FAMILY LABRIDAE — SCHITLTZ 211 



on each side of lower jaw; none of anterior teeth notably enlarged; 

 pectoral reaches to opposite of about Uth lateral line scale; pelvics 

 reach % the way to anus; caudal fin rounded. 



Color in alcohol. — Dorsal half of body light brown, ventral half 

 paler, milky white anteriorly, 5 or 6 silvery streaks separated by 

 brownish streaks behind head and below base of pectoral fin in lower 

 part of body, sometunes each scale anteriorly marked with a single 

 dark brown dot; streak, from tip of snout just below eye and ending 

 at dorsal base of pectoral fin is dark edged dorsally. Sometimes 3 

 fine white lines forward from eye and one behind eye at its upper 

 edge, along with other reticulated fine white lines on side of head. 

 Specimens 12 to 30 mm. in standard length have a broad whitish 

 streak from dorsal half of eye posteriorly to dorsal edge of caudal 

 peduncle; at rear bases of soft dorsal and soft anal occurs an ocellate 

 black spot; at base of caudal fin and just above lateral line pores 

 a dark spot about size of pupil, this may occur in specimens as large as 

 50 mm., but is minute and usually indistinct or absent on those about 

 12 mm. long. 



On the adult male (Bleeker's "renardi") the paired white streaks 

 are as follows: (1) The dorsalmost white streak begins at the nape on 

 each side of middorsal line and continues along each side of base of 

 dorsal fin, ending at dorsal edge of caudal peduncle just at or behind 

 last ray; a streak (2) in front of eye on middle of snout at upper level 

 of pupil, begins again at rear of eye at level of upper edge of pupil and 

 extends across opercle just below upper edge of gill opening, with a 

 very short branch extending ventrally from a point close to rear edge 

 of opercle, behind the ventral branch a dark spot (below this streak 

 and behind eye, extending to white streak (3), is a blackish area), 

 streak (2) then continumg behmd head on a slightly slanting course to 

 midbase of caudal fin and ending on caudal fin at rear of scaled area; 

 a streak (3) begins at middle front edge of preorbital, passes along 

 ventral edge of eye and across opercle to dorsal edge of pectoral fin 

 base, thence a very short distance to axil of pectoral, usually ending 

 about opposite rear edge of pectoral fin base; a streak (4) begins on 

 middle of cleithrum, then curves just under pectoral fin base and 

 continues posteriorly, endmg about opposite anus or opposite about 

 the nth to 13th lateral line scale. Background coloration brownish 

 dorsally, paler ventrally, underside of head milky white; a small 

 brownish dot or spot may occur at base of caudal fin just above lateral 

 line; and there are traces of dusky spots at bases of last rays of dorsal 

 fin and of anal fin. 



Ecology. — This species was very rare in the intertidal zone of the 

 northern Marshall Islands, but was taken twice in water 18 to 20 feet 



