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D. VII, I, 10, i, or i, 11, i, third spine 3}/£ to 3% in total head 

 length, first branched ray 2}4 to 2%; A. Ill, i, 7, i, third spine 4% 

 to 534, first branched ray 2% to 3%; caudal \% to \%, truncate; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 2%; pectoral \% to 2}/%\ ven- 

 tral 2Xo to 2M- 



Terra-cotta color or brown, slightly paler below. Head, body, and 

 fins marked with small blue spots, less than pupil and all ocellated 

 with deeper brown rings; spots much more numerous with age. Iris 

 brown. Fins brown like body, only spots much smaller. Hind 

 caudal edge narrowly whitish. Pectoral pale brownish and only few 

 small spots basally. Ventral darker than pectoral. 



East Indies and Philippines. 



Diagnosis. — Apparently a valid species which we distinguish chiefly 

 by its truncate caudal fin. The lower preopercular spines are rela- 

 tively weak and the opercular spines more or less imbedded, often 

 inconspicuous. The head, body, and fins are ornamented with large 

 blue, black-edged spots. Readily known by its truncate caudal fin. 



Type— Cat. No. 89984, U.S.N.M. 



16004. Alimango Bay, Burias Island. March 5, 1909. Length 85 mm. 



8918. Atulayan Island, Lagonoy Gulf, east coast Luzon. June 17, 1909. Length 



350 mm. (Type No. 89984, U.S.N.M.) 

 12706. Atulayan Bay, Luzon. June 18, 1909. Length 137 mm. 

 7532, 7539. Endeavor Strait, Malampaya Sound, Palawan Island. December 



23, 1908. Length 287-314 mm. 

 9107. Gigoso Point, Samar Island. July 28, 1909. Length 323 mm. 

 7254. Port Matalvi, Luzon. November 23, 1908. Length 518 mm. 

 A549. Sulade Island, vicinity Jolo. September 17, 1909. Length 425 mm. 

 A511. Tapiantana Island, south of Zamboanga. September 13, 1909. Length 



370 mm. 

 A681. Bumbum Island, vicinity of Darvel Bay, Borneo. September 25, 1909. 



Length 520 mm. 

 A696. Si Amil Island, vicinity of Darvel Bay, Borneo. September 26, 1909. 



Length 288 mm. 

 A830, A844. Talisse Island, north of Celebes. November 9, 1909. Length 262 



to 365 mm. 

 A1130. Kayoa Island. November 29, 1909. Length 475 mm. 



PLECTROPOMUS MACULATUS (Bloch) 



Bodianus maculatus Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, vol. 4, 1790, p. 48, pi. 

 228. Japan (likely Mauritius?). — Walbaum, ArtediPisc, vol. 3, 1792, p. 

 671 (on Bloch). — Forster, Fauna Indica,1795, p. 16. — Schneider, Syst. 

 Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 331 (Japan). — Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 

 1802, pp. 280, 293 (Japan). 



Plectropoma maculatum Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 393 

 (Mauritius). — Ruppell, Atlas Reise nordl. Afrika, Fische, 1828, p. 110 

 (Mohila).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 156 (Red 

 Sea). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 12 (Zanzibar and 

 Seychelles). — Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 20, 18G7, p. 57 

 (Cape York, Queensland). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 

 20, 1870, p. 689 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 



