178 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



and obliquely on caudal peduncle along lower caudal lobe to its tip ; 

 caudal lobes terminally dusky. Lower anal edge dusky. Ventral 

 largely dusky, especially terminally. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Reunion, India, Siam, 

 Singapore, East Indies, Philippines, Queensland, Melanesia. A very 

 handsome species with striking color pattern. Bleeker gives the 

 maximum of 14 examples as 260 mm. The dark bands are relatively 

 much wider in the young. 



Russell's Botlawoo eham.pa ^* is a good representation of this fish. 

 He gives its length as 280 mm. Diacope siaviensis Valenciennes is 

 described with D. XI, 10; A. Ill, 11 ; length 305 mm. 



5151, 7305. Jolo market. March 6, 1908. Length 144 to 174 mm. 



56229 U.S.N.M. Luzon. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 118 mm. 



58019 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length 240 to 305 mm. 2 

 examples. 



84256 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. F. Baker. Length 220 mm. 



27601 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sum,atra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. Length 

 143 mm. When fresh in arrack with rosy pink. Broad deep brown band from 

 occiput, through eye and along side of snout to front of maxillary; frontal 

 space of general rosy pink like general body color. Another band across body 

 from spinous dorsal in front, extends across fin to ventrals. Another also 

 from spinous dorsal posteriorly down, back and obliquely across side of caudal 

 peduncle out over lower caudal lobe till including brown outer rays at their 

 tips. Abdomen and space between paired fins deep brown. Each scale of body 

 marked with pink spot, forming striped appearance; stripes all slightly 

 oblique, due to following in scale courses. Chest, cheek, and lower surface 

 of head rosy pink, though scales without brighter spots or centers. Front 

 half of soft dorsal and anal blackish brown. Dark or blackish brown blotch 

 on outer end of upper caudal lobe and deep brown at fin base above. End 

 of upper caudal lobe and narrow edge of lower one below pink. Pectoral 

 axil brown, basal parts of rays orange, rest of fin rosy pink. Ventral pink 

 basally, blackish terminally. 



Genus MACOLOR Bleeker 



Macolor Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerlaud. (Celebes), vol. 8, 1860, p. 25. 



Type Macolor typus BLEEKER=Di«cope macolor Cuvier, tautotypic. 

 PromUys Giix, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 236. Type Diacope 



nigra Lesson, monotypic. 



Body deep, well compressed, back elevated. Head large, obtuse 

 in profile. Snout rather short. Eye large, high. Mouth large, 

 jaws nearly equal or lower slightly protruded. Canines small, 

 largely concealed in thick coriaceous lips, as 4 above and 6 below, of 

 which former usually larger and all directed forward. Vomer and 

 palatines with narrow band of fine teeth. Pair of small wide-set 

 nostrils each side of snout. Preopercle with deep gash, receives 

 strong, interopercular spine. Squamation of head not extending for- 



" Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 1, 1803, p. 77, pi. 99. Vizagapatam. 



