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color; plumbeous bars 3. Caudal dusky Indian purple. Pectoral yellowish- 

 olive, shades bright lemon yellow on terminal third, extreme edge hyaline. 

 Ventral membranes yellowish, rays with purplish shades. 



A653. Simaluc Sibi Sibi Island. September 23, 1909. Length 348 mm. 



A1404, A1405. Tampotana Island. December 21, 1909. Length 245 to 265 mm. 



A573. Tutu Bay, southern Jolo. September 19, 1909. Length 378 mm. 



7171. West coast of Palaui Island. November 18, 1908. Length 392 mm. Very 

 dark olive, paler below, with smoky purplish shades. Brassj' before eye, on 

 maxillary and terminal third of pectoral. In fading each scale apparently with 

 bronze mark. Somewhat obscure stripes, below slaty and undulating. Dorsal 

 very dark brownish orange, becomes brassy on fading, more or less crossed by 

 4 or 5 bars nearly diameter of pupil. Anal like dorsal. Caudal fins purplish, 

 without bars. Paired fins with brassy shades. 



A1475. Cape Kait, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length 525 mm. 

 Slaty brown, with darker lines, upon fading side of head and body with scat- 

 tered bluish spots little larger than nostril. Yellow wash through eye bright, 

 more or less yellow downward on frontal snout ridge and paler wash over side 

 of head back to pectoral. Dorsal and anal stripes pale slaty. Caudal spine 

 with yellowish socket. Pectoral bright yeUow. 



8859, 8860. Daet Point. June 15, 1909. Length 370 to 395 mm. 



A834, A854. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length 215 to 350 mm. 



A888, A886. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length 300 to 508 

 mm. Slaty stripes on lavender olive ground color. Side of head striped and 

 spotted yellowish-olive through eye. No white on tail. Dorsal margin olive, 

 narrowly black and blue? on edge, with 4 slaty stripes. Pectoral tip j^ellow. 



5104. Sandakan Bay, Borneo. March 2, 1908. Length 303 mm. 



A1550, A1553. Nan Wan, Formosa. January 25, 1910. Length 322 to 333 mm. 

 HEPATUS LINEOLATUS (Vatenciennes) 



Acanthurus Uncolatus Valenciennes, Hist, Nat. Poiss., vol. 10, 1835, p. 207. 

 Sea of the Indies. — Bleeker Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 6, 1854, p. 

 (90) 103 (Banda, Neira); Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N6erland., vol. 2, No. 7, 1857, 

 p. 5 (Amboina).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 336 

 (copied); Journ. Mus. GodeflFroy, vol. 4, 1875, p. 112, pi. 73, fig. A (Rai- 

 atea. Society Islands). — Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 39, 1914, 

 p. 227 (Diego Suarez, Madagascar). 



Hepatus Uncolatus Fowler, Bisiiop Mus. Bull., No. 22, 1925, p. 28 (Honolulu), 

 p. 34 (Samoa).— Fowler and Ball, Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 26, 1925 (1926), 

 p. 19 (Laysan, French Frigate Shoals, Johnston Island). 



Teuihis atrimentatus Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. 



22, 1902 (1903), p. 198. Honolulu. 



Hepatus atramentatus Fowler and Ball, Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 26, 1925 



(1926), p. 19 (Laysan). 

 Acanthurus atramentatus Herre, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 34, No. 4, Dec, 



1927, p. 422, pi. 3, fig. 1 (Sitankai, Puerto Galera, Sialat Point). 

 Teuthis matoides (part) Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (1903), 



p. 478 (Honolulu). — Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 



23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 387 (Honolulu). 



Hepatus nigricans (part) Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 25, 1905 



(1906), p. 351 (Apia). 

 Hepatus elongatus (part) Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 25, 1905 



(1906), p. 352 (Apia). 

 Teuthis elongatus Kendall and Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 



vol. 26, No. 7, 1911, p. 308 (Truk).— Barnard, Ann South Afric. Mus., 



vol. 21, pt. 2, Oct. 1927, p. 778 (Natal). 



