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round bluish spots; dorsal brownish, with a median series of large round bluish spots, above which 
is a similar series of smaller spots; base of membranes of anterior dorsal spines black, white at tip; 
anal similar to soft dorsal, somewhat darker, a series of blue spots along its base in addition to the 
second series distally, edge of fin paler, narrowly tipped with dark; caudal grayish, with narrow, 
vertical darker lines, the fin narrowly tipped with darker; ventrals whitish with 5 or 6 cross series of 
bluish spots; pectoral pale. 
We have examined? specimens of this species — one collected by us atHonoluluin 1901, 5 obtained 
by Dr. Jenkins at the same place in 1889, and one sent us by Mr. Berndt. They are 3.5 to 5.4 inches 
in length and agree well with the original of M. geoffroy, which was described from Maui. Quoy & 
Gaimard’s plate has the body and fins all blue; blue spots on all the fins save pectoral; yellowish on 
base of pectoral and tip of caudal; spots on ventrals distinct. The species is rare about the reefs. In 
life it is very handsome. 
Julis geoffroy Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., 270, pi. 50, fig. 3, 1824, Maui; Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 
XIII, 479, 1839 (Hawaiian Islands, Quoy & Gaimard’s specimen); Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-nederl., I, 1856, 58 
(Manado en Makass). 
Julis meleagris Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIII, 481, 1839, Ulea. 
Macropharyngodon geoffroyi, Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, 412, and Atl. Ichth., 129, pi. 37, tig. 5, 1862; Jenkins, Bull. U. S. 
Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 460 (Honolulu) . 
Platyglossus geoffroy ii, Gunther, Cat., IV, 145, 1862 (Hawaiian Islands); not of Gunther's Sudsee. 
Macropharyngodon aquilolo Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XIX, 1899 (Aug. 30, 1900), 46, fig. 1, Honolulu (type, No. 6130, 
L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus., coll. O. P. Jenkins). 
Genus 153. GOMPHOSUS Lacepede. 
Body rather elongate, compressed, covered with moderate-sized scales, 25 to 30 in the lateral 
line; lateral line not interrupted; head scaleless; snout abruptly produced, a long tube, which bears 
the rather long jaws at the end; canines small; no posterior canine; gill- membrane attached to the 
isthmus; D. vni, 13; A. m or n, 11. 
Small fishes of brilliant colors, allied to Thalassoma, but distinguished from all other Labridx by 
the prolonged snout. 
Gomphosus I.ucCpcde. Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 100, 1802 ( aeruleus ). 
a. General body color brown, scales margined with darker brown; vertical fins dark, the rays pale-tipped; caudal dark, 
with pale border at end (in alcohol) ; upper and lower rays of caudal little produced varius, p. 289 
aa. General body color green and bluish, scales margined with blue, vertical fins pale; caudal pale, with upper and lower 
rays dark, somewhat produced tricolor , p. 290 
227. Gomphosus varius Lac4pede. “Akilolo.” Fig. 125. 
Head 2.5 in length; depth 3.5; eye 10 in head; snout 1.8; mouth 4.5; interorbital 5.5; D. vm, 13; 
A. ii, 11; scales 4-27-9. 
Body elongate, compressed, deepest about middle of pectoral; head long, upper profile straight; 
snout very long, upper jaw slightly the longer, and produced into a long beak, its depth equal to eye; 
lips thick, fleshy; teeth strong, ends rounded, forming a cutting edge in sides of jaws; canines 2 in 
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