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fuse as vertical waved lines, break into dots on upper part of breast and 

 abdominal region, become extremely minute and then disappear. From 

 shoulder around gill opening purplish, breaking into clouded area around 

 pectoral and forming large blotch below middle of pectoral. Another purplish 

 stripe, % width of eye, begins below eye, extends from front of eye to pro- 

 jected snout. Lips purple. Side of head with scattered dots same as bodj\ 

 Iris dark. Dorsals dark purplish olive, edged blue. Anal like soft dorsal, 

 marginal bands somewhat broader and with dash of purple at bases of mem- 

 branes. Caudal dark olive-green, with purplish shades; caudal peduncle at 

 base bright purple, edges of fin lobes and produced rays dull purple; yellowish- 

 green blotches under produced rays near outer angles of fin. Pectoral slat}', 

 with dashes of brilliant purple on rays. Ventral dark yellowish-green. 



16469. Teomabal Island. September 18, 1909. Length 168 mm. 



A735. Danawan Island. September 27, 1909. Length 243 mm. 



22858. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length 170 mm. 



22918. Kalono Point. December 14, 1909. Length 58 mm. Without trace of 

 hump on snout. Hind caudal edge narrowly white, within median caudal rays. 

 Dorsals dark green, line of blue spots along front half of base and few blue 

 spots on membrane especially anteriorly; irregular yellow-green mottlings on 

 terminal third; narrow margin dark blue. Anals like dorsals; line of blue 

 spots at base of membrane and margin narrowly blackish-blue. Caudal very 

 dark olive-green, produced tips black; white area immediately anterior to 

 bases of caudal filaments. Pectoral dusky purplish above, and bluish reflec- 

 tions below, border colorless. Ventral light reddish-brown, rays white basally. 

 Vent in dirty white region. 



A741, A742. Sipadan Island. September 28, 1909. Length 525 to 540 mm. 



A952. Sadaa Island. November 17, 1909. Length 420 mm. 



A1460. Kait Point, Libani Bay. Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length 446 mm. 



A904. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length 315 mm. 



A 1551. Nan Wan, Formosa. January 25, 1910. Length 230 mm. 



65721 U.S.N. M. Rangiroa. Albatross collection. Length 378 mm. to hind 

 caudal edge. 



NASO LITURATUS (Schneider) 



Acanthurus liluralus Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 216. No locality 

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

 247 (Zamboanga). — Fowler and Ball, Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 26, 1925 

 (1926), p. 19 (Johnston and Wake Islands). 



Harpurus liluralus (Forster) Schneider, Syst. Iclith. Bloch, 1801, p. 216 

 (name in synonymy). 



Naseus liluralus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 10, 1835, p. 282 (Tahiti, 

 New Ireland, Ulea, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, Mauritius). — Bleeker, Nat. 

 Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, p. (740) 763 (Macassar); vol. 8, 1855, 

 p. 306 (Batoe Island); vol. 13, 1857, p. 372 (Sangi Island); vol. 17, 1858-59, 

 p. 130 (Atapoepoe, Timor). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 

 1861, p. 353 (type, Aneiteum, Malay Archipelago, Red Sea). — Bleeker, 

 Nederland. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 1, 1863, p. 249 (Flores Island), p. 271 (Ata- 

 pupu, Timor). — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 213 (Australia). — 

 Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 58 (Zanzibar, Pemba Island). — 

 Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 513 (Koseir, Red 

 Sea). — GtJNTHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 4, 1875, p. 124, pi. 82 (Red 

 Sea, East Africa, Hawaii, Society Islands). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, 

 Fische, 1913, p. 320 (Karakaralong Island, Gisser, Timor). 



