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Depth 2}/^ to 2%; head 2H to 3, width 2-^ to 2^. Snout 

 23/^ to 23^ ; eye 6K to 8%, 23^ to 23/5 in snout, 2}^ to 3 in interorbital; 

 mouth cleft 4 to 5 K in head; Hps cover 3^ to ^ of teeth; canines 

 large, 1 or 2 above each side and 1 or none each side below, often 

 lower depressed below upper; interorbital 2% to 33^ in head, convex. 

 Gill rakers 15 to 25 + 30, short, fine, flexible. 



Scales in lateral line 17 or 18 +4 or 5 + 2 or 3; 2 scales above lateral 

 Une, 6 or 7 below, 4 predorsal; cheek with 2 rows of scales, preopercle 

 flange scaleless. Scales with 28 to 43 basal radiating striae, apical 

 31 to 48; circuli fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, ninth spine 2% to 2>% in head, first ray 23^ to 3>^; 

 A. Ill, 9, 1, third spine 3^ to 5, first ray 2% to Z%', caudal ly^tolYs, 

 emarginate, tips sometimes well exserted, double concave as expanded ; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2}i to 2%; pectoral 13^3 to 13^; ven- 

 tral IH to 2. 



Brown generally, often each scale slightly paler basally. Yel- 

 lowish, greenish, or grayish line across each lip and another from 

 their unison to lower eye edge, and continued slightly behind same. 

 Gray or greenish band from nostrils to eye, and sometimes one or twa 

 short bands backward from hind eye edge. Iris dull brown. Dor- 

 sals dull brown, with longitudinal marginal darker band and one 

 along bases of fin. Some examples with median brown longitudinal 

 band. Anals pale, with broad olivaceous marginal band and nar- 

 row basal one. Caudal largely dull olivaceous, with median pale 

 area of four large grayish blotches. Pectoral dark brown, also 

 ventral. Some examples with small gray spot at pectoral axil. 



East Indies, Riu Kiu, and Oceania to Hawaii and Tahiti. When 

 faded in alcohol the neutral blotch at the pectoral origin, in combi- 

 nation with the other characters, will usually serve to distinguish this 

 species. 



7461. Bolalo Bay. December 21, 1909. Length, 210 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 0-2; lower, 1-1.) 



6674 and 10599. Cabugan Island, Hinunangan Bay, Leyte Island. July 30, 

 1909. Length, 226 to 230 mm. (5674, canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, 1 — i 

 [1767]; 10599, canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, 2 — 2 [1768]. Prevailing colors 

 beryl green, middle of side largely overshaded with purplish and olive; blue 

 median ventral line and blue shaded line through first two rows of scales above 

 ventral contour; teeth white; lips blue, line passing from corner of mouth 

 backward under eye and obscurely washed across opercle to its point; two 

 dashes of green behind eye above this; margins of verticals, as usual, blue; 

 base of dorsal and anal same; purplish band through center of each, showing 

 somewhat orange under marginal blue of dorsal, shading into hyaline pink 

 posteriorly; obscure greenish shade through center; ventrals blue, with purplish- 

 pink stripe through middle; pectoral rays blue, membranes hyaline; caudal 

 has blue tip in fork and irregular blue bar toward base. 



9138. Same data. Length, 290 mm. (Canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower 2 — 1.) 

 Teeth white; lips blue, becoming green at corner of mouth, stripe passing 

 across preorbital under eye, pinkish on preopercle; dash of blue on snout in 



