64 HIALMAR RENDAHL 
of eye; eye 3,9 in head; interorbital space 1,9 eye diameters and 0,6 length 
of snout; longest (5'*) dorsal spine 2,5 in head and 1,1 in longest dorsal ray; 
second anal spine 2,4 in head. I could not detect any ciliated scales but only 
cycloid ones. 
8. Girellops nebulosus Kendall and Radcliffe. — Gvrella nebulosa 
Kendall and Radcliffe 1. c. p. 120, pl. Il, f. 2 and pl. 1V, f. 1 and 2; Gzrellops 
nebulosus Regan |. c. p. 369, pl. LVII; FUENTES I. c. p. 16, lam. V. 
Three specimens, caught in a pool on the shore; 76, 53, and 38 mm (s. c.) 
The present samples agree entirely with the descriptions and figures 
published by the previous authors. As stated by KENDALL and RADCLIFFE the 
teeth are moveable. 
g. Thalassoma umbrostygma Ripp. — KENDALL and RADCLIFFE, 
lic. p. 141. — Fults umbrostigma Regan, |. c. p. 371 and FUENTES, lL. c. p. 
22 aa, IX. 
Native name: Bache — Three specimens, 248,5, 219 and 193 mm (s. ¢c.). 
These specimens agree with RUPPELL’s figure (Neue Wirbelthiere zu der 
Fauna von Abyssinien gehorig. Fische des rothen Meeres. 1835. Pl. 3, Fig. 2), 
except that all or nearly all scales of the back and sides of the body have 
blackish basal spots and that the opercles and cheeks are more richly spotted, 
as the photograph in FUENTES’ paper shows. 
To JORDAN’s statement in the diagnosis for this species (Bull. U.S. Fish 
Comm. vol. XXIII, pt. I, 1903, p. 300), that the eye is contained 6,6 times in 
head, a character also used by him in his table for examination of the 
Hawaiian species (I. c. p. 295), I shall remark that in my specimens this pro- 
portion varies between 8,6 and 7,0. Evidently it is impossible to ascribe to 
the relative dimension in question such a high value for distinguishing 772. 
purpureum and umbrostygma from each other as JORDAN has done. 
In the table below the dimensions of my specimens are recorded: 



‘ | | 1 | r- | ve in| 
Length of lee: | feet) era vee Bye aR eee Eye in pies | 
specimen (s. c.) | site leungotsh space| snout | orb. 
GRCA SCAG cal (Saca|||Cc. |isses|licxcalisac: il Sey space | 
| ieee ed me Se ee | | | | 
248,5 | 3,7 | 3,t | 3,0] 2,5] 8,3} 6,9]] 3.x] 25| 8,6 | 2,9 | 5,6 | 1,7 2,9 | 1,6 
219 | 3,8 13:3 | 3,4 | 2,8 | 7:8 | 6,5 | 352 2,7 | Teoma» 255 | 5,0 | 1,6 | 3,2 | 1,6 | 
193 3.91 3,31 3.2] 2.8] 8.6] 7.31 3.21 26l1 70 | 28 | 521 15] 2s | te 

As to the nomenclature I have followed the spelling wérostygma as 
used by RUPPELL in his original description (l. c. p. 11); later, the name has 
been wrongly quoted as wmbrostigma by GUNTHER and the following writers 
in their references to RUPPEL. 
10. ,Labrichthys. fuentesi Regan |. c.. p. 371, pl. V.-f. 1, FUENTES 
l. c. p. 22, lam. VII, f. 2. -—- Pseudolabrus inscriptus Kendall and Radcliffe 1. c. 
P.wl3 isp We ee? aodepl: VI, £7 
