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8417. Cebu market. March 20, 1908. Length, 258 mm. Stripes pale blue 

 with darker margin. Body olivaceous or yellowish above, becoming whitish 

 below. Fins with pink shades. Lower fins rather yellow, front of anal lilac. 



7644. Endeavor Strait, Palawan. December 23, 1908. Length, 287 mm. 



8517. Verde del Sur Island. April 6, 1908. Length, 285 mm. 



A716, A717. Danawan Island. September 27, 1909. Length, 535 and 538 mm. 

 Stripes of azure-blue on ground shading from dusky above to bright lemon- 

 yellow below, red-brown blotch on upper side of caudal peduncle about size 

 of eye. Brilliant orange band from hinder edge of orbit to opposite somewhat 

 broader than pupil. Band about half as wide across nuchal regions from 

 slightly behind angle of gill opening to its opposite. Upper tip of opercle 

 orange. First dorsal clear olive-yellow. Second dorsal clear lemon, becomes 

 brighter terminally. Caudal like second dorsal, edges and tip in fork somewhat 

 shaded with orange, upper edge dusky. Anal pale orange below, shading to 

 lemon-yellow posteriorly. Pectorals hyaline-yellow with dusky orange bar 

 at base. Ventrals pale orange. Iris yellow. 



A852. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length, 222 mm. 



The following without black saddle on caudal peduncle above : 



A679. Bumbum Island. September 25, 1909. Length, 323 mm. 

 6336. Cebu market. April 4, 1908. Length, 320 mm. 



SYMPHORUS FORSTERI (Schneider) 



Sparus forsteri Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 282, 1801 (type locality: Tong- 



atabu). 

 Aurata forsteri Cloquett, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. 12, p. 553, 1818 (reference). 

 Chrysophrys forsteri Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 140, 1830 



(Tongatabu) . 

 Symphor us forsteri Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 220, 1928 (on Gunther). 

 Sparus striatus (Forster) Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 282, 1801 (name 



in text). — LiCHTENSTEiN, Descript. Animal. Forster, p. 184, 1844 (same 



type) . 

 Symphorus taeniolatus Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 9, p. 439, 



1872 (type locality: Macassar, Celebes). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. 



N6erland., vol. 8, p. 99, 1876-1877 (copied GDnther). 

 Symphorus taeniolatus Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14f 



p. 15, 1885 (North Celebes). (Error.) 



Depth Uttle more than head, or 3. Eye 5 in head, close below 

 upper profile, rather nearer snout end than opercle end; mouth cleft 

 moderate, rather oblique jaws nearly equal; maxillary reaches some- 

 what beyond front eye edge; interorbital not much more than eye. 



Scales 55 in lateral line, 9 above, 20 below. Cheek scales small, 

 in 10 rows. 



D. X, 16, continuous, spines short and rather feeble, third to 

 ninth subequal or ){ of head, tenth conspicuously larger and attached 

 to first ray; soft dorsal elevated, third to sixth rays produced in long 

 thin filaments; A. Ill, 9, spines feeble, third nearly thrice second, 

 rays long, especially third, which produced as filament; caudal 



