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caudal fin rays produced ; mouth oblique ; teeth in one row on upper 

 and lower jaws with a pair of canines near symphysis of each jaw. 



Color in alcohol : Wliite below midaxis on body, darker above ; a 

 black band from snout through eye, width of eye, along side of body, 

 and ending at base of rays of caudal fin, the lower edge of this band 

 bemg along the midaxis of body; upper edge of black line diffuse, 

 grading into pale dusky to light brownish above ; from between eyes 

 a second black band extends along middorsal line and each side along 

 base of dorsal fin, fading out posteriorly under soft dorsal; spinous 

 dorsal blackish, the color continuing as a black band along basal 

 three-fourths of soft dorsal, the marginal fourth of the fin white; 

 pectorals and pelvics pale, a black spot, triangular in shape, at upper 

 base of pectoral, anal fin white, caudal fin pale; dorsal and ventral 

 edges white, with dark pigment on the next two or three submarginal 

 rays, middle rays of caudal white; inner side of operculum blackish. 



Color in life (from a color crayon sketch by author) : Upper sides 

 between black bands olive; lower side of head silvery, lower sides 

 and belly yellowish to orange; a silvery band just below the lateral 

 black band extends from head to tip of caudal fin, grading into the 

 yellow-orange ventrally; anal fin rose-colored; upper and lower rays 

 of caudal fin rose-colored. 



Remarks. — This new species differs from all other labrids in its 

 coloration but is most nearly like Thalassoma amblycephalis^ which 

 is similarly colored in regard to the black band on the side and the 

 one on and along the base of the dorsal fins ; the white marginal band 

 on the soft dorsal of T. amhlycephalis is narrower than on T. mamae^ 

 and the dorsal half of the body is more uniform blackish. In 

 T. mamae there is no trace of a pale streak from below eye across 

 cheek, nor one from lower edge of eye across opercle to upper edge of 

 pectoral base, and the tips of the pectorals are not heavily pigmented. 



Named for my young daughter, Mama, now 10 years old. 



THALASSOMA SCHWANENFELDII (Bleeker) 



Jnlis (Julis) schwanenfeldii Bleekee, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., vol. 4, p. 288, 

 1853. 



Streets 20 records Julius schwanenfeldii- Bleeker (U.S.N.M. No. 

 15133) and describes the specimen as given in my key. This descrip- 

 tion fits plate 33, figure 7, in Bleeker's Atlas. Fowler ^^ identified this 

 same specimen that Steinberger collected as Halichoeres kawarin but 

 still retains Streets' identification under T. schwanenfeldii on p. 351. 

 The specimen in the meantime dried up, and since all that is left are 



20 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 7, p. 99, 1877. 

 *i Fishes of Oceania, p. 343, 1928. 



