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lavender field; interocular band across interorbital; nape gray and heliotrope 

 purple; scales of back with broad green vertical bar, base and margin helio- 

 trope purple; below level of point of opercle purple, shades fading except on 

 caudal peduncle, and side assumes pale greenish hue, changing to blue on 

 breast with pink wash posteriorly; chin pink, with broad blue, green ended 

 band behind. Front and margin of dorsal and anal and edge of caudal lobes 

 bright blue; body of dorsal orange with green at bases of membranes, color- 

 ing spines and few anterior rays somewhat at base. Caudal purplish, with 

 network of green and blue terminally on outer half; tip in fork dusky orange. 

 Anal body lavender green at base. Ventrals pale bluish green. Pectorals 

 purplish, hyaline below, broad blue bar at base and stripe on upper two rays. 

 Dash of green on opercle and front of pectoral inframarginal. 



A. 1338. Labuan Blanda Island. December 14, 1909. Length, 222 mm. 

 (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, 1 — 1.) 



6073. Little Santa Cruz Island, Zamboanga. May 28, 1908. Length, 251 mm. 

 (Canines, upper, 2 — 2; lower, 2 — 2.) Teeth white. Lips bright blue, upper 

 continued across preorbital and under eye. Lower head tinged blue on median 

 line across throat, breast, and abdomen. General color much faded, probably 

 geranium and blue, with overshades of yellow. Vertical fins margined blue. 

 Dorsal, ventral, and anal blue basally, body of fins reddish. 



5993. Same locality. May 26, 1908. Length, 273 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2 — 1; lower, 1 — 1.) Viridian, bases of scales pale geranium red. Interorbital 

 bluish; slight orange wash on front of chin; lips blue; line extends back under 

 eye, above on snout and preorbital, somewhat orange continued through eye, 

 extended as double stripe behind over postorbital; orange chin band; front of 

 cheek with bluish band downward to throat and then back across chest to 

 ventral out to lower edge of caudal, orange either side of junctions and very 

 obscure along ventral and anal bases, lower edge of interopercle, branchios- 

 tegal membrane and pectoral rays; above bluish green; lower cheek and 

 opercle with more orange areas. Teeth reddish. Dorsal fins with margin 

 and base blue, body obscure orange centrallj' barred Muth green, rest very blue. 

 Edge and tip of caudal blue, body purplish brown, marked with blue basally. 

 Anal front, margin, and last ray blue, body orange with blue shades central. 

 Ventral blue striped with orange. Pectoral blue with obscure double stripe 

 and tip of orange. Iris golden. 



6531 and 6532. Maricaban Island Reef. July 21, 1908. Length, 250 to 260 

 mm. (6531, canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, 1 — 1; 6532, canines, upper, 2 — 1; 

 lower, 1 — 1.) Teeth white; tip of nose bright blue, including lip and pass- 

 ing backward under eye; lower lip blue, drab behind; blue behind again, 

 continued as throat and median ventral line; greenish blotch on interopercle; 

 greenish on upper and front of cheek; top of head with lilac shades in front, 

 merging into olive behind; general body viridian, with geranium bars at bases 

 of scales. Front and margin of dorsal and anal blue; blue at base, body of 

 fin with dusky orange shades, almost obliterated by greenish central bar. 

 Body of anal reddish. Edges of caudal lobes blue, tip within fork blue, body 

 with orange shades; blue at base and crossed by a bar of four round blue 

 spots; lobes with purplish central stripe. Ventral blue, with orange stripe 

 through middle. Pectoral blue, with obscure stripe in upper portion of 

 broken orange shades. 



9357. Murcielagos Bay. August 21, 1909. Length, 249 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2—3; lower, 1 — 1.) 



6352. Port Jamelo. July 13, 1908. Length, 287 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 2; 

 lower, 0—0.) 



7298. Sablayan Bay, Mindanao. December 12, 1908. Length, 260 mm. 



