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From upper hind eye edge oblique greenish narrow loup toward 

 suprascapula. Dorsals pale grayish brown, margin narrowly brown- 

 ish and median dark longitudinal band. Anals pale greenish gray, 

 with median whitish longitudinal band. Caudal brown, with grayish 

 longitudinal streak on upper and another on median lower caudal 

 rays. Pectoral brown, with median upper rays gray to deep brown. 

 Ventral brown. 



East Indies, Philippines, Melanesia, Micronesia. 



8124, 8125, 8157. Alibijaban Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 6, 1909. Length 

 228 to 243 mm. (8124, canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0; 8125, canines, 

 upper, 1 — 1; lower, 0-0; 8157, canines, upper, 1 — 2; lower, — 0.) Teeth pale 

 greenish; lips blue with borders very narrowly pink; middle of top of head 

 emerald green; subocular region and snout above blue of lip with purplish 

 shade; bright green bar through upper eye and dash behind lower portion; blue 

 of lower lip merges backward from corner of mouth into green border about 

 rectangular pale bufif area, covering cheek and lower opercular region; anterior 

 back, except median portion, which is emerald green along base of dorsal, 

 more or less drab, behind back and sides viridian with broad magenta bar at 

 base of each scale; lower head and belly with lilac shades, continued along base 

 of anal and base of caudal. Front and margin of dorsal and anal blue; body of 

 dorsal from orange to dull geranium, latter color below; median bar of green and 

 four colors of about equal breadth; base of entire fin greenish, including last 

 ray. Caudal bright green, narrow purplish lavender stripe through each lobe. 

 Base of anal broadly green, median stripe of magenta or purplish. Front of 

 ventrals blue, with greenish shades on hinder portion; middle three rays very 

 pale purple, last bluish. Pectoral bluish green, well-defined purplish stripe 

 through upper half. 



5621. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. April 22, 1908. Length, 297 mm. (Ca- 

 nines; upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) Back and side bright grass green, each scale 

 with vertical bar of mauve, which color covers region above anal base; belly, 

 breast, base of caudal peduncle royal purple; region between pectoral, eye, and 

 dorsal base bright cinnamon rufous; very light green area from corner of mouth 

 backward to edge of opercle and to pectoral base, color extending to lower edge 

 of eye and obliquely but straight backward below; same area margined with 

 greenish blue; lower part of head lilac, bluish median line; top of head and snout 

 parrot green, large purple blotch over eye, before and behind; broad mauve 

 or phlox band from lower eye to corner of mouth; upper lip score's blue, with 

 cobalt blue posterior margin; lower lip score's blue and lateral blotch of same 

 color on either side of median line behind tip, but not meeting below. Iris 

 dark blue externally, then yellow, then hazel. Dorsal with broad caerulean blue 

 marginal band extending to base of first ray, below wider coral red band, then 

 broad grass green band from second to penultimate membrane and finally broad 

 rose pink band along base becoming coral red anteriorly and joining second 

 band; posteriorly green of back extends on dorsal base, includes all of last ray 

 and most of last membrane. Caudal viridian green, lighter basally, hind 

 margin caerulean blue, also edges of lobes; broad royal purple bars extend into 

 fin from base and nearly reach hind edge near upper and lower edges. Anal 

 emerald or light viridian green at basal half, broad marginal zone of score's blue 

 with narrow geranium stripe between, blue and geranium extending to base of 

 first membrane. Ventral with front edge broadly bright glaucous, rest faintly 

 rose purple and lilac. Pectoral bright greenish blue, membranes hyaline; 

 large elongated submarginal rose pink spot, involving third ray and mem- 

 brane; base light rice green. Lower jaw, chin, and throat like upper lip. 



