width 21/3 to 2 2/3 its length. Rakers 5+412, lanceolate, 
2 in filaments, which 1 1/3 im eye. Scales thin, exposures 
triangular, basal radiating striae 27 to 32, apical 62 to 64; 
tubes in lateral line with well-developed midrib and terminal 
cluster of 8 to 11 branches, Color in alcohol dull brownish, 
each scale with vertical pale bar, margined in front and behind 
with equally wide brown bar, Fins pale brown, Dorsels with re- 
ticuleted pale brown lines and anals with short broad pale ver- 
miculate bars on lines, Length 70 to 310 mm, Ten Mawaitan 
examples, of which 3 labeled Maui and 5 Oahu. 
waa Saal P 
Thalassoma duperrey(Quoy and Gaimard). © *~/,“-» 
: female male 
Head 3 to 5 1/3 im , 31/5 to 3 2/5 im 3 depth 3 1/8 to 
6 2/5; D, VIII or IX, 12, i, varies occasionally 13, i, rerely 
ii, 43 A. If or ITI, ll, 13 tubular scales 25 or 26 in lateral 
line to caudal base, and 1 or 2 more on latter; 3 or 4 scales 
above lateral line to spininous dorsal origin, 9 or 10 below to 
spinous anal origin, 9 or 10 predorsal scales Siar we 9 in male; 
snout 2 2/5 to 2 2/3 in head in female, 2 7/8 to 3 3/5 in male; 
eye 4 3/5 to 6 2/5; maxillary 3 1/5 to 3 1/4 im female, 4 to 
4 4/5 in male; interorbitel 4 1/4 to 5 im female, 3 3/4 to 4 in 
male; head width 2 1/10 to 2 2/5, Snout compressed, width 1 to 
1 1/2 its length. Rakers 6 to 8+12 to 14 short points, 1/5 to 
1/4 of filements, which 1 to 11/6 in eye. Head naked, except 
small pateh of scales on upper surface; basal radieting striae 
on scales 55 to 50, apical 23 to 35, median reticulate area mod- 
erate to absent. Color in alcohol of female dull brownish, each 
