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7291. Mansalay, Mindoro. June 4, 1908. Length, 160 mm. 



8581. Matnog Bay. May 31, 1909. Length, 328 mm. 



12746. North end of Endeavor Strait, northwest coast Palawan Island. Decem- 

 ber 22, 1908. Length, 108 mm. 



13886. Observatory Island. December 19, 1908. Length, 169 mm. 



10736. Port Ciego, Balabac Island. January 3, 1909. Length, 156 mm. 



8446, 21634. Port Jamelo, Luzon. July 13, 1908. Length, 62 to 84 mm. 



Seventeen examples. Port Matalvi, Luzon. November 23, 1908. Length, 31 

 to 80 mm. Body with eight or nine variable transverse dark bands, often 

 double, some narrow, others variably wider, often broken or forming vertical 

 bars. Second vertical band of trunk intensified little as dark or dusky spot, 

 never larger than eye above depressed pectoral. Most all small examples with 6 

 longitudinal pearly or gray-white bands, very variable, broken as bars or spots 

 and of variable intensity crossing dark vertical bands. With age these all 

 largely disappear until only axial may remain. 



7077. Port San Pio Quinto. November 11, 1908. Length, 268 mm. 



18748 to 18750. Pratas Reef. October 25, 1908. Length, 136 to 176 mm. 



19779. Ragay Bay, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 10, 1909. Length, 45 mm. 



7056. Romblon Harbor. March 25, 1908. Length, 173 mm. 



12263, 12264. San Juanico Strait, Leyte, Samar. April 13, 1908. Length, 187 

 to 203 mm. 



6553, 12195. San Roque, Leyte. July 29, 1909. Length, 193 to 228? mm. 



7540, 8815, 8817, 8822, 8823, 12621 to 12623. Santiago River, Pagapas Bay, 

 Luzon. February 20, 1909. Length, 102 to 168 mm. 



19074 [1813], 19075. Silino Island. August 10, 1909. Length, 215 to 218 mm. 



20620. Sirinao Island, Nakoda Bay, Palawan Island, near Alfonso XIII. Decem- 

 ber 30, 1908. Length, 129 mm. 



8296. Sorsogon market, Luzon. March 12, 1909. Length, 290 mm. 



9382, 9383, 15610. Taganak Island. January 7, 1909. Length, 213 to 218 mm. 



18775. Tictauan Island. September 8, 1909. Length, 151 mm. 



6429. Tilig, Lubang. July 14, 1908. Length, 230 mm. 



Nine examples. Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 23, 1908. Length, 42 to 88 mm. 



5939. Zamboanga market. May 26, 1908. Length, 315 mm. 



22382. Amboina market, Amboina, Dutch East Indies. December 7, 1909. 

 Length, 134 mm. 



5042. Sandakan, Borneo. February 29, 1908. Length, 270 mm. 



11734, 19326, 19329, 19986, 20391. Sandakan Bay. March 2, 1908. Length, 71 

 to 100 mm. 



5118. Sandakan market. March 4, 1908. Length, 177 mm. 



A1211 to A1214, 19793. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length, 131 to 

 365 mm. 



A1400, A1402. Tampotana Island, Flores Sea. December 21, 1909. Length, 

 260 to 320 mm (A1400). Scales silvery gray with opaque median spot, small 

 on back and becoming slightly elongated on middle of side where margined 

 with olive. Head olive-brown; opercular flap bright scarlet; few red shades 

 about eye; inside mouth scarlet, none showing on preopercle membranes. Dor- 

 sals pale, mottled with light vermilion. Anals somewhat like dorsals, mark- 

 ings broader. Caudal like dorsals, mottling finer. Pectoral very pale olive, 

 scarlet at base in and outside. Ventral hyaline-olive. 

 18263. Tomahu Island. December 11, 1909. Length, 140 mm. 



6690. Hong Kong. August 13, 1908. Length, 290 mm. Gray, with pale spots 

 on scales of back and sides, lower surfaces white. Faint trace of bronze longi- 

 tudinal stripe. Purplish streak across preopercle. Purplish tinge before and 

 under eye. Inside mouth scarlet. 



6807. Kowloon market. September 19, 1909. Length, 283 mm. 



