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5537. Cataingan Bay. April 18, 1908. Length, 187 mm. (Canines, upper, — 1; 

 lower, — 0.) Teeth white rosj'^ at base; back emerald, with heliotrope 

 vertical bars on scales; lower head and body heliotrope to lavender; lips 

 bright blue; cheek with dusky yellowish area bordered by green. 

 8024. Capulaan Bay, Pagbilao Island. February 24, 1909. Length 202 mm. 

 (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) Yellowish green cheek, distinctly colored 

 or clear, including base of pectoral; anterior body — that is, shoulder region — 

 more or less orange. 

 5967. Little Santa Cruz Island. May 26, 1908. Length, 282 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) Cheek yellowish green. Teeth dusky white. 

 Lips narrowly orange, blue stripes posterior. 

 6075. Little Santa Cruz Island, Zamboanga. May 28, 1908. Length 300 mm. 

 (Canines, upper, 1 — 2; lower, — 0.) Greenish yellow on cheek. Teeth 

 almost white. Lips blue, upper with pale pink margin. 

 6144. Mansalay. June 4, 1908. Length, 310 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; 



lower, — 0.) Cheek yellowish green. 

 5557. Masbate Reef, Masbate Island. April 20, 1908. Length, 300 mm. 

 (Canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0.) Cheeks yellowish green. Lower surface 

 lavender. Teeth with greenish edges, bases rosy. 

 6225. Medio Island, Galera Bay, Mindoro. June 9, 1908. Length 247 mm. 



(Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) 

 5432, 5433, 5435. Off Bohol. April 8, 1908. Length, 313 to 323 mm. (5432, 

 canines, upper, — 1; lower, — 0; 5433, canines, upper, 1 — 0; lower — 0.) 

 Teeth pale greenish. Light blue, upper reddish at corner. Lower head and 

 breast lavender. Cheeks yellowish green, blotch crossing opercle bordered 

 by bright green. General body color green and red. 

 4874. Pangasinan Island. February 13, 1908. Length, 270 mm. (Canines, up- 

 per 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) General color emerald green, bases of scales with ver- 

 tical light red bars; back under front of dorsal somewhat lighter. Rhomboidal 

 area of pale across cheek and lower part of opercle, bordered by green line 

 about breadth of pupil which continued along lower lip from corner of mouth, 

 expanding on median part of chin and prolonged backward on sublingual 

 region to edge of branchiostegal membrane. Another spatulate line from 

 lower corner of rhomboidal area obliquely downward, not quite meeting 

 other blue of chin. Line of similar color through upper part of eye, and another 

 along upper lip. Top of head of about same color as markings. Dorsal fin 

 blue green, with two orange brown bars across entire breadth, two joining at 

 either end around central green bar. Caudal bright blue green, with narrow 

 orange brown stripe on each lobe. Ventral similar to dorsal but with single 

 narrow orange brown bar. Ventral green on edges, pale central area probably 

 light reddish. Pectoral green, with pale red or pink stripe through upper 

 half; base pale, somewhat continuation of pale area on side of head, with 

 greenish bar beneath. Teeth very pale green near margip, reddish near lips. 

 5909. Parang. May 23, 1908. Length, 298 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 2; 

 lower, — 0.) Teeth greenish. Cheek yellowish green. Lips very narrowly 

 orange washed with green. 

 5890. PoUoc. May 22, 1908. Length, 245 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, 



0—0.) 

 12055. Port Banalacan, Marinduque Island. February 23, 1909. Length, 



194 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) 

 8385. Port Dupon, Leyte Island. May 17, 1909. Length, 250 mm. (Canines, 



upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0.) 

 6526. Port Maricaban. July 21, 1908. Length, 326 mm. 

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