FISHES FROM NEOROS— JORDAN AND SEALE. 787 



Color in spirits j^ellowish white, the bell}- and lower half of head 

 bluish white; a distinct dark brown wavy stripe slightly wider than 

 pupil from posterior marg-in of eye to base of caudal; a light brown 

 stripe from origin of dorsal to interorbital, where it divides into two, 

 which extend down to tip of snout; two short brown lines from upper 



Fig. 8.— Halichceres cymatogrammus. 



orbitals to back part of head; indistinct Ijrown line from fi-ont of eye 

 along sides of snout and around upper lip; a similar, but less distinct, 

 line around lower lip; -the tips of lips yellow, fins yellowish without 

 markings; iris jellow. 



One specimen from Negros, Philippine Islands. 



Type.-~Q2X. No. 51047, U.S.N.M. Length, 1.80 inches. 



64. HALICHCERES ARGUS (Bennett). 



Lahrus guttatus Bloch, Ichthyologia, 1791, pi. tcL.vxxvii, tig. 2, (not of Gmelin 



1789). 

 Jidlti argus Bennett, Zool. Journal, III, ji. 577, pi. xiii, lig. 7 (not Lahrus argus 



Bloch and Schneider). 



One line specimen of this beautifully colored species. 

 STETHOJULIS Gunther. 

 65. STETHOJULIS PHEKADOPLEURA (Bleeker). 



One specimen, with a distinct spot at base of caudal, similar to 

 Samoan examples, but a little deeper in Itody than Bleeker's tigure of 

 phehadopleura. Head, 8 in length; depth. 3.10. 



66. STETHOJULIS BANDANENSIS Bleeker. 



Two specimens. 



67. STETHOJULIS KALOSOMA Bleeker. 



One specimen. 



This species has the black line along sides almost obsolete; only a 

 short dusky line from back of eye to about ti]j of pectorals; eye larger 

 than in following species, being 4.50 in head, four lines of dots along 

 lower sides, with some fine dark specks between them and with 

 indistinct oblique lines. 



