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o". Color on lower part of body not deep green nor blue as on back ; sev- 

 eral streaks radiating from eye. 



d'. Streaks radiating from eye greenish ; body brown above anteriorly, 

 posteriorly green ; sides salmon red ; head with brown and blue 

 markings ; dorsal orange, edged with blue and with blue mark- 

 ings ; caudal ochraceous, the outer rays blue and green, a sub- 

 terminal green bar heliotropinus. 



d^ Streaks radiating from eye red ; body greenish above over whole 

 length ; sides pink, becoming yellow below and grayish green on 

 belly ; head and snout with irregular red streaks, the upper lip 

 red ; dorsal red, with a blue margin and a row of blue spots at 

 or near base ; anal blue, with a rosy longitudinal band ; caudal 

 with outermost rays blue, the next two red, the inner rays 

 green with a terminal ochraceous bar xanthopleura. 



PSEUDOSCARUS VITRIOUNUS Bryan. 



This species was hitherto known only from a single example. 

 We secured a second in the market at Honolulu. After about a 

 month in formalin it shoAvs the following coloration : 



Dorsal-anterior part of body pale yellowish green, the anterior 

 portion of scales lighter, the posterior margin colorless ; this greenish 

 becomes more and more yellowish posteriorly till beneath the soft 

 dorsal the sides of the body are a golden broAvn, with only a very 

 faint greenish cast; caudal peduncle quite abruptly bright blue- 

 green; belly anteriorly similar in color to sides, but striped longi- 

 tudinally with blue-green, there being three such stripes running 

 from a point opposite origin of ventrals horizontally backward as 

 far as the anal on each side, the median line of belly also blue-green ; 

 back of the origin of anal these stripes merge into a generally green 

 area that covers belly and extends to the blue caudal peduncle; 

 breast green, without distinct markings; back of body also more or 

 less green throughout, nowhere yellow or brown like sides. Upper 

 part of head and anterior portion of lower jaw blue-green; four 

 yellowish stripes radiating from eye; opercle nwstly dark violet 

 brown, a blue scale over axil of pectoral, cheeks yellowish, snout and 

 lower lip gray. Dorsal bright blue-green, a single whitish band 

 along spinous part, on soft dorsal this splits into two, the two bands 

 connecting again along the membrane betAveen the last two rays; 

 anal similar, though with but one basal band; caudal bright blue, 

 more greenish toward center, spotted here and there Avith white; 

 pectorals bluish green, their tips white; ventrals dull greenish, the 

 first rays brighter. It seems likely that much of the area here 

 described as whitish was originally of some shade of red. 



PSEUDOSCARUS TROSCHELI (Bleeker). 



This species, recorded by Steindachner from Laysan, is reported 

 by Fowler from Honolulu. 



