268 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



East Indies, Guam, Society Islands. Our examples agree in most 

 every way with Bleeker's figure of the young. 



1 example, Batan Island. July 22, 1909. Length, 43 nam. 



1 example, Caracaran Bay, Batan Island. June 8, 1909. Length, 95 mm. 

 Body verdigris, alternated by reddish brown stripes not occupying any special 

 relation to scale rows; median dorsal stripe green, then nine brownish stripes; 

 brown on back broken by four saddles of bright green, first under last dorsal 

 spine, second under fifth and sixth rays, third under ninth and tenth and fourth 

 in axil; additional double spot on posterior portion of peduncle duplicated 

 below; browns fuse posteriorly and become slaty, obliterating green largely 

 except median lateral stripe which extends from caudal base to third saddle 

 noted above, which scarcely equals eye diameter; continuation of green turns 

 blue on head; browns become brighter; in stripe through pectoral base scarlet on 

 opercle, becoming duller again across cheek; tip of opercle dusky vermilion; 

 opercle otherwise lemon yellow. Dorsal blue at tip, green at base; red brown 

 bar equal to pupil in diameter passes through basal half, limited each side by 

 narrow blue line; central bar of equal width of yellowish green or emerald; 

 submarginal bar of three distinct parts, outer two red brown, central blue; 

 browns in all bars darker along edges; extreme caudal tip whitish blue, body 

 of fin pale blue crossed by two oblique bars through lobes and two stripes 

 through center of fin; fuse into a large black blotch on central submargin. 

 Anal similar to dorsal. Ventrals green, dusky line through extended rays. 

 Pectorals dusky hyaline, base and broad axillary blotch of bright yellow; small 

 black blotch in upper edge of base. 



3 examples, Sablayan, Mindoro. December 13, 1909. Length, 36 to 44 mm. 



52221 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 28 to 101 mm. 

 7 examples. 



71694 U.S.N.M. Nafa, Okinawa. Albatross collection. Length, 14 to 66 mm. 

 18 examples. 



31192 to 31195 A.N.S.P. Apia. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 30 to 63 mm. 



51103 to 51105 A.N.S.P. Pago Pago. Capt. C. F. SUvester. 



HALICHOERES HOEVENII (Bleeker) 



JuUs (Halichoeres) hoevenii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned, Indie, vol. 2, 1851, 

 p. 250. Neira, Banda. 



Platyglossus hoevenii Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 111,, 

 pi. 42, fig. 3 (Java, Bawean, Sumatra, Nias, Banka, Solo, Ternate, Buru, 

 Amboina, Haruko, Coram, Goram, Banda). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 

 vol. 4, 1862, p. 153 (East Indies); Journ. Mus. GodefTroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 

 268 (East Indies, Pelew Islands, Samoa, Mortlock). — Weber, Abhandl. Sencken- 

 . berg. Nat. Ges., vol. 34 (1), 1911, p. 8 (Kei Island); Siboga Exp., vol. 57, 

 Fische, 1913, p. 375 (Elat). 



Depth 3M to 3^; head 2j^ to 3^, width 2}i to 2^. Snout 3 

 to 3^; eye 4 to 4^, 1}4 to IJ^ in snout, 1 to l}4 in interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches ^ to eye, 4 to 5 in head; interorbital 3^ to 5, 

 convex. Gill rakers 5 + 7, lanceolate, short, flexible. 



Scales in lateral line 21 or 22, 5 4-2; 3 scales above lateral line, 9 

 below, 12 predorsal. Scales with 26 to 28 basal radiating striae, 

 apical 21 to 28; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 12, I, nmth spine 2% to 2^-i in head, first ray 23^; A. 

 Ill, 11, 1 or 12, I, third spine 4 to 45^, first ray 2% to Z%; caudal 1}4 



