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Figure 13. — Scarus frenatus, after a specimen from the Red Sea, collected by Dr. Eugenie 

 Clark, USNM 163414, with shading as follows: Stippled areas = brownish; black = bright 

 green, white = pale or light green. (Sketch by author.) 



346. Color not as above. 



35o. Pectoral rays usually ii,13. 



36a. Background color yellowish orange, with 5 bright 

 blue vertical bars composed of bright blue cen- 

 ters of scales on about 2 rows of scales; these 

 blue scales may preserve as dusky centers or as 

 pale centers, more often the latter; edge of upper 

 lip red, that of lower blue, for details of which 

 see plate 16,c,d. (Central and West Pacific, 

 Indian Ocean.) ghobban ForskS,! 



366. Background color yellowish orange or yellowish 

 brown or brownish, each scale of body with a 

 distinct blue spot; cheek and caudal fin with 

 blue spots; blue streaks on the head as shown 

 in figure 14; plate 17,a. (West Pacific, Indian 

 Ocean.) . . . guttatus Bloch and Schneider 



36c. Color pattern not of vertical blue bars or of blue 

 spots on nearly each scale; upper lip broadly 

 pale edged; teeth green. 



Figure 14. — Scarus guttatus, after drawings by Bleeker and by J. L. B, Smith. (Sketch 



by author.) 



