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Fifty examples. Batangas market. June 7, 1908. Length 45 to 98 mm. 

 Thirty-three examples. Cehu market. March 20, 1909. Length 38 to 92 mm. 



[1417.] Greenish above, white below, with red wash showing after death; 



pale stripe from upper angle of gill opening backward to caudal ; fins pale, 



more or less pink above, lower fins white or colorless; caudal distinctly 



reddish, without dark tips. 

 Fifty-three examples. [D. 5562.] Tanum Point, Jolo, N. 87° E. 17.2 miles 



(5° 54' 20" N., 121° 13' 12" E.). September 19, 1909. Length 26 to 52 mm. 

 One hundred and thirteen examples. Varadero Harbor. July 22, 1908. Length 



29 to 40 mm. 

 32730 U.S.N.M. Indian Archipelago. Royal Museum Leiden. Length 85 mm. 



Genus PTEROCAESIO Bleeker 



Pterocaesio Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, vol. 9, 



1876, p. 153. Type Caesio multiradiatus Steindachneb, orthotypic. 

 Lriocaesio Bleieikeir, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, vol. 9, 1876, 



p. 153. Type Caesio cylindricus GItnther, orthotypic. 

 Clupeolabrus Nichols, Amer. Mus. Novit., No. 94, Oct. 19, 1923, p. 2. Type 

 Clupeolal)rus duhius Nichols, monotypic. 



Body elongate, slender. Upper jaw protractile. Teeth minute 

 and uniserial in jaws. Scales 70 in lateral series, in horizontal rows 

 on body. Head above, preopercle and opercle scaled. Dorsals scaly. 

 Dorsal spines 11, slender, rays 21. Anal rays 13. 



PTEROCAESIO TILE (Cuvier) 



Caesio tile Cuvieir, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 428. Caroline Archipelago. — 

 Valenciennes, Regne Animal, Cuvier, 111., 1839, pi. 36, fig. 2 (Mauritius). — 

 GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 393 (compiled) ; Journ. 

 Mus. Godeffroy, vols. 2-3, pts. 5-6, 1874, p. 34 (Kingsmills; Society Islands) ; 

 Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, pt. 6, 1880, p. 58 (Tongatabu).— Schmeltz, 

 Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, 1884, p. 29 (Mortlock).— Pohl, Cat. Mus. 

 Godeffroy, No. 9, 1885, p. 29 (Mortlock). — Kendall and Radcliffe, Mem. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 35, 1912, p. 114 (Mangareva, Gambler Islands).— 

 Fowler, Bull. Bishop Mus., No. 22, 1925, p. 9 (Guam) ; Mem. Bishop Mus., 

 vol. 10, 1928, p. 204 (Kingsmills, Society Islands, Mangareva, Nukuhiva, 

 Guam). 



Coesio tile Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., vol. 2, pt. 1, 1830, p. 181 (Caroline 

 Islands). 



Caesio cylindricus GIjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 393. Mada- 

 gascar. — Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 1, 1863, p. 344 (Mada- 

 gascar). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 1, 1864, p. 8 (East Indies) ; 

 No. 7, 1879, p. 40 (Tahiti) ; No. 9, 1884, p. 29 (Tahiti). 



Caesio (Caesio) cylindricus Satjvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, 

 p. 171, pi. 6, fig. 1 (type). 



Caesio multiradiatus Steindaohneir, Verb. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 8, 1861, 

 p. 175, pi. 5, fig. 1. Amboina. 



Pterocaesio multiradiatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 8, 1876- 



1877, p. 41 (compiled). — Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 62, 

 1922, p. 38 (Zamboanga). 



Clupeolahrus dtibius Nichols, Amer. Mus. Novit., No. 94, Oct. 19, 1923, p. 2, 

 fig. 2. Kamako, Mangareva Island. 



