6 3/ 
less joined or with short intersecting vertical red bars; lower 
red band extends submarginally along lower caudal lobe like upper; 
hind caudal edge green, with 8 horizontal streaks purple or blend- 
ed with blue; forsals green basally, terminally blue, soft fin 
with narrow green edge; median dull purplish band longitudinally 
on both dorsals, subterminal on spinous fin, more median on soft 
fim; anal with blue base, broad margin green, and longitudinal 
band orange; pectoral blue; ventral green; iris olive, red cir- 
ele around pupil. 
We find on’ comparison, the type of Thalassoma yinmanis 
Fowler is synonymous, as contended by Jordan and Evermann, 
A small dry skin also from Thornton Island, is in the Academy, 
Three other small dry skins in the Academy, from the Hawaiian 
Islands were wrongly included as T, purpureum<25 and are appar= 
ently fT. Fuscum(Lacépede). All still retain & blackish or donne. 
blotch on the first and part of the second membranes of the spi- 
nous dorsal, Though the colors heve otherwise largely faded 
they show very slight traces of the pattern characteristic of 
All appear to have the caudal convex behind, 
Proc ,Acad,Nat.,Sci,Phila.;1900, p. 510, 
Thalassoma umbrostigma(Rippell). fay 
Head 3 to 3 1/2; depth 3 3/5 to 3 7/8; D.VIII, 13,4; A. 
II, i; scales 25 in leterah line to caudal base and 2 more on 
latter; 5 scales above lateral lime to spinous dorsel origin, 3 
to soft dorsal origin, and 8 or 9 below to spinous andi origin; 
