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5795 and 5796. Pujada Bay. May 15, 1908. Length, 287 to 297 mm. (5795, 

 canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0; 5796, canines, upper, 1 — 2; lower, — 0.) 

 Cheeks yellowish green. 



5280. Romblon. March 25, 1908. Length, 300 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; 

 lower, — 0. Posteriorly scales bright emerald, basal portion heliotrope 

 purple, purplish obscuring green and both becoming dull anteriorly; top of 

 head grass green; purplish above eye and through lower part of eye to corner 

 of mouth; bright green through upper portion of eye; dash of green behind eye; 

 lips very narrowly pale purplish, behind bright blue broadly equal to pupil, 

 continuing from chin on median line of throat; cheek from corner of mouth to 

 edge of opercle pale green; lower head purplish; dash of blue behind chin band; 

 breast and belly purplish, also along anal. Dorsal front and margin broadly 

 blue, scaled base bright green, showing on membranes above; remainder of fin 

 occupied by four bands of equal breadth, marginal blue, then dull salmon, 

 bright green, and reddish salmon; last ray green. Top of caudal peduncle 

 green. Caudal bluish green, scaled base purplish; dashes of the same color 

 continued outwardly and one stripe through each lobe to tip of fin. Anal blue 

 terminally, green basally, and with narrow central bar of heliotrope. Ventral 

 dull purplish, front blue. Pectoral bluish green, with purple area in upper 

 half. Teeth greenish pinkish at base. Iris golden. 



5707 and 5708. Surigao, Mindanao. May 8, 1908. Length, 273 to 277 mm. 

 (5707, canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0; 5708. canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0.) 



CALLYODON FORSTERI (Valenciennes) 



Scarus forsteri Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 275. 



Tahiti. 

 Pseudoscarus forsteri Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. S (16), 1909 



p. 318, pi. 145 (type). 

 Callyodon forsteri Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 509 



(Okinawa) . 

 Scarus capistratoides Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genoot. (Labroied.), vol. 22, 



1849, p. 50. Batavia. 

 Pseudoscarus capistratoides Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerl., vol. 1, 1862, 



p. 29, pi. 6, fig. 2 (Java). — GIjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, 



p. 239 (Java). 

 Callyodon capistratoides Jordan and Richardson, BuU. Bur. Fisher., vol. 



27, 1907 (1908), p. 268 (CagayanciUo) . 

 Pseudoscarus labiosus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, 



1882, p. 591. New Guinea. 

 Scarus gilberti Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 19, 1899 (1900), p. 59, 



fig. 17. Honolulu. 

 Scarus jenkinsi Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 



1902 (1903), p. 195. Honolulu. 

 Callyodon bataviensis (not Bleeker) Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., 



vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 323, fig. 61 (Apia). 

 Callyodon oktodon (not Bleeker) Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. 



Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 96 (Zamboanga). 

 Callyodon balinensis (not Bleeker) Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. 



Fisher., vol. 26, 1906, p. 96 (Bacon). 

 Scarus bataviensi<i (not Bleeker) Kendall and Goldsborotjgh, Mem. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 26, No. 7, 1911, p. 305 (Jaluit). 

 Callyodon pronus (not Fowler) Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 62, 1922, p. 52 (Cebu). 



