THE FISHES OF EASTER ISLAND 65 
One specimen, 115 mm (s. c.). 
The coloration of the present specimen agrees with KENDALL and Rap.- 
CLIFFE’'s figure pl. V, fig. 2 (I. c.). The small, white (in spirits) spots on the 
body sides are very distinct. 
11. Labrichthys semifasciatus n. sp. 
Two specimens, 222 (type) and 205 mm (s. c.), bought in preserved state 
on Easter Island. 
Deeeherts,A. Ibo 10;.P212; Vieass seales:in. lateral. line: 265 1:'4rz'4/¢. 
Dorsal scales extending on the base of the fin. A posterior canine tooth. 
Four anterior canine teeth in the Jower jaw and two in the upper; cheek with 
eight series of small scales. 
Proportions of the two specimens, 222 and 205 mm resp. Height 3,;—3,6 
in total length with the caudal, 3,2—3,: without that fin; head 3,5 in total 
length c. c. and 3,o—2,8 s.c.; eye in head 6,6 to a little more than 67/3; 
eye in snout 2,3—2,2; eye in interorbital space nearly 1,1; pectoral 1,;—1I,6 in 
head; height of caudal peduncle 6,6-—6,7 in total length s. c. 
Caudal squarely truncate with the exception that the lower and especially 
the upper lobes are produced and attenuated. 
Ground colour in spirits pale orange yellow, sides of head red (carmine?). 
The upper parts of the head longitudinally striated with dark brown bands, 
which also extend on the anterior back. The lowermost of these bands runs 
from the upper lip, just touches the eye and ends with a dark semilunar spot 
at the base of the opercular flap. The second stripe, counted from below, is 
incomplete, only occupying the opercle and likewise ending in a dark spot at 
the upper margin of the opercular flap. The number of bands is about 8 to 
g on each side of the head. The space occupied by the longitudinal stripes 
is abruptly limited behind on the 3d—4th vertical row of scales. Just at the 
root of the caudal there is a broad, dark brown (purplish in life?) cross-bar, 
and between this and the striated area of the anterior back five triangular 
cross-bars of similar colour. These cross-bars begin broadly above at the base 
of the dorsal, except the hindmost, which joins with its fellow on the upper 
side of the caudal peduncle. The hindmost bar does not quite reach the 
lateral line with its tip, the second and third counted from behind reach two 
scales below the lateral line, the fourth 3—4 and the fifth 4—6 scales below 
the lateral line. 
The parts of the body next to the base of the dorsal and caudal fins 
are probably red in lifetime. A narrow dusky line along upper and lower 
margin of caudal as well as at the base of the pectoral. Membrane of dorsal 
fin dark between Ist and 3d spines, otherwise the fins are pale orange yellow 
as the body; very small scattered dark spots are to be seen on the dorsal in 
the type specimen. 
12. Anampses pulcher Regan 1. c. p. 371, pl. LVIII fig. 3 and pl. 
LIX; FUENTES, |. c. p. 24, lam. VII fig. 3 and lam X. 
One specimen, 241 mm (s. c.), bought in preserved state on Easter 
Island. 
5 —20128. The Nat. Hist. of Juan Fernandez and Easter Isl. Vol. III. 
