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Pseudolabrus gymnogenis(Gunther). , 250. 
Head 2 2/3 to 3; depth 2 3/5 to 2 1/4; D.I, 11, 13 A. 
III, 10, 1; scales 24 or 25 in lateral line to caudal base 
and 2 more on latter; 4 scales above lateral line to spinous 
dorsal origin; 2 scales above to first dorsal ray base, 8 or 
9 scales below to spinous anal origin; 5 predorsal scales; 
snout 3 2/5 to 4 in head; eye 5 1/2 to 4; maxillary 3 1/5 to 
34/53; interorbital 4 to 4 2/5. 
Body compressed; caudal peduncle length 1 1/4 to 1 3/4 
its least depth, which 1 7/8 to 21/4 in totainhead length. 
Head width 1 7/8 to 21/6 its length. Eye ; 2/5 to 1 2/3 
in shout, 1 in young. Interorbital convex. ‘reopercle edge 
entire, membranous. Rakers 5+11, short, lanceolate, 5 in 
filaments, which 1 1/8 in eye. Head largely naked, except 
songle oblique row of large and rather coarsely striate 
scales from postocular down to middle of cheek, latter other- 
wise with rugose crowded vermiculate striae; cheek naked in 
young; smaller scales on predorsal, breast, along soft dorsal 
and anal bases and on caudal; basal radiating striae <1 to 
27; apical striae 37 to 55, emanating from median vertical 
divisional line; aborescent tubes in lateral line well ex- 
posed, First dorsal spine 4 1/6 to 5 in head; last dorsal 
spine 3 1/10 to 3 3/5; first dorsal ray 2 2/5 to2 4/5: 
third anal spine 3 1/3 to. 3 2/5; first anal ray 2 1/3 to 2 1/2; 
caudal 1 1/8 to 1 1/3; pectoral 1 1/3; ventral 1 7/8 to 2 1/10, 
