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head, usually brownish streaks are as wide or wider than whitish 

 ones; black spot basally between dorsal spines I and II; an ocellate 

 black spot in basal half of soft dorsal between rays 1 to 4, often con- 

 fined to rays 2 and 3 ; a blackish ocellate spot on caudal fin base about 

 halfway between lateral line and the dorsal edge; a short darkish 

 bar just behind the eye; soft dorsal and anal fins with alternating 

 dusky and whitish streaks; a dark spot at dorsal edge of pectoral fin 

 base and a small dark spot in front of eye on side of snout variably 

 present or absent; paired fins and caudal fin plain pale or whitish. 



HALICHOERES KALLOCHROMA (Sleeker) 



Plate 104,D 



Julis (Halichoeres) kallochroma Bleekbr, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. -Indie, vol, 4, 



p. 289, 1858 (type locality, Priaman, Sumatra). 

 Platyglossus kallochroma Bleeker, Atlas ichthyologique . . ., vol. 1, p. 108, 



pi. 42, fig. 4, 1862 (Sumatra and Nias). 

 Platyglossus flos-corallis Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish. vol. 25 (1905), 



p. 299, pi. 46, fig. 2, 1906 (holotype USNM 51744, Pago Pago, Samoa). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Eniwetok Atoll: Eniwetok Island, July 27, 1948, Univ. Washington, 1 speci- 

 men, 66 mm. 



Likiep Atoll: Likiep Island, August 22, 1949, U. Washington, 1 specimen, 

 60 mm. 



Description. — Certain counts are recorded in table 105. 



Head 3.0 to 3.2; greatest depth 3.2 to 3.3; longest pectoral ray 5.5 

 to 5.6; snout tip to anus 1.7, to dorsal origin 2.7 to 3.0; all in standard 

 length. Snout 2.8 to 3.0, eye 4.5 to 4.8; postorbital length of head 

 2.0 to 2.1 ; interorbital space 4.2 to 4.3; longest pectoral ray 1.6 to 1.7; 

 least depth of body 2.1; all in length of head. Distance between 

 anterior and posterior nasal openings 5 to 6 in snout. Eye 1.0 to 1.2 

 in interorbital space. 



Dorsal profile of head forming an angle of 60 to 65 degrees with 

 ventral contour of head; pectoral fin reaches to opposite eighth or 

 ninth lateral line pore; pelvics with outer rays greatly elongated, 

 reaching nearly to or to anus; distal margin of caudal fin rounded. 



Color in alcohol. — Background coloration light tan or whitish; about 

 10 to 12 alternating whitish and brownish streaks on body, some of 

 these continued on head; the brown streaks a little wider than the 

 white one; dorsal fin without any black spots, or ocellate spots; base 

 of caudal fin with or without blackish spot, when present this spot 

 occurs about halfway between lateral line and dorsal edge of caudal 

 fin base; dorsal and anal fins with alternating dusky and light streaks; 

 dorsal basal edge of pectoral fin with a black spot; outer or elongated 

 rays of pelvics dusky; distal third of caudal fin blackish with distal 

 edge whitish, the dark portion with rounded lighter areas; in both of 



