214 BULLETIN OF THK BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Family MULLID^. 



19. Mulloides pflugeri Steindachner. 



Many very large .speeiinens of S to 4 pound:< weight were seen in the market. These were uniform 

 deep crimson red in color, without yellower black shadings or marking.s. They were called v:eke-ula, 

 or red mullet. It is possible that Mulloidrs flamuienx of Jordan and Evermann, with crimson cross- 

 bands, may be the young of Mulloides pfliujeri. 



We may here note tliat Upiyneun preorbildlix Smith A Swain (p. 263, Hawaiian report), is identical 

 witli Mulloides sama'nsix gihither. 



Family LABRID^. 



20. Thalassoma neanis, Jordan & Evermann, new species. (PI. .xii, tig. 2.) 



Head 3.5 in length to liase of caudal; depth 3.7; ilepth of caudal peduncle"; eye 5.5 in head; 

 snout 2.6; interorbital space 4.2; dorsal viii, 13; anal in, 11; scales 3-27-.S. 



Interorbital s])ace convex; snout somewhat poiuteil; tipof snout to occiput 4.3 in length; lijjs large 

 and ciimparatively thick, the lower one with two thin lateral, pendent folds; jaws each with a single 

 row of closely apposed, sharji, conical teeth, which grow successively smaller from before backward, 

 the antericjr tooth on each side enlarged and directed forward; cleft of mouth equal to width of preor- 

 bital; gillrakers, 6 -f 14, .sharply pointed, small, those near ends of arches very minute; head naked, 

 except a small patch of 4 or 5 scales on upper limb of opercle; scales thin, with soft membranous 

 edges; lateral line complete, following contour of back to a point below tenth dorsal ray, where it 

 abruptly bends downward, passing along middle of caudal peduncle, and ending on base of caudal 

 fin; origin of dorsal above base of pectoral, the distance between base of first spine and naked portion 

 of head e(|ual to half the distance between the latter point and tip of snout; soft dorsal slightly higher 

 than the spinous, the length of longest ray contained aliout 2.3 in head; dorsal and anal extending an 

 ei|ual liistance posteriorly, the latter with three strong spines, the rays slightly shorter than those of 

 the dorsal; caudal about erjual to head in length, lunate, the lobes acutely pointed; ventral pointed, 2 

 in head; pectorals rounded, 1.3 in head. 



Color, in formalin, when first received, almost fresh; head dark bluish gray, or purplish, becoming 

 yellowish on occiput and opercle, marked with irregular stripes about equal in width to diameter of 

 pupil; the upper stripe passing from snout to eye, above which it curves, then extending backward 

 and fading out on fifth or sixth scale of lateral line; another extending from corner of mouth to eye, 

 curving below it and passing oliliquely downward and backward to a point on opercle below its angle, 

 from wiiich point it borders the edge of the latter, then curves forward and reaches preopercle; cheek 

 with a round spot, apparently an interruption of the same stripe; another stripe begins near this and 

 continues forward and downward to a point posterior to corner of mouth, returning along ventral 

 region rif side of head to edge of subopercle; a median stripe extends from, middle of orbit backward, 

 curving downward to angle of opercle; chin with a transverse stripe; all these stripes are light green 

 on side of head, Ijluish on ventral parts, all narrowly bordered with lilackish violet; lips pale reddish 

 yellow; breast blackish with two faint dark-edged greenish stripes on each side below pectorals; body 

 bright citi'on yellow, dusky on breast; a broad area of sky blue extending downward from bases of 

 first to seventh dorsal spines, narrowing somewhat on side, then growing broader posteriorly and 

 extending backward to end of anal tin so that most of the belly is blue; basal portion of dorsal and 

 anal bright yellow, the distal part sk_y blue, the tips of the rays again tinged with yellow, the blue 

 and yellow areas separated by a narrow blue-black streak; a small dark spot behind second dorsal 

 spine; pectoral yellow, greater part of posterior half of fin lilack, a narrow triangular blackish blotch 

 at base; ventrals pale yellow; caudal yellow, the upper and lower edges greenish; no vertical mark- 

 ings on the individual scales. 



The specimen is an adult male. Type no. 577.S5 U. S. National iluseum, 7 inches long, from the 

 market at Honolulu. 



21. Thalassoma lutescens (Solander). 



In the collections of 1901 was obtained a fine male specimen of a Tlialassoma in form almost exactly 

 like T. )ieanis, but quite different in color. This specimen, in Jordan and Evermann's report (Bull. 

 U. S. F. C, xxiii, p. 303), is described as Tltalmsoma lunare, but on comparison with the true lunare 



