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of the California coast, Halicheres semicinctus, the kelpfish, 
light olive, the male with a blue shoulder bar, is found in south- 
ern California. On the west coast of Mexico are numerous 
species of Thalassoma, Halichares, Pseudojulis, Xyrichthys 
and Inistius, all different from the corresponding species in 
the West Indies, and equally different from the much greater 
Fic. 321.—Redfish (male), Pimelometopon pulcher (Ayres). San Diego. 
variety found in Hawaii and in Samoa. About the Polynesian 
and West Indian islands abound a marvelous wealth of forms of 
Fic. 322.—Lepidaplois perditio (Quoy & Gaimard). Wakanoura, Japan. 
every shade and pattern of bright colors—blue, green, golden, 
scarlet, crimson, purple—as if painted on with lavish hand and 
often in the most gaudy pattern, although at times laid on 
with the greatest delicacy. The most brilliant species belong 
to Thalassoma and Julis, the most delicately colored to Stetho- 
