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less broken np into spots posteriorly, the fin with a broad rich blue border.; anal rich blood-red, with 
6 rich blue lines running full length of fin, the inner and outer ones broadest; caudal dusky orange in 
center, the outer rays dark blood-red, the edge blackish, green toward tip, extreme tip of fin whitish; 
pectoral orange on upper half, the lower half pale; ventrals with the rays sky-blue, the membranes 
blood-red; iris dull orange. 
Color in alcohol, dark brownish; side with about 13 or 14 series of round bluish white spots on 
the centers of the scales, coalescing in the lower 5 or 6 rows so as to form more continuous lines; under 
parts yellowish-white, with purplish-blue line; top and sides of head to below level of eye profusely 
covered with small roundish bluish-white specks; lower jaw and lower parts of cheek pale bluish with 
numerous round pale orange spots; dorsal dusky olive, the spinous portion crossed by wavy lines of 
blue-green, the soft portion covered with small bluish white specks, the border of the fin dark green; 
anal yellowish and bluish-green crossed by 5 or 6 wavy deep blue lines; anal dusky; pectoral plain 
dusky yellowish, ventral rays indigo blue, the membranes yellowish white. Young examples, about 
3 inches in length, show in alcohol, a large black spot more or less ocellated, on the last 4 rays of 
dorsal fin. 
This species is common about the reefs at Honolulu and is one of the most brilliantly marked of the 
many bright-colored fishes seen among the Hawaiian Islands. Our collections contain 29 specimens, 
all from Honolulu except 1, which is from Hilo. Of those from Honolulu, 8 were collected by Dr. 
Jenkins, 2 by the Albatross in 1891 and 1 in 1896, and 1 by Jordan and Snyder in 1900. It was also 
obtained at Honolulu by the Albatross in 1902. 
Our specimens are 3.2 to 11.5 inches long. 
Anampses cuvicr Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. de l’Uranie, Zool., 276, pi. 55, fig. 1, 1824, de rile Mowi [Maui]; Jenkins, Bull. 
U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 459 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 528 (Honolulu). 
Anampses cuvicri, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIV, 11, 1839; Gunther, Cat., IV, 136,1862 (Hawaiian Islands); 
ibid., Fische der Sudsee, VII, 251, pi. 136, fig. A, 1881 (Hawaiian Islands); Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900 
506 (Honolulu). 
Anampses cxruleopunctatus, Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 506 (Hawaiian Islands); not of Cuvier & Valenciennes; 
2 dried skins. 
