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grayish blue; caudal with rays pale red, the membranes bright green, the middle rays tipped witl 

 yellow, the outer with blue; anal striped, green, bright red, blue, narrow green, lighter red, finall\ 

 blue; ventral greenish at base, reddish behind; pectoral dusky above without distinct spot, a greei 

 bar toward base, a scarlet one below it, then a large green patch behind operde, with a wavy rci 

 stripe surrounding the green, pectoral black at tip; livid blue shades at throat. 



Fig. hS.—T/ialassm 



981. Thalassoma fuscum (Laeepede). Hawaii; Samoa; Laysan; Xew Hanover; Aneiteum; Tuhuai: 



Rarotonija and Makatea (Seale); East Indies. 

 ljil>rii!</iiK,;,s Laru|iuik-, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 437, 1802, He de France. 

 Labrux Irilohnlus LarelH-cle, Hist. Xat. Poiss., Ill, 454, 526, 1802, Bourbon, Madagascar. 

 Jiilis Irihilmlus, Cuvier & Valeni'iennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiii, 437, 1S39, He rte France. Gunther, Cat., iv, 187, var. .\. 



.Soutli .Africa, Mauritius, .\iieitum. Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 843, New Hanover. 

 JiUisJ'oniiosus Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., xiii, 439, 1839, He de France. 

 Julis xruf/inosus Cuvier &. Valenciennes, op. cit., 441, 1.839, He de France. 

 ,/a;i's gnadrioo/or Bleeker, Atlas, Labr., 93. tab. xx.\iv, fig. 3, .lava; noi of Bennett. 

 JulU purpiireus Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien 1900, 506, Honolulu. Laysan. 

 ^ Thalassdtna purpureum, Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxii, 1902 (1903), 462, Hawaii; not of Forsk&l. 



This species, known by its green, jews-harp markings on a red ground, compared by Lac^pede to 

 Chinese script, is occasionally taken in the South Seas. We have two specimens from Apia and .several 

 from Hawaii. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, deep red brick color, paler below, the squares deep-bluit^h 

 green; head coppery olive; first dorsal creamy scarlet, the ba^e green, the edge sky-blue; soft dorsal 

 similar with a red intermarginal band; caudal with rays sky-blue, the membrane bronze-orange; anal 

 orange on basal half, the rest sky-blue, a dark line separating a greenish shade at base; ventrals blue, 

 green at tip; pectoral dusky, darker above with diffuse blackish blotch at tip; axil deep Hue, a blue 

 spot rather faint at upper angle of gill opening. 



982. Thalassoma punctatum Seale. Guam; Rarotonga (Seale). 

 Julis punrtataav&h, Bishop Museum 1901, 91, Guam. 



This species seems tohec\oseto Tlmlassoiiiafii^cum, but it has a black ocellus on the back of the tail. 



983. Thalassoma umbrostigma(Ruppen). Hawaii; Samoa; Laysan; Makatea (Seale); East Indies. 

 This is an abundant species at Honolulu, hut seems to be scarce at Samoa. We have one adult 



specimen from Apia, and 6 young ones from Pago Pago. Life colors of four young specimens from 

 the latter place were as follows; 



(1) Green, bluish white below; three longitudinal bands of dark brown and rose pink; a brick 

 red spot at tail end of each of these lands; anal bluish white with rose suffusion; caudal clear with 

 rose suffusion; dorsal with rose-pink shading. 



(2) Yellow-green above, blue green below; two loiifritudinal series of brick-red spots with 

 blackish centers. 



(3) Bright green; 3 lengthwise series of quadrate spots, tlie median largest and joined by a 

 reddish brown shade; a spot behind eye, the median Ijand extending througli eye; upjier band also 



