye dVz, 1% in 

 snout, 1% in interorbital; maxillary reaches 3^ to eye, 4^ in head; 

 lips thick, fleshy, finely papillose; interorbital 3^, broadly convex; 

 preopercle edge entire. Gill rakers 3 + 6, short, weak points. 



Scales in lateral line 29, 6 + 1 ; 8 scales above lateral line, 14 below, 

 16 predorsal; 4 rows across upper posterior part of cheek. Scales 

 with 14 to 16 basal radiating striae, 9 or 10 apical; circuli very fine. 

 D. IX, 10, I, ninth spine 3J4 iii head, first ray 3%; A. Ill, 9, i, second 

 spine 53^, first ray 2%; caudal 1%, truncate, little convex as ex- 

 panded; pectoral 2; ventral 2}/^. 



Back dull chocolate brown. Lips in front seal brown. From 

 end of snout each side to eye and then back along median axis of body 

 broad bistre band to bases of supero-median caudal rays. Under 

 surface of head and body white. Iris pale pea green. Dorsals pale 

 brown, other fins whitish. 



