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Dorsal XII, llr, anal II, II2; scales 3-27-85, 14 pores in lateral line on left 

 side and 18 on right; head 3.33; depth 2.13 in length without caudal; eye 2.72 

 in head; snout 4; outer teeth in both jaws much enlarged and conical; pre- 

 orbital serrate. 



Color, plain brown; all the fins brown except that the anal is dusky antcri- 

 orl>- and the upper and lower margins of caudal much darker than the middle 

 rays. 



Chromis caeruleus (Cuvieh & Valexciknnes). 



Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. .S. Bur. Fish., 1906, 25, p. 290. 



Heliases caeruleus Cvv. & Val.. Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1830, 5, p. 372 (497). 



No. 08880, twenty-one specimens, ll to 2i inches long, from Taritari, 

 Gilbert Islands. Some of these specimens appear to have a double row of teeth 

 in the lower jaw in front, having two large prominently projecting teeth on each 

 side of symphysis of lower jaw. 



Xo. 088(52, four specimens 2| to 2^ inches long from Kusaie, Caroline Is- 

 lands. 



Xineteen specimens, M. C. Z. 29534, 1 5 to 2i inches long from Fakarava, 

 Paimiotu Islands. 



These specimens agree better with CJuvier & Valenciennes's description of 

 C. lepisurus than with C. caeruleus, but we follow .Jordan & Seale, who make 

 C. Icpis7irus a synonym of ('. caeruleus. 



LABRIDAE. 



Stethojulis strigiventer (Be.nnett). 



Bleekek, .\tlas Ichth., 1S62, 1, p. 131, tab. 43, fin. 1. GOntheu, Cal,, 1S(;2, 4, p. 140. 

 J nils strigiventer BENyiBTT, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.. 1832, p. 184. 



One specimen, No. 08954, 3io inches long from Wotje, Marshall Islands. 

 No. 09096, and nine specimens 08905, M. C. Z. 29477, 1 to 2 inches long from 

 Truk, Caroline Islands; Xo. 09089, eleven specimens, I5 to 2? inches long from 

 Moen, Caroline Islands. Xo. 05892, M. C. Z. 29476, two specimens, ll and 2 

 inches long from Fakarava, Paumotu Islands. 



Each one of Xo. 08905 has a small black spot on the base of caudal just 



