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2a. Caudal fin plain dusky, except in smallest specimens there occur 2 narrow 

 black cross bars, remainder of fin pale or white; some of the scales on 

 the middle of the sides have black dots; greatest depth about 2.4 to 



2.5 in standard length W. ocellata Schultz and Marshall 



26. Caudal fin with a few black spots on middle rays at about three-fourths 

 their length distally; greatest depth 2.4 to 3.0. 

 3a. Greatest width of peduncular white bar 2.3 to 3.4 in least depth of caudal 

 peduncle; no white bar in front of ocellate spot in soft dorsal and in 

 front of spot in soft anal fins; plate 93, C. 



W. philippina philippina Fowler 

 36. Greatest width of peduncular white bar 3.8 to 4.7 in least depth of caudal 

 peduncle; white bar present in front of ocellate spot in soft dorsal 

 and in front of spot in soft anal fins. 



W. philippina bifasciata Schultz and Marshall 

 16. Greatest width of white bar on caudal peduncle between rear of bases of soft 

 dorsal and of soft anal fins contained about 6 to 10 times in least depth of 

 caudal peduncle; greatest depth about 2.8 to 2.9. 

 4a. A white bar from behind ocellate spot on soft dorsal passes in front of ocel- 

 late spot in soft anal fin; a white bar from bases of third and fourth 

 dorsal spines passes behind pectoral base, thence to just behind pelvic 

 base; posterior third of caudal fin with a black band, but rear margin 

 of caudal fin is edged with white; the white bar on caudal peduncle oc- 

 curs as a saddle ventrally and does not extend on dorsal part of caudal 



peduncle; plate 93, D W. albofasciata Schultz and Marshall 



46. No white bar passing between ocellate spot in soft dorsal and that in soft 

 anal; a narrow white bar extends from in front of ocellate spot in soft 

 dorsal to in front of that in soft anal fin; caudal fin plain dusky, edged 

 with white distally; a white bar between orbits in the interorbital 

 space; plate 93, E W. triocellata Schultz and Marshall 



Table 96. — Counts recorded for species of Wetmorella. 



WETMORELLA OCELLATA Schnltz and Marshall 



Plate 93, A, B 



Wetmorella ocellata Schultz and Marshall, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 103, 

 p. 444, pi. 12,D,E, (type locality, Rongelap and Bikini Atolls, Marshall 

 Islands). 



