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413 and [1578]. Port Palapag, near northern Samar. June 3, 1909. Length 102 

 to 107 mm. Two examples. Differs from Bleeker's figure in dark portions 

 entirely black. Front portion of body dusky cadmium above, sulphur on belly. 

 Margin adjacent to black posterior portion sulphur yellow. Orange spot 

 behind eye above angle of gill opening. Opercle flap orange and dash of same 

 across chin and lower eye edge orange. Upper edge of soft dorsal very nar- 

 rowly orange; dorsal and anal otherwise black. Caudal cadmium, with sul- 

 phur basal line. Paired fins pale cadmium. 



3618. Refugio, Pasacao, Luzon. March 9, 1909. Length 95 mm. 



1291, 22772. Sitanki Reef. September 24, 1909. Length 80 to 92 mm. 



7965. Danawan and Si Amil Islands. September 27, 1908. Length 87 mm. 



4786. Labuan Blanda Island. December 14, 1909. Length 110 mm. 



3930. Makyan Island. November 29, 1909. Length 81 mm. 



457. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length 101 mm. 



[2132]. Tomahu Island. December 11, 1909. Length 33 mm. 



17984. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length 102 mm. 



47827, 47893 U.S.N. M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length 110 mm. 

 Two examples. 



52301 U.S.N. M. Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 60 to 132 nun. Four 

 examples. 



56995 U.S.N.M. Pago Pago. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 96 to 144 mm. 

 Eleven examples. 



HOLACANTHUS TIBICEN Cuvier 



Holacanthus tibicen Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 173. No 

 locality (Holland Collection). — Gtjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 

 1860, p. 46 (copied). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, 1877, 

 p. 62, pi. (8) 370, fig. 4 (Celebes, Flores, Solor, Ternate, Amboina, 

 Ceram). — Waite, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 3, 1900, p. 203 (Lord Howe 

 Island). — Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 1902, p. 

 547 (Nafa, Riu Kiu).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 312 

 (Banda). — Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 34, No. 1, 

 September 1927, p. 90, pi. 20, fig. 1 (Tubigan, Jolo, Sibutu, Sitanki). 



Holacanthus leucopleura Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 5, 

 1853, p. 79. Lawajong, Solor. — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 

 1860, p. 46 (Amboina); Cruise of Cura?oa, Brenchley, 1873, p. 410 (Misol, 

 Moluccas). 



Depth l^i to IJ/g; head 2% to 33^, width 1% to 2. Snout 3 to 

 33^ in head ; eye 3 to 33^, 1 to 1 3^ in snout, equals interorbital or slightly 

 greater in young; maxillary reaches nostrils, to eye in young, 3}/^ to 

 3^ in head; interorbital 33^ to 3%, broadly convex; preopercie 

 spine along upper edge 23^ to 4^. Gill rakers 5+11, robust, lance- 

 olate, longest }i of gill filaments which 1% in eye. 



Scales 38 to 40 between gill opening and caudal base; 7 scales 

 above lateral line, 20 or 21 scales below. Scales with 6 to 9 basal 

 radiating striae; apical denticles 15 to 19, each with long slender 

 rootlet; circuli fine. 



D. XIV, 16, I or 17, i, last spine \% to 1% in head, eighth ray 1 

 to lyi; A. Ill, 16, I or 17, i, third spine 1^ to 1%, eighth ray 13^ 

 to 13^; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 to 23^; caudal rounded 

 convexly behind, 1 to 13^; pectoral 1 to 13^; ventral 33^ to 33^ in 

 combined head and bodv. 



