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breast siaty lavender fading to olive. Side of head brownish, with numerous 

 rather regularly disposed paler spots about size of number 6 or 8 shot. Dorsal 

 alternately banded with ohve brown and slate, bars of about equal width and 

 somewhat anastomosing, slightly less in width than third of pupil; edge of fin 

 dark. Anal similar, bands much less distinct and edge bluish. Caudal with 

 distinct bands, quite dark, tip within fork very narrowly white. Pectoral 

 slaty, membranes hyaline near tips of lower rays, tip of upper half of fin sul- 

 phur yellow. Ventrals fade olive terminally. 



A1434, A1476. Kait Point, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909 Leneth 

 312 to 352 mm. ^ 



(A1434) with fine hues on body. Side of head with spots. Well-defined shoulder 

 blotch about three times long as wide. Dorsal brown, with about 9 slaty 

 bars equal to interspaces, margin not distinctly blue. Anal without distinct 

 bars, edge blue. Caudal with very narrow white edge in fork. Pectoral 

 bright yellow in upper half of tip. 



(A1476.) Shoulder blotch more or less pointed behind, shghtly outlined with pale 

 after fading. Dorsal stripes less distinct than A1434 and anal stripes like 

 those on dorsal. Caudal when faded more or less marked with pale purplish, 

 band at caudal base doubtless white in life, shows sulphur under green slate 

 general coloration. 



HEPATUS ATERRIMUS (Gunther) 



Acanthuriis aterrimus Gijnther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871, p. 660. 

 Savay, Samoan Islands; Journ. Mus Godeflfroy, vol. 4, 1875 d 114 nl' 

 77, fig. B (type). ' - P- , I • 



A small species with depth about 1%, dark brown, with chin bar, 

 opercle edge and hind caudal edge white. Giinther's example was' 

 89 mm. long. 



HEPATUS LEUCOSTERNON (Bennett) 



Acanthurus leucosternon Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. London, 1832, p, 

 183. Ceylon.— Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 12, 1856, 

 p. (230) 273 (Batu Island).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3,' 

 1861, p. 340 (type).— Valenciennes, R^gne Animal, Cuvier, 111., Poiss' 

 1839, pi. 71, fig. 1 (Moluccas). 



Acanthurus delisiani Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 10, 1835, p. 193, 

 Mauritius.— Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genoot. (Nal. Ichth. 'Bengkl)* vol* 

 25, 1853, p. 48. 



Acanthurus delissianus Guerin, Icouogr. Poiss., vol. 3, 1844, p. 22 (Mauritius). 



Acanthurus delisianus Guerin, Iconogr. Poiss., vol. 3, 1844, pi. 35, fio-. 2. 



Acanthurus celebicus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol.' 3,^^1852, 

 p. (740) 761. Macassar; vol. 10, 1856, p. 360 (Ternate).— Gunther,' 

 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 339 (copied).— Kner, Reise Novara,' 

 Fisclie, 1865, p. 211 (Madras).— GtJNTHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 

 4, 1875, p. 115, pi. 73, fig. B (Celebes, Ternate, Solomon Islands, Tahiti).— 

 Herre, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 34, No. 4, Dec. 1927, p. 417, pi. 13 

 fig. 1 (Calapan). ' ' 



Hepatus celebicus Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 26, 1906 (1907) 

 p. 30 (Manila). — Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 26, 1906 

 (1907), p. 97 (Bulan).— Seale and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus vol 33 

 1907, p. 247 (Zamboanga). ' 



Acanthurus fuscus Steindachner, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 2, 1861, 

 p. 176, fig. 2. Amboina.— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3 1861* 

 p. 339 (copied). ' 



