68 ^ NEW FISHES- FROM PACIFIC COAST — GILBERT. 



Caudal truucate or slightly emarginate, the outer rays scarcely pro- 

 duced. Outer ventrals rays produced, reaching vent, twice as long as 

 inner rays. 



D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12. Dorsal spines pungent. Pectorals 1^ in 

 head. Lat. 1. 28. 



A single specimen. Hi inches long, from Clarion Island. 



24. Thalassoma virens sp. nov. 



Uniform bright green, without distinguishing streaks or spots on 

 head or body. 



Head 3 in length; depth 2f to 4; depth of head 1^ in its length; 

 maxillary 3 J in head: snout 2f to 2f; eye 3^ in snout; iuterorbital 

 width half snout. 



Two strong canines in front of each jaw, tbe other teeth increasing 

 in length anteriorly, but not nearly equaling anterior pair. No poste- 

 rior canines. 



Scales on breast and nape reduced in size, the latter continuous over 

 the median line of nape, in about seven rows in front of dorsal. About 

 ten oblique rows on breast; twenty-seven or twenty-eight transverse 

 rows on sides. Two fall series of scales above lateral line, and four or 

 fiv^e small scales along base of fin. 



Depth of caudal peduncle 2| in head. Outer caudal lobes greatly 

 produced, 1;V in head, the middle portion truucate, one-half length of 

 head. Outer ventral rays produced, but not nearly reaching anal; twice 

 the length of the inner rays, half length of head. Pectorals If in head. 



D. VIII, 13; A. Ill, 11. Dorsal spines strong, pungent. 



Very abundant at Socorro Island ; the largest specimen seen, 13 

 inches long. 



25. Thalassoma grammaticum sp. nov. 



Bright green, each scale of sides with a purplish bar at base. Head, 

 nape, breast, and belly purplish ; the head with four green streaks on 

 each side margined narrowly with brown. The lowermost bar runs 

 on mandible, lower preopercular margin, and interopercle ; the second 

 runs from mandibular articulation across cheek and subopercle, show- 

 ing a strong upward curve below eye; the tiiird is nearly parallel with 

 the second, running from angle of mouth to opercular margin, passing 

 through lower margin of orbit; the fourth runs backwards from orbit 

 to upper posterior angle of opercle, then downwards along margin of 

 opercle to base of pectoral. These streaks are continued backwards 

 more or less as wavy green streaks on breast and sides below pectorals. 

 Dorsal and anal purplish with a wide termiual green bar nearly half 

 as wide as fin. Upper and lower caudal rays purplish, the median 

 rays light. Pectorals and ventrals light purplish. A small black 

 blotch on base of pectorals above. 



