FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 413 



A. 693. Si Amil Island. September 26, 1909. Length, 240 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 2 — 2; lower, 1 — 2.) 



9306. Silino Island. August 10, 1909. Length, 277 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2 — 2; lower, 1 — 1.) Teeth white, lips blue, color carried backward under 

 eye and becoming somewhat greenish; general tone of head somewhat lavender 

 or pinkish, similar on abdominal region; blue median ventral line with more 

 or less indistinct stripes of blue on three first scale rows above. Margins of 

 verticals blue; base of dorsal and anal bluish green, body of dorsal dull bluish, 

 rather orange shade next to blue margin and base; anal similar; purplish or 

 orange stripe through ventrals. 



A. 622. Simaluc Island. September 22, 1909. Length, 268 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1 — 2; lower, 1 — 2.) 



7686 and 7690. Ulugan Bay, Palawan Island. December 29, 1908. Length, 

 232 to 250 mm. (7686, canines, upper, 2—3; lower, 1 — 1; 7690, canines, 

 upper, 3 — 3; lower, — 0.) 



8331. Buang Bay, Talijit Island. March 15, 1909. Length, 260 mm. (Ca- 

 nines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, 1 — 1.) Teeth white; lips blue, color continuing as 

 stripe from upper corner of mouth, backward under eye, to edge of preoper- 

 cular limb; head below with pink shades; blue stripe behind chin and blue 

 area on lower edge of interopercle, not quite reaching margin; blue stripe 

 along front and central or median ventral contour; general body color bluish 

 green, scales with broad reddish stripes at base; red predominates below, 

 blue falling into ill defined stripes, two above median. Front and margin 

 of dorsal and anal, and edges of caudal lobes blue; body of dorsal dusky 

 greenish orange, base blue; caudal with purplish shades, becoming more dis- 

 tinctly red in fork except at extreme tip of rays; stripes of lobes not very well 

 defined; anal base blue or greenish, body purplish. Ventrals pale purplish, 

 fronts blue, posterior rays much marked with blue. Pectorals blue, witli 

 purple shades in upper half. 



A. 1045 and A. 1057. Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 24, 1909. 

 Length, 280 to 290 mm. (A. 1057, canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0.) 

 (A. 1045.) Similar in general to Callyodon cyanogrammus but j^ellow of side 

 much clearer and more pronounced, no green bars or orange in scales. Teeth 

 dusky rose, with strong angular teeth; upper lip orange, green stripe above; 

 lower lip very broadly orange, area below corner almost equal to orbit, blue 

 band runs across corner and behind chin inclosing red of lower lip; interopercles 

 and breast and belly with strong orange wash, lower part of cheek and opercle 

 behind with green wash; teeth and middle of opercle more or less dusky rose, 

 green above and behind eye, through upper middle of side (about three rows 

 under lateral line) base of scales with orange or red spot or bar, these become 

 circular in outline on caudal peduncle where yellow fades out continued to pale 

 green or blue; entire dorsal blue except broad median orange band; anal 

 similar, with slightly darker colors; caudal pale green, narrow orange stripe 

 through each lobe and broken bar of orange spots across base; pectoral purple, 

 upper ray with blue shades, dusky superceding the color in distal lower portion, 

 sulphur yellow across base with orange bar over pterygials; ventrals pale orange 

 with blue front; iris golden, striped with green above by the upper green bar 

 which extends forward over anterior nostril. (A. 1057.) Much duller than 

 preceding, purplish wash of back extends to middle of soft dorsal. Caudal 

 peduncle pale green, lines and spots slightly less distinct and rounded. 

 Second row of spots on caudal fin. Yellow tint greenish, narrowly under rim 

 of soft dorsal. 



A. 1056 and 12934. Tidore Island. November 25, 1909. Length, 225 to 

 240 mm. (12934, canines, upper, 2 — 2; lower, 1 — 1.) 



