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.' Caesio suevicus Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 46, pi. 5, fig. 2. 



Red Sea. 

 Caesio teres Seale, Occas. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, 1906, p. 44, fig. 13. 



Shortland Island, Solomons. 



Depth 31/5 to 31/3 ; head 31/3 to 3%, width 1% to 2. Snout 4 to 

 414 in head from snout tip; eye 41/8 to 4%, little greater than snout 

 to equal with age, 1% to li^ in interorbital ; maxillary reaches 

 to or Ys in eye, expansion £14 to 2%, length 3 to 314; teeth 

 small, simple, conic, uniform, uniserial in jaws; narrow band of 

 minute teeth on vomer and palatines, none on. tongue ; interorbital 

 314 to 34^, convexly elevated; broad preopercle flange with parallel 

 marginal venules, edge entire. Gill rakers 11 + 25, lanceolate, equal 

 gill filaments or 1% in eye. 



Scales 70 to 72 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 to 8 more on 

 latter; tubular scales 52 to 54 in lateral line to caudal base and 

 5 or 6 more on latter ; 7 to 9 scales above lateral line, 17 or 18 below, 

 22 to 24 predorsal extending forward opposite front pupil edge, 4 

 rows on cheek. Suprascapula entire. Scales with 11 or 12 basal 

 radiating striae; apical denticles 78 to 90, minute short points, with 

 13 or 14 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 15, I, fourth spine 2 to 2% in total head length, first ray 

 22/3 to 314 ; A. Ill, 12, 1, third spine 31/5 to 3i^, first ray 31/4 to 3% ; 

 caudal 1, deeply forked, with slender pointed lobes; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 3% to 4; ventral 1% to 1%; pectoral 2% to 3l^ in 

 combined head and body to caudal base. 



Back gray blue, with more or less brownish shades, lower sides 

 and under surfaces white with silvery reflections. Iris yellowish 

 white. Dorsals light brown, with narrow deep brown edge on 

 soft dorsal. Anal and caudal pale yellowish, former with hind 

 edges of lobes and latter with lower edge whitish. Pectoral yellow- 

 ish, with axil deep dusky brown, also at base externally blackish 

 brown triangular bar from origin of fin. Ventral yellowish white. 



Red Sea, East Indies, Philippines, Melanesia. Previously I have 

 examined of this species only the type of Caesio teres, based on a 

 specimen certainly a synonym of the present species. Caesio sitevi- 

 cus Klunzinger is likely a synonym of this species, as all its struc- 

 tural characters agree. It is, however, described with the tips of 

 the caudal deep black. 



22973. Canmahala Bay, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 11, 1909. Length 165 ram. 



8095 [958], 8096, 9485. Guntao Island. December 20, 1908. Length 195 tc 

 207 mm. 



21616, 21617. Makes! Island, Palawan. April 5, 1909. Length 163 to 183 mm. 



16995, 16996. Mompog Island. March 3, 1909. Length 151 to 152 mm. 



14965 [1268]. Refugio Island, Pasacao, Luzon. March 9, 1909. Length 225 mm. 

 Top of head and anterior middle of side bright blue, changing somewhat to 

 purplish ; nuchal regions washed with yellow over this blue, yellow becoming 



