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East Indian region. Bleeker had but 2 examples, 39 and 69 mm. 

 long and Beaufort an example 36 mm. long. The only other example 

 known is listed below. 



16258. Teomabal Island. September 18, 1909. Length, 97 mm. [1955]. Back 

 slaty or olive; pale whitish olive stripe begins behind premaxillary on snont, 

 passes over eye and backward to root of caudal; under this a broad band pass- 

 ing through eye to base of caudal, similar in color to back, probably blackish at 

 some stages; tip of opercle very narrowly yellow; lips black at point of head; 

 silvery stripe from corner of mouth broadening backward obliquely downward 

 across cheek and opercle; pink shade under this; lower side of bod}^ silvery with 

 slight yellowish wash. Base of dorsal body color; above this bar of same color 

 as first body stripe; this central on soft portion, distal part of fin hyaline. 

 Caudal cadmium yellow, black and whitish bars extending on to its base. Anal 

 hyaline. Paired fins slightly dusky. 



LABROIDES BICOLOR, new species 



Depth 3%; head 2%, width 2%. Snout ?>}i', eye 6^, 2 m 

 snout, 1^ in interorbital; maxillary reaches ^ to eye, 53^ in head; 

 lips both divided, broad and fleshy; canines anteriorly f, strong; 

 strong posterior canine each side; interorbital 3% in head, broadly 

 convex. Gill rakers 3 + 7, short, weak points. 



Scales in lateral line 20, 6 + 1 ; 4 scales above lateral line, 10 below, 

 9 predorsal to occiput. Scales with 33 to 38 basal radiating striae, 

 apical 36 to 38; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 11,1, ninth spine 5 3^ in head, first ray 3%; A. Ill, 10, I, 

 third spine 43^, first ray 3; caudal 13^, convex behind; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2}/^; pectoral 1^; ventral 23^. 



Anterior half of body vandyke-brown and posterior half rather 

 abruptly white, including caudal except a black submarginal crescent 

 on latter. Dorsals and anals blackish brown basally, abruptly and 

 broadly white edged. Paired fins dark. Pectoral grayish and with- 

 out dark base. Ventral more brown, front edge slightly gray. 



KJiown only from a single example. Apparently a very distinct 

 species and readily distinguished by its greatly contrasted color 

 pattern. 



Type.— Ctii. No. 89970, U.S.N.M. 

 10472. Port Maricaban. July 21, 1908. Length, 110 mm. Type. 



{Bicolor, two colors.) 



Genus ANAMPSES Quoy and Gaimard 



Anampses (Cuvieb) Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, ZooL, November 

 20, 1824, p. 276. Type Anampses cuvier QuoT and Gaimard, mono- 

 typic. 



Anampsis Swainson, Nat. Hist. An., vol. 2, 1839, p. (173) 233 (error). 



Ampheces Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, 1902, p. 628. 

 Type Anampses geographicus Valenciennes, monotypic. 



Body oblong, compressed. Caudal peduncle compressed. Head 

 moderate, compressed, pointed. Teeth uniserial. Canines f, promi- 



