140 THE SHORE FISHES. 
6-46-11; No. 3167 has head 3 in length; depth 5.84; orbit 6.38 in head; dis- 
tance from tip of snout to corner of mouth 2.8; tip of upper lip to orbit 2.25; 
interorbital 10.4; pectoral 2.8; dorsal rays 22; anal I, 14; scales 6-46-11. 
No. 3168 has head 3 in length; depth 6.42; orbit 7.17 in head; distance from 
tip of snout to corner of mouth 2.48; tip of upper lip to orbit 2.17; interorbital 
10.1; pectoral 2.71; dorsal rays 22; anal I, 14; scales 646-11. 
Nos. 3166 and 3167 are essentially alike in color, each having a large irregular 
black blotch on the side immediately back of tip of pectoral, beginning on a 
level with opercular angle and extending in No. 3166 to the belly and not quite 
to it in No. 3167, the spot being fainter below; general color of body and upper 
part of head, dark purplish brown, each scale margined with yellowish, giving 
_ the specimen a cross-hatched appearance; dorsal and anal membranes mottled 
with white; caudal in No. 3166 brownish olive, in No. 3167 it is mottled like 
dorsal and anal; No. 3168 is markedly different in color, almost uniformly dull 
yellowish tending to brownish on back; a longitudinal dark stripe on axis from 
just below angle of opercle to caudal, the stripe is composed of spots, each oceupy- 
ing most of a scale, anteriorly the spots are in pairs, posteriorly they are single 
and on the lateral line; all the fins are plain yellowish, no mottling. 
Thalassoma duperrey (Quoy & Garmmarp). 
Jorpan & EverMann, Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm., 1905, 23, pt. 1, p. 302, fig. 130, pl. 35. 
Julis duperrey Quoy & Gaimarp, Voy. Uranie. Zool., 1824, p. 268, pl. 56, fig. 2. 
One specimen 6 inches long from Toboguilla Island. 
One specimen, M. C. Z. 29404, 43 inches long from Acapuleo. 
The following color note was with the last specimen, M. C. Z. No. 29404: — 
“Shoulder and front of pectoral canary-yellow; belly and rest of body wine- 
red; looks blue in water on top; head pinkish black; chin blue; pectoral spot 
blue-black; darker sublateral band; caudal black; dorsal and anal body color 
with a light margin.” 
Thalassoma purpureum (IorsKAL). 
Jorpan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm., 1905, 23, pt. 1, p. 295. 
Scarus purpureum ForskAt, Descript. Anim., 1775, p. 27. 
One specimen, No. 3169, 16 inches long, probably from Cook Bay, Easter 
Island. 
This specimen is a faded counterpart of Scarus georgii (Bennett, Fish. 
Ceylon, 1834, pl. 24) and resembles very closely Ruppell’s figure of Julis semi- 
coeruleus (Neue Wirb. Fische, Atlas, 1828, taf. 3, fig. 1). 
