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brane, fourth from fifth, fifth from seventh, sixth from ninth, seventh from 

 tenth, eighth from behind last dorsal spine crosses base of caudal peduncle and 

 extends across anal diagonally forward; short brown stripe through middle of 

 soft dorsal and black blotch in brown area near middle margin. Bars on anal 

 mostly orange. Caudal with row of small basal spots, rays more or less spotted 

 with dusky and 2 other bars cross caudal peduncle. Pectoral hyaline. Ven- 

 trals cadmium yellow, tips white. 



21525. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length 40 mm. 



3928. Uki, Bouro Island, Dutch East Indies. December 9, 1909. Length 



82 mm. 



4727. Buka Buka Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. November 20, 1909. Length 



83 mm. 



7979. Dodepo and Pasejogo Islands, Celebes. November 16, 1909. Length 

 71 mm. 



13630. Una Una Road, Binang Unang Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. Novem- 

 ber 18, 1909. Length 63 mm. 



HOLACANTHUS BISPINOSUS GUnther 



Holacanthus bispinosus GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 48 

 (on Bleeker); p. 516 (Aneiteum, New Hebrides, and Amboyna); 

 Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, p. 51, pi. 56, fig C 

 (Hawaii and Tahiti, also above examples). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. 

 lud. Neerland., vol. 9, 1877, p. 60, pi. (6) 368, fig. 1 (Amboyna).— Stein- 

 dachner, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., vol. 25, 1900, p. 421 (Ternate). — 

 Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 

 (1905), p. 378, pi. 56 (from Pago Pago example, not description). — Jor- 

 dan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 384 (2 Pago 

 Pago examples). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 311. 

 Banda). 



Holacanthus diacanthus (not Boddaert) Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. 

 Neerland., vol. 2, No. 7, 1857, p. (5) 57 (Amboyna). 



Centropyge tutuilae Jordan and Jordan, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, No. 

 1, 1922, p. 62, pi. 3, fig. 2. Tutuila, Samoa. 



Depth 13^ to \%; head 33/^ to 3%, width 13^ to 1%. Snout Sifeto 

 33^5 in head; eye 2]/^ to 3, greater than snout, 1 to 1 3^ in interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches opposite eye, 33^ to 3% in head; interorbital 2% 

 to 3I/5, broadly convex; preopercle spine along upper edge 2% to 4; 

 anterior preopercle spine below well advanced in young and close 

 before large spine with age; preopercle serrae small in young, become 

 variably larger with age. Gill rakers 5 + 16, well compressed, elon- 

 gately triangular, lanceolate, }/2 of gill filaments which 13^ in eye. 



Scales 36 to 40 counted between gill opening and caudal base; 6 or 

 7 scales above lateral line, 17 or 18 below. Scales with 5 to 9 basal 

 striae, marginal and edge scalloped; apical denticles 20 to 30, each 

 with single long rootlet; circuli very fine. 



D. XIII or XIV, 15, 1 to 17, i, last spine 13^^ to 1% in head, tenth 

 ray 13^ to 13^; A. Ill, 16, i or 17, i, third spine 13^ to \%, sixth ray 

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

 convexly behind, 1 to 13^; pectoral 3 to 3% in combined head and 

 body; ventral 2 2^ to 33^. 

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