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Generally blackish, head with slightly brown tint. Iris and pre- 

 opercle spine with blue tinge. Large white blotch on side of back. 

 Upper edge of spinous dorsal narrowly bluish. Hind caudal edge 

 narrowly whitish to grayish with submarginal blackish band. Entire 

 lower anal edge broadly whitish, with narrow dividing bluish line. 

 Paired fins dusky brown, ventrals pale to whitish terminally, varia- 

 bly dark. 



East Indian region. The large whitish superior lateral blotch is 

 variable in size, extending over from .3 to 6 scales in width. 



7249. Candaraman Island. January 4, 1909. Length 91 mm. 



12G94. Gandra Island. September 20, 1909. 



4840, 22230. Little Santa Cruz Island. May 26, 1908. Length 89 to 105 mm. 



4830. Malanipa Island. September 8, 1909. Length 103 mm. 



4712 [1371]. Malapascua Island. March 16, 1909. Length 112 mm. Blue 



black. Lateral spot clear white. Dorsal spines and membranes black, not 



yellow as shown in Bleeker's plate; tip of soft dorsal purple. Anal edge lemon 



yellow on a bluish white stripe. Caudal tip white. Ventrals lemon yellow, 



darker at base than in front. 

 4861, 17135. Murcielagos Bay, Mindanao. August 21, 1909. Length 90 to 



100 mm. 

 3906. Opol, Mindanao. August 4, 1909. Length 83 mm. 

 4851, 4852, 22024. Panpan, Tapa Island. September 20, 1909. Length 52 to 



90 mm. 

 4741, 4742. Pilas Island. September 12, 1909. Length 82 to 112 mm. 

 4709. Port Galera, Mindoro. October 27, 1909. Length 96 mm. 

 722. Port Palapag. June 3, 1909. Length 70 mm. 

 15710. Sanguisiapo Island. February 24, 1908. Length 71 mm. 

 22768 to 22770. Sitanki Reef. September 24, 1909. Length 53 to 88 mm. 

 3921. Sitanki wharf. February 26, 1908. Length 107 mm. 

 3912. South Lagoon, Tumindao. February 26, 1908. Length 81 mm. 

 16021. Sulade Island. September 18, 1909. Length 87 mm. 

 19228. Tapiantana Island. September 13, 1909. Length 96 mm. 

 4774. Tumindao Island. February 26, 1908. Length 80 mm. 

 8673. Tutu Bay, Jolo Island, second anchorage. September 19, 1909. Length 



92 mm. 

 22769. Sitanki Reef. September 24, 1909. Length 88 mm. 

 7966. 16441, 21453 to 21455. Danawan Island and Si Amil Islands. September 



27, 1909. Length 56 to 92 mm. 

 3929, 4739. Makyan Island. November 29, 1909. Length 70 to 88 mm. 

 One e.xample. Powati Harbor, Makyan Island. November 28, 1909. Length 



90 mm. 

 472. Tomahu Island. December 12, 1909. Length 85 mm. 

 4838. Cape Kait, Libani Island, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length 104 mm. 

 21010. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length 87 mm. 



HOLACANTHUS NOX Bleeker 



Holacanthus nox Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 5, 1853, p. 338. 

 Amboina. — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 51 (copied). — 

 Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 9, 1877, p. 62, pi. (6) 368, fig. 3 

 (Amboina and Coram). — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, 1916, p. 

 178 (Barrier Reef). 



