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belly marked with two rows of green confluent spots; longer row 

 beginning below the base of the pectorals and extending past the 

 anterior base of the anal; the lower line extending from the tip of 

 the ventrals to the anterior base of the anal; forehead purple, 

 becoming green on the crown; upper and lower lip blue; a blue- 

 green line from the corner of the mouth back below the eye, termi- 

 nating about the diameter of the eye behind it; two bent blue lines 

 extending back from the posterior margin of the eye; base of lower 

 lip bluish-green; chin marked with a greenish cross bar; a green- 

 ish median line extending from the lower lip to the base of the 

 ventrals, connecting the cross markings on the lip and chin; mar- 

 gin of the post opercle green; iris yellow; the margin and base of 

 the dorsal blue; between these is a broad band of dull salmon ex- 

 tending the whole length of the fin; pectoral with upper edge blue, 

 the body of the fin pale green or greenish pink; ventrals edged all 

 around with blue or blue-green, the central portion salmgn pink; 

 anal with the anterior and outer margin blue, base and posterior 

 margin green, remaining central portion dull salmon; caudal with 

 the outer upper and lower produced rays blue; the entire base of 

 caudal and inner half of the produced rays purple; the terminal 

 half of the tail between the produced rays dull salmon. 



The type specimen (B. P. Bishop Museum No. 3360) here 

 described was secured in the Honolulu market April 30, 1902, and 

 measures 14 inches in length. (Fig. 7.) 



Scaridea zonarcha Jenkins, or else new species. 



Head 2.75 in body; depth 2.5; eye 4.9 in head; interorbital 4.5; 

 preorbital about 5; D. ix, 10; A. 11, 8; P. 1.33; V. 1.66; C. 1.66; 

 scales 1)^-25-7. 



Teeth equal; forehead convex; 3 scales before the ventrals; 

 origin of dorsal over base of pectoral; caudal rounded; dorsal rays 

 the longest, truncate; ventral rays much rounded; eye about one- 

 third its diameter below the profile of head. 



Color in formalin X alcohol varied brown and blackish-brown 

 without definite markings, save for two black spots on the dorsal 

 membrane following the first and second spines. 



Color (based on plaster cast colored from life). General color 

 of the back and posterior half of the body reddish-brown, reddest 

 at the occiput, brownest on the caudal peduncle; head lighter 



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