reveal the sexes, owing to its long preservation in alcohol, 
besides sometimes the viscera are damaged, we feel that the 
characters advanced ny Jordan and Evermann for their C. rosea 
may very readily be assigned to sexual or immature conditions. 
Thus the less produced first dorsal spine and the larger eye 
are especially pertinent. Although our large example of C. rosea 
is much faded, it had precisely tne color-markings on the head, 
according to such traces as remain, as in the undoubted exam- 
ples of C. baillieni, It therefore would follow that C. argen- 
teo-striatus Steindachner and Hemicoris keleipionis Jenkins are 
other synonyms. These suggestions were written sometime before 
we noticed Gunther's idea that C. rosea is likely the female,°+° 
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Journ, ““us,Godeffroy,vol.16,heft 8,1909, p. 276, 
TTT A A AEKEE Ds SO RE ME ew nce 
Coris venusta Vaillant and Sauvage. 4 %% 
Heed 3 2/6 to 3 i/e; depth 3 1/2 to. 3.2/3: DIX, 12, 4; 
A. III, 12, 1; seales 49 or 50 in lateral line to caudal base 
and 2 more on latter; 4 or 5 scales above lateral line to spi- 
mous dorsal origin. 3 or 4 to soft dorsal origin, and 16 to 18 
below to spinous anal origin; 12 predorsal scales; snout 3 1/8 
to 3 1/3 in headl eye 5 1/5 to 6; maxillary 4 1/4 to 4 1/2; 
interorbital 4 4/5 to 5. 
Body strongly compressed; caudal peduncle length 2/3 to 3/4 
its least depth, which 2 to 3 1/2 in head. Head width 2 1/8 
