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h*. Soft dorsal and anal with several longitudinal darker bands; small black 

 basal pectoral spot size of pupil tenuispinis. 



if. Head violet, without bands; dorsals and anals 



with longitudinal blue lines prosopeion. 



v^. Dorsal without black blotches; head with bands 

 or spots. 

 c*. Body with ocelli and bands. 

 (p. Body with broad longitudinal rosy band edged purple and blue; dorsal 



and anal with longitudinal blue and violet bands hartzfeldii. 



d*. Trunk, not tail, covered with red spots, ocellated with blue; yellow 



and black spots along back argus. 



d^. Front part of trunk rosy-violet, covered with green spots ocellated 

 with blue; hind part of trunk clear green, without ocelli. 



chloropterus. 

 c*. Body without ocelli or longitudinal bands, 

 e^. No white blotches along median axis of tail. 

 p. Dorsal with oblique orange bands; large dark blotch on flanks; back 



and tail with minute black dots gymnocephalus. 



f*. Dorsal and anal with oblique black streaks; head and tail rosy-orange; 



middle of trunk violet, with oblong black spots podostigma. 



e*. Four white spots along median axis of tail leucostigma. 



HALICHOERES CENTRIQUADRUS (Lacepede) 



Labrus centriquadrus (Commerson) Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802 

 pp. 437, 493. Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion. 



Hemitautoga centriquadrus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerl., vol. 1, 1862, 

 p. 139, pi. 32, fig. 3 (Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Sangi, Flores, 

 Timor, Letti, Amboina, Coram). — Bleeker, Ned. Tijds. Dierk., vol.4, 

 1874, p. 117 (China). 



Platyglossus {Hemitautoga) centriquadrus Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Wet. 

 Amsterdam, vol. 18, No. 3, 1879, p. 1 (Mauritius). 



Halichoeres centriquadrus Jordan and Seals, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 

 (1906), p. 300, pi. 46, fig. 3 (Pago Pago and Apia). — Jordan and Richard- 

 son, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 266 (Cagayancillo) . 



Labrus hortulanus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 449, 518, 

 pi. 29, fig. 2. Great Equatorial Ocean (Indo-Pacific). 



Julis hortulanus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 430 

 (Mauritius). — Guichenot, Notes I. Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 28. 



Platyglossus hortulanus Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, 

 p. 147 (Red Sea, Mauritius, Ceylon, Moluccas, Amboina, Celebes, East 

 Indies, Aneiteum); Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 94 (Zanzibar). — Klun- 

 ziNGER, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 546 (Koseir, Red 

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

 Moluccas).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 399, pi. 85, fig. 3 (Anda- 

 mans). — Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 37 (North 

 Celebes).— Day, Faun. British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 406, fig. 139.— 

 PiCAGLiA, Atti Soc. Nat. Modena, ser. 2, vol. 12, 1893, p. 33 (Aden). — 

 Steindachner, Abhandl. Senckenberg. Ges., vol. 25, 1900, p. 442 

 (Ternate). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeflfroy, vol. 8, 1909, p. 263 (East 

 Africa, Society Islands, Samoa, Aneiteum, Shortland, Mortlock, Ponape, 

 Guam, Rotuma). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 375 

 (Karakelang Island, Beo, Salibabu, Band^). 



Sparus decussatus Bennett, Fishes of Ceylon, 1834, pi. 14. Ceylon. 



Halichoeres eximius RtJppELL, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 16, pi. 5, 

 fig. 1. South half of Red Sea. 



