FISHES OF THE PHHiIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 403 



5318. Cebii market. April 4, 1908. Length, 242 ram. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; 

 lower, — 0.) General color greenish, centers of scales on side and back brown- 

 ish or claret; lips pink; bright green stripe on nose running backward under 

 •eye; lavender stripe above behind eye; top of head in front of eyes green, 

 same behind eyes, with smaU blotch of paler; chin broadly blue, continuing 

 backward mesially; lower head pale greenish, cheek lighter; body yellowish 

 under posterior dorsal. Dorsal front and edge blue, base and last rays same, 

 •centrally reddish with median blue bar. Front and two-thirds of anal distally 

 blue, lavender toward base. Caudal china-blue with dashes of lavender near 

 base. Ventral bluish. Pectoral blue, with narrow purple half-stripe. Blue 

 on belly in two stripes on each side and a median line. Teeth green, edged 

 with pink basally. Iris golden. 



S406. Cebu market. March 19, 1909. Length, 230 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; 

 lower — 0; var. bower si.) 



8156. Cebu market. August 29, 1909. Length, 228 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 1 — 1; lower — 0; var. bowersi). 



7571. Endeavor Strait. December 23, 1908. Length, 320 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) 



€224 and 6226. Galera Bay. June 9, 1908. Length, 233 to 240 mm. (6224, 

 canines, upper, 2 — 2; lower — 0.) Teeth pale green. Lips orange; bright 

 green bands across snout and lower mouth corner; blue spot in chin; throat 

 blue. General body color ochraceous with umber wash, blue green below with 

 broad geranium red bases to scales; greenish stripes in centers of scales in 

 abdominal region. (6226, canines, upper — 1; lower, — 0.) Cheek yellowish 

 green. Teeth very pale pink. Purplish and blue on lower head, bright green 

 above with umber shades on anterior back. 



16247. Same data. Length, 237 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0; var. 

 bowersi.) Teeth pink. Area above pectoral orange. Cheek and head above 

 green, also back and body posteriorly, scales of latter with geranium basal bar. 



'6353. Jamelo Bay. July 13, 1908. Length, 300 mm. Teeth dusky white. 

 Scales of back olive and green with bar of reddish to geranium at base; from 

 middle of side becoming pale. Head dusky pink. Sulphur yellow on side 

 medially under pectoral. Caudal peduncle pink. Lips peach red, green 

 band above upper passes backward below eye obscurely to point of opercle; 

 short green stripe through eye above. Chin and throat band bright blue; 

 blue stripe to mouth corner. Dorsal blue, with broad orange median band. 

 Edges of caudal lobes and fork blue, orange bands and stripes. Pectoral 

 purplish, upper ray blue, dusky hyaline terminally below. Ventral salmon, 

 with pale blue fronts. 

 ■4863. Jolo market. February 13, 1909. Length, 218 mm. (Canines upper, 



2—2; lower, 1—0.) 

 ■ 5164. Jolo market. March 6, 1908. Length, 190 mm. 



13040. Kayoa Island. November 29, 1909. Length, 198 mm, (Canines, 

 upper, 2 — 2; lower, — 0.) 



A. 1337. Labuan Blanda Island. December 14, 1909. Length, 248 mm. 

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



8998. Langao Port, Luzon. June 24, 1909. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0; 

 var. bowersi.) 



5955. Little Santa Cruz Island. May 26, 1908. Length, 228 mm. 

 '6069 to 6072. Little Santa Cruz Island. May 28, 1908. Length, 225 to 239 mm. 

 (6069, canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0; 6072, canines, upper, 2 — 2; lower 

 0—0.) 

 -A. 1079 and A. 1089. Maitara Island. November 26, 1909. Length, 225 to 230 

 mm. (A. 1079, canines, upper, 2 — 2; lower — 0.) 



