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blue band) ; caudal lobe blue, the middle rays red ; 

 dorsal and anal red ; pectorals yellowish, the axillary 

 spot large, black, edged with red . . Chrysopterum, 91. 

 hh. Canines one or two on each side; upper and lower caudal lobes 

 greenish. 



i. Opercle without black and yellow spot, pores of lateral line each 

 with few (4 or 5) nearly simple branches. Color in 

 life chiefly light blue, without sharp markings, fading 

 to reddish in spirits; caudal dull greenish, the middle 

 rays reddish ; other fins mostly scarlet ; axillary spot 

 well defined Lorito, 92. 



ii. Opercle with an inky black spot, in front of which is a golden spot ; 

 one short blunt canine ; no spot at base of pectoral ; 

 axil dark within ; a white blotch near root of caudal; 

 gill membranes red ; pectorals dark green posteriorly • 

 anal green at base and at margin, brownish in the 

 middle ; caudal with a red crescent, separated by a 

 green band from the transparent posterior margin. 



Viride, 93. 



gg. Caudal fin simply lunate, the outer rays more or less exserted, but not 



twice as long as the inner rays and much shorter than 



the head; canine single on each side (rarely obsolete 



or duplicated). 



q. Body largely red in life ; no pale blotch on back of tail. 

 j. Head with a scarlet stripe from below eye to angle of mouth; a 

 small scarlet streak behind eye ; color chiefly purplish 

 brown ; a round spot of yellow and black behind head, 

 just below lateral line; fins chiefly red; angles of 

 caudal black ; axillary spot obscure. 



AUROFRENATUM, 94 b. 



jj. Head uustriped ; color dark reddish brown, with white mottlings ; 

 no yellow or black spot ; belly abruptly red ; fins 

 mostly cherry red ; axillary spot obsolete ; body rather 

 deep ; scales large, their outlines well defined. 



Abildgaardi, 95. 



qq. Body with little or no red in life ; a pale blotch on back of tail ; 

 axillary spot faint ; caudal barred ; body with 3 or 4 



pale lengthwise streaks Distinctum, 95 b. 



ggg. Caudal truncate or slightly rounded ; the angles not acute. 



z. Posterior canine single on each side ; body rather stout. Color 

 grayish olive, closely-speckled with whitish and dusky ; 

 lower half of body abruptly paler from level of eye ; 

 upper half with a narrow whitish stripe confluent 

 with the back from nape to end of dorsal ; the part 

 of back below this crossed by irregular dusky bars 

 which end abruptly at level of eye; lower half with 

 obscure pale lengthwise streaks; a black spot as 

 large as pupil on end of opercle ; axil and base of 

 pectoral dark ; dorsal gray, throughout mottled with 

 pale and vaguely barred and spotted with blackish ; 

 caudal dark olive, with narrow pale cross-bars ; a 

 broad olive cross-bar at base ; anal colored like soft 

 dorsal ; ven tral faintly barred ; pectoral plain ; chin 

 with two broad silvery cross-bars, and two irregular 

 bars of dark olive Nipiiobles, 9C- 



