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Chocolate to vandyke brown, little paler below. Back with small 

 blue black spot or dot at base of each scale, not extending on caudal 

 peduncle and not much posterior of depressed pectoral in smaller 

 examples. Side of head with 6 or 7 horizontal narrow blue lines, 

 upper or those above eye more or less broken into dots or short bars. 

 Iris deep brown. Lower surface of head but little paler than upper. 

 Dorsals and anals very pale, former with 5 and latter with 4 longi- 

 tudinal brown bands of which outer narrowest. At front of spinous 

 dorsal second membrane with median round blackish blotch. Larg- 

 est example also with small blackish spot, about size of pupil, at 

 bases of uppermost caudal rays. Paired fins pale brownish, entire 

 base of pectoral broadly blackish. 



Known from the following examples. It is distinguished by its 

 black based pectorals and dark dotted back. 



Type.— Cat. No. 89972, U.S.N.M. 



17525. Lampinigan Island. September 11, 1909. Length, 126 mm. Type. 



2373 (Dr. 1572). Length, 115 mm. Paratype. 



[1647.] Maculabo. June 14, 1909. Length, 110 mm. Paratype. Smoky 

 purplish; on hind part of body fins with narrow orange bar showing rather 

 obscurely; on upper and front part each scale with black speck in base, forming 

 rows; side of head with narrow obscure reddish stripes, one across preorbital, 

 3 on cheek and opercle, another behind eye. Dorsal body color, submargin 

 almost scarlet and four irregular undulating narrow scarlet bars across body of 

 fin, reduced to three posteriorly, lower forms arches from base of one ray to 

 that of next. Caudal rays olive yellow, membranes dull scarlet; shaded deeper 

 at edges of fin. Anal similar to dorsal, the bars broader and less numerous, 

 but two other than submarginal. Ventrals orange, fronts narrowly darkj 

 Pectorals hyaline apple green, base very dark purple, almost black. Throat 

 slightly bluish. 



(MeXas, black; x^tp, hand; with reference to the blackish base of 

 the pectoral fin.) 



HALICHOERES MARGINATUS Ruppell 



Halichocres marginatus RtJPPELL, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 16. 

 Mohila, Massaua, Red Sea. 



Julis marginatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 490 

 (copied). 



Platyglossus marginatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 

 109, pi. 41, fig. 3 (Java, Sumatra, Batu, Amboina). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 160 (Mauritius and Ceylon). — Klunzinger, 

 Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 545 (Koseir, Red Sea).— 

 GttNTHER, Cruise of Curacoa, Brenchley, 1873, p. 411 (Misol, Moluccas). — 

 Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 443 (Mauritius). — Day, 

 Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 398, p. 84, figs. 5-6 (Malay Archipelago, 

 Andamans). — Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 36 

 (Mysore). — Day, Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 405. — Boulenger, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889, p. 240 (Muscat). — Jordan and Seale, 

 Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 299, pi. 46, fig. 1 (Apia).— 

 GtJNTHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 271, pi. 143, fig. C 

 (Society Islands, Samoa). 



Julis annularis (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vol. 13, 1839, p. 482. Java. 



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