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8019, 15923 [1165]. Port Banalacan, Marinduque. February 23, 1909. Length 

 212 to 218 mm. [1165.] Sides anteriorly diffused with dusky in life, after 

 death fading silvery gray. Four or five broad copper red bands in life, fade 

 to pale red after death. Head dusky olive; blood red at preopercle margin, 

 tip or opercle and streak crossing eye above and below; inside mouth red. 

 Vertical fins vermilion; both dorsal and anal clear anteriorly, latter with more 

 or less orange terminally. Pectoral rays orange, membranes clear. Ventral 

 rays white, with very yellowish tinge, membranes clear. 



8639, 10734, 10735, 10737 to 10739. Port Ciego, Balabac. January 3, 1909. 

 Length, 140 to 223 mm. 



6344, 6349, 6397, 16612. Port Jamelo. July 13, 1908. Length, 145 to 230 mm. 

 Five examples. 



6143. Puerta Princesa, Palawan. April 5, 1909. Length, 198 mm. 



11177. Rasa Island, Mantaquin Bay, Palawan. April 11, 1909. Length 203 mm. 



9367. Romblon Harbor. March 25, 1908. Length, 160 mm. 



18624 [1283]. Saboon Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 10, 1909. Length, 

 128 mm. Olive and silvery gray, white below. Side with five obscure saddle- 

 like transverse bars, somewhat more distinct after fish faded. No lateral dark 

 blotch or red longitudinal bands. Vertical fins more or less vermilion toward 

 ends. Caudal yellowish basally. Pectoral very pale clear pink, dusky in 

 axil. Ventral pale, with slight purplish shade. 



9135, 9136. San Roque, Leyte.^ July 29, 1909. Length, 235 or 236 mm. 



A554. Sulado Island. September 17, 1909. Length, 220 mm. 



7338. Tara Island. December 14, 1908. Length, 280 mm. Upper surfaces 

 dark olive, below white. Scales above with dusky centers, those along middle 

 of side with blackish centers. Side of head with orange-bronze shades, but 

 without stripes or bars; opercular and preopercular margins bronzy; upper 

 lip pinkish; inside mouth scarlet, but not to gill opening. Dorsal membranes 

 clear vermilion, ends bright. Anal like dorsal, bright vermilion at base. 

 Caudal with brassy overshades extending to middle of side, edges vermilion. 

 Pectoral rays orange, membranes clear. Ventrals pinkish. 



18884. Tilig, Lubang. July 15, 1908. Length 180 mm. 



6668. Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 23, 1908. Length, 64 to 194 mm. Two 

 examples. Smaller with seven obscure dark blotches along back and reflected 

 alternately below lateral line. 



5927. Zamboanga. May 25, 1908. Length, 340 mm. 



7763. Manila market. June 17, 1908. Length, 319 mm. Outer portion of 

 lower caudal lobe evidently bitten off and healed, rays curved. 



A 1437, A 1494. Kait Point, Libani Bay, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. December 

 29, 1909. Length, 217 to 233 mm. 



A1350. Great Tobea Island. December 15, 1909. Length, 296 mm. 



A1328. Tomahu Island, north end of Bouro. December 11, 1909. Length, 305 mm. 



A15119. Doc Can Island. January 7, 1910. Length, 270 mm. 



U.S.N. M. No. 34808. Apia, Samoa. May 15, 1883. Dr. W. H. Jones. Length, 

 196 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 52377. Apia. Bureau of Fisheries (No. 02428). Length, 245 mm. 



LETHRINUS LEUTJANLS (Lac6p6de) 



Bodianus lentjan Lacep^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss, vol. 4, pp. 281, 293, 1802 ("Col- 

 lection zoologique c6dee par la Hollande k la France"; no locality). 



Lethrimis leutjanus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss, vol. 6, p. 309, 1830 (no 

 locality, probably Java). — Gijnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 461, 

 1859 (no locality).— ScHMELTZ, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 1, p. 8, 1864 

 (South Seas). — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 82, 1865 (Madras). — 

 Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, p. 120, pi. (76)354, fig. 5, 



