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Depth 2}4 to 21^; head S}4 to 33^, width 2 to 2%. Snout 2J4 

 3/^; eye 5 to 5%, 13<C to 1^^ in snout, 13^ to 1% in interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches ^i to eye, 4^^ to 4% in head; interorbital 3 4/^ to 4, 

 convex. Gill rakers 6 + 11, lanceolate, short. 



Scales in lateral line 21 to 23, 5 + 1 ; 5 or 6 scales above lateral line, 

 10 or 11 below, 9 or 10 predorsal. Scales with 33 to 47 basal radiating 

 striae, 26 to 30 apical; circuli fine. 



D. IX, 14, I, ninth spine 2}/^ to 2% in head, first ray Ij^ to 1J4', 

 A. Ill, 12, I, third spine 4 to 43^, first ray 2}^^ to 23^; caudal 13^ to 

 13^, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 1^ to Ij^; 

 pectoral 13^ to 13^; ventral 1 to 13^. 



Deep brown generally, each scale with deep blue vertical line or bar 

 and generally scale darker basally. Head with many slightly inclined 

 deep lines or bands, variably broken or incomplete. Iris deep brown. 

 Edges of vertical fins all buff, broader on caudal which also with basal 

 brown crescent. Otherwise vertical fins deep neutral dusky, with 

 numerous deep blue oblique bands on dorsals and anals and as vertical 

 bands in dark region of caudal. Outer hind edges of caudal deeper 

 brown than narrow submarginal line. Paired fins deep neutral 

 brown, pectorals darker basally. 



Red Sea, Mauritius, Ceylon, East Indies, Polynesia. 



16710. Butauanan Island. June 12, 1909. Length, 157 mm. [1644.] Dark 

 green, scales with vertical bars of indigo and dull brick red. Head and front 

 of body with indigo stripes breaking into spots behind over pectoral. Dorsal 

 { edge ohve yellow, sky blue and black; body of fin body color, with obhque bar 

 of emerald and black or indigo lines at base; outer half with small round dots 

 same color. Anal similar but bars brick and larger fusing on terminal half and 

 encircling red dots of body color. Caudal olive yellow, sky blue, black at tip, 

 body indigo and brick green blotch at base. Pectoral hyaline black, yellow 

 spot at upper base. Ventral dull olive, black stripe in front. 



8473. Santo Domingo de Basoo, Batan Island. November 7, 1908. Length, 128 

 mm. 



11244. Verde del Sur Island. April 6, 1909. Length, 121 mm. 



52209 U.S.N.M. Apia. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 128 mm, 



HALICHOERES VROUCKn (Bleeker) 



Julis (Halichoeres) vroUckii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 8, 1855, 



p. 323. Batu Archipelago. 

 Platyglossus vrolickii Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 110, 



pi. 42, fig. 2 (Bawean, Batu, Nias, Banka). 

 Platyglossus vrolickii Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1862, p. 159 



(East Indies). 

 Platyglossus ubayensis Cartier, Verh. Phys. Med. Ges. Wiirzburg, vol. 5, 



1873, p. 104. Ubay, Bohol.— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 



553 (Ubay, Bohol). 



Depth 43^; head 4>^; D. IX, 12; A. Ill, 12; scales in lateral line 

 28; caudal rounded; first ventral ray produced. 



Head yellow, with reddish violet bands edged darker; 1 from snout 

 to eye, second curved from below eye to subopercle, 2 parallel behind 



