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grayish blue; caudal with rays pale red, the membranes bright green, the middle rays tipped with 

 yellow, the outer with blue; anal striped, green, bright red, blue, narrow green, lighter red, finally 

 blue; ventral greenish at base, reddish behind; pectoral dusky above without distinct spot, a green 

 bar toward base, a scarlet one below it, then a large green patch behind opercle, with a wavy red 

 stripe surrounding the green,_pectoral black at tip; livid blue shades at throat. 



Fig. 53. — Thalassorna cyanogastcr (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



981. Thalassorna fuseum (Lacepede). Hawaii; Samoa; Laysan; New Hanover; Aneiteum; Tubuai; 



Rarotonga and Makatea (Seale) ; East Indies. 

 Labrusfuscus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 437, 1802, lie de France. 

 Ldbrus Irilobatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 454, 526, 1802, Bourbon, Madagascar. 

 • Julis trildbatus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIII, 437, 1839, He de France. Gunther, Cat., iv, 187, var. A. 

 South Africa, Mauritius, Aneitum. Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 843, New Hanover. 

 Julis formosus Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., xm, 439, 1839, He de France. 

 Julis aeruginosas Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., 441, 1839, He de France. 

 Julis quadricolor Bleeker, Atlas, Labr., 93, tab. xxxiv, fig. 3, Java; not of Bennett. 

 ■Julis purpureas Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien 1900, 506, Honolulu, Laysan. 

 Thalassorna pu.rpureum t Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxn, 1902 (1903), 462, Hawaii; not of Forskal. 



This species, known by its green, jews-harp markings on a red ground, compared by Lac6pede to 

 Chinese script, is occasionally taken in the South Seas. We have two specimens from Apia and several 

 from Hawaii. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, deep red brick color, paler below, the squares deep-bluish 

 green; head coppery olive; first dorsal creamy scarlet, the base green, the edge sky-blue; soft dorsal 

 similar with a red intermarginal band; caudal with rays sky-blue, the membrane bronze-orange; anal 

 orange on basal half, the rest sky-blue, a dark line separating a greenish shade at base; ventrals blue, 

 green at tip; pectoral dusky, darker above with diffuse blackish blotch at tip; axil deep blue, a blue 

 spot rather faint at upper angle of gill opening. 



982. Thalassorna punctatum Seale. Guam; Rarotonga (Seale). 

 Julis punctata Seale, Bishop Museum 1901, 91, Guam. 



This species seems to be close to Thalassorna fuseum., but it has a black ocellus on the back of the tail. 



983. Thalassorna umbrostigma (Riippell) . Hawaii; Samoa; Laysan; Makatea (Seale) ; East Indies. - 



This is an abundant species at Honolulu, but seems to be scarce at Samoa. We have one adult 

 specimen from Apia, and 6 young ones from Pago Pago. Life colors of four young specimens from 

 the latter place were as follows: 



(1) Green, bluish white below; three longitudinal bands of dark brown and rose pink; a brick 

 red spot at tail end of each of these bands; anal bluish white with rose suffusion; caudal clear with 

 rose suffusion; dorsal with rose-pink shading. 



(2) Yellow-green above, blue green below; two longitudinal series of brick-red spots with 

 blackish centers. 



(3) Bright green; 3 lengthwise series of quadrate spots, the median largest and joined by a 

 reddish brown shade; a spot behind eye, the median band extending through eye; upper band also 



