scale with nerrow dark vertical streak or line, and as others 
show through cach scale apically narrow vertical barred ap- 
pearance results. Males likewise dull uniform brownish gen- 
erally, each scale with 2 narrow pale vertical lines, Adult 
males with head, dorsals and anals deep or slaty-brown, VYec~ 
toral brownish, oblique dusky or slaty-brown bloteh forming nar- 
row point forward, Ventral and caudal brownish, hind edge of 
latter narrowly pale. Length 110 to 197 mm, Twelve examples, 
all Hawaiian, labeled Maui, Hilo and Oahu, 
Gunther has admitted his Julis obscura as simply the fe- 
male, thus Julis verticalis Smith and Swain and ihalassoma 
ballieni Snyder, and Jordan and Evermann being added as syn- 
onyms. the last name, however, he thinks is incorrectly ap- 
plied by these writers. Julis ballieni Vaillant and vauvege 
is insuffieiently characterized, The specimens in the Academy 
Fowler listed as Thalassoma ameitensis and T. kiebaien. from 
the Hawaiiaa Islands, are all synonymous with the present species, 
and have been examined and compared in this connestion, 
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Thalassoma gunthert (Bleeker). YA4- lel. 
Head 2 4/5 to 2 5/6; depth 3 1/4 to 3 1/2; D. VIII, 15, 13 
A. II, 11, 13; scales 25 in lateral line to caudal base and & more 
om latter; 3 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin; 
3 to soft dorsal origin, and @ orlO to spinous anal origin; 6 or 
7 predorsal scales; snout @ 7/8 to 3 in head; eye 4 4/5 to 5 1/5; 
