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Fic. 35. Stethojulis trossula (Jordan & Snyder). (From Proce. U.S. N. M., Vol. XXIV, p. 633). 
195. Halichoeres poecilopterus (Temminck & Schlegel). 
Misaki, No. 6247a—-c; Shimonoseki, No. 6266a—b; Osaka, No. 6186a-—d. 
This seems to be the male, and the form called H. pyrrhogrammus is probably 
the female of the same species. 
196. Julis musume (Jordan & Snyder). 
From Owston Collection, No. 4115a, Okinose, Sagami Bay. 
197. Thalassoma cupido (Temminck & Schlegel). 
Misaki, No. 6425a. 
198. Xyrichthys sciistius, sp. nov. (Plate XXX, fig. 3). 
The following is a description of the type, 165 mm. long, from Sagami Bay, 
No. 6028, C. M. Cat. of Fishes: 
Head 3.33 in body, without caudal; depth 2.66; eye 6 in head; preorbital 
depth 4.25; maxillary 3.4; depth of caudal peduncle 2; D. IX, 12; A. III, 12; scales 
in lateral series twenty-five; in transverse series at middle of body 2.5/9.5. 
Eye set low in head, at diameter of an eye from dorsal profile and at the level 
of origin of lateral line; dorsal edge of snout and head moderately carinate, evenly 
arched from snout to dorsal origin, not more so on nape; distance from eye to dorsal 
origin greater than depth of pre-orbital; latter one and two-thirds diameter of eye; 
maxillary nearly reaching vertical from eye; cheek without furrow from end, of 
maxillary; teeth of both jaws in three or four rows, the outer conical and slightly 
enlarged, the inner two granular and small; two forward pointing canines in each 
jaw in front, a single smaller canine in the center of each side of the lower jaw; no 
posterior canine; gill-rakers eleven on lower limb of first arch. 
First two dorsal spines of very slightly greater height than the following, sub- 
equal, about 3 in head; soft rays 2.5 in head; anal similar to soft dorsal; its spines 
short, graduated; vent decidedly nearer snout than base of caudal; ventrals 1.33 in 
head, slightly filamentous, reaching anal insertion; pectorals 1.5 in head. 
