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close-set and parallel and behind longitudinal blue lines extend on 

 caudal peduncle. Iris brownish. Fins all brownish, spinous fins 

 with brown blotches. 



East Indies, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia. Very closely re- 

 lated to Siganus virgatus and only distinguished by the increased 

 vertical blue lines on the flanks. 



A1128. Makyan Island. November 29, 1909. Two examples. Length 192 to 

 213 mm. 



A1106. Makyan Island. November 28, 1909. Length 255 mm. 



A853. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length 248 mm. 



A1165. Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. Length 195 mm. 



A1059. Tidore Island, Dutch East Indies. November 24, 1909. Length 228 

 mm. Brown ocular and shoulder bands. Ground color yellow, with blue 

 stripes, vertical stripes continuous from gill opening to below middle of soft 

 dorsal, slightly vermiculated below dorsal. Horizontal lines only on caudal 

 peduncle and extreme posterior bod^^ Lower surface of body from level of 

 middle of pectoral to axil of anal silvery white. Base of pectoral to throat 

 with 3 or 4 orange and slaty stripes. Forehead and snout with cross bars of 

 yellow and blue and also striped portion of side of head. Spinous dorsal 

 olivaceous or orange, bright yellow on soft dorsal. Caudal yellow. Anal 

 pale hyaline orange. Pectoral dusky. Ventral colorless. 



30572 U.S.N. M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length 203 mm. 



SIGANUS PUELLUS (Schlegel) 



Amphacanthus puellus Schlegel, Bijdr. Dierk., vol. 1, 1852, p. 39, fig. 2. 

 East Indies. — Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N^erland., vol. 2, No. 7, 1857 

 p. 5 (Amboina); vol. 3, No. 4, 1857-58, p. 3 (Macassar). — Weber, Siboga 

 Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 329 (Gisser). 



Teuthis puella Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 323 

 (copied). — Bleeker, Nederland. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 1, 1863, p. 249 

 (Flores); Verslag. en Mededeel. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 16, 1864, 

 p. 368 (Aru Islands, Moluccas). — GtJNTHER, Journ, Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 

 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, p. 91 (Apamana; Pelew Islands). 



Amphacanthus cyanotaenia Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 4, 



1853, p. 606. Ternate, Amboina; vol. 5, 1853, p. 319 (Amboina); vol. 6, 



1854, p. 90 (Banda, Neira); vol. 8, 1855, p. 296 (Ternate); vol. 9, 1855, 

 p. 106 (Sahu, Halmaheira); Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N^erland., vol. 1, No, 3, 

 1856, p. 8 (Macassar). 



Amphacanthus ocularis Thiolli^re, Fauna Woodlark, 1857, p. 178. Wood- 

 lark Island. 



Siganvs zoniceps Seale, Occas. Papers Bishop Mus., vol. 4, No. 1, 1906, 

 p. 69, fig. 18. Shortland Island. 



Siganus marmoratus (part) Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, 

 p. 511 (Okinawa, Riu Kiu). 



Depth 2}4 to 2H; head 3 to 3^^, width 2}/^ to 2J4. Snout 2 to 

 23^8 in head; eye 3 to 3%, l^ito 1^ in snout, 1 to 1}^ in interorbital; 

 teeth 30 to 32 in each jaw; maxillary 3^ to 4)^ in head; interorbital 

 2J^ to o^i, broadly convex; opercle, scapular arch and preopercle limb 

 with striae. Gill rakers 4 + 17, short points. 



Scales minute, ovoid, cycloid, circuli 60 to 90. Cheek scaled to 

 preopercle ridge. 



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