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Color in alcohol. — Snout and chin pale 3-ellowish white, body pale 

 grayish brown; head and body with three black-bordered white 

 transverse bars as wide as or wider than diameter of eye, first on pos- 

 terior part of head running from nape across opercles just behind 

 eye, second from the 9th dorsal spine and third soft dorsal ray to 

 anus and origin of anal fm, and third, black-bordered on its anterior 

 margin only, across the posterior % of caudal peduncle; second bar 

 straight on its anterior margin, without forward projecting loop or 

 point; spiny dorsal dusky brown except for last 2 spines, which are 

 white; soft dorsal white on first 2 or 3 rays, rest of fin dusky brown; 

 caudal fin white basally and distaily, also on outer rays, rest of fin 

 dusky brown; anal dusky blackish; one of pelvic fins pale, the other 

 faintly dusky on tip; pectoral pale. 



Remarks. — This species, with three broad white bars, has the cen- 

 tral part of the caudal fin black and the outer edges white; the second 

 white bar is continuous on the distal part of the soft dorsal fin. 



We have examined (in USNM) 1 specimen each in lots from Mauri- 

 tius (USNM 61690), the Marshall Islands (USNM 141034), and the 

 Phihppines (USNM 147127); (in MCZ) 3 specimens from Zanzibar, 

 Africa, and also 1 from Apiang, Kingsmill Island (Marshalls), col- 

 lected by Andrew Garrett; and (in BM), bearing the name A. inter- 

 medius, 1 specimen each from the following numbers: BM 1852.11.4. 

 12, Molluccas; BM 1938.12.6.12, Mombassa; and BM 1862.2.25.1.9, 

 from Dr. Bleeker's collection. 



AMPHIPRION TRICINCTUS Sehultz and Welandcr 



Plate 79,E 



Amphiprion tricinclus Schultz and Welander in Sehultz, Proc. U. S. Nat. RIus., 



vol. 103, p. 195-196, pi. 9,H, 1953 (type locality, Bikini Atoll), 

 Amphiprion ephippium (non Bloch) var. chrysopterus (non Cuvier and Valen- 

 ciennes) GOnther, Journ. Mus. Godefifroy, vol. 15 (Fische der Sudsee, pt. 

 7), pp. 224-225, pi. 122, fig. C, 1881 (Kingsmill Island). 

 SPECIMENS STUDIED 

 Holotype USNM 152929, Bikini Atoll, Amen Island, lagoon, August 21, 1947, 

 Univ. Washington, Staff of Applied Fisheries Laboratory, standard length 75 mm. 



Description.— Dorssil fin rays X,17; anal 11,14; pectoral ii,17,i— 

 ii,16,ii; vertical scale rows from upper edge of gill opening to base of 

 caudal fin 54, with 5 scales between lateral line and base of first soft 

 dorsal ray, 20 between lateral line and anal origin; 36 pores in lateral 

 line; predorsal scales 19 or 20; gill rakers 5-1-1 + 13. 



Detailed measurements were made on the holotype and these data 

 are expressed in thousandths of the standard length, 75 mm. : Greatest 

 depth 560; length of head 272; snout 99; eye 95; preorbital width 35; 



