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12646. Port Palapag, near northern Samar. June 3, 1909. (Canines, upper, 

 1 — 1; lower, — [1583.].) Teeth dusky; head with bluish stripes and bands 

 on slightly reddish ground, top of head mottled; general body color dusky, 

 with margins of scales more reddish; dorsal and anal fronts and margins slaty, 

 bodies reddish with distinct slaty band through upper portion of lower half and 

 more obscure row of dots or spots through outer half; caudal rays reddish, 

 membranes slaty. 



50S0, 5801, 5806 "to 5807. Pujada Bay. May 15, 1908. Length, 182 to 227 

 mm. (5801, 5807 to 5809, all with canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0; 5806, 

 canines, upper, 1 — 0; lower, — 0.) Centers of scales on back dark green, with 

 oUve shades; heliotrope purple bar at base; lower portions, breast, and belly 

 heliotrope purple; lower head similar, but with more red; teeth white on edge, 

 base reddish; lips narrowly dull scarlet, narrow an twerp blue line above, and 

 lighter blue below, continued backward as median throat line; short bar in 

 front of interopercle not reaching margin; lip color extending upward as pre- 

 orbital bar, passing under eye and suffusing upper portion of opercle; reddish 

 shades above eye in front and behind; top of head dark green; preorbital line 

 bordered on either side by dark green; cheek and opercle below greenish brown. 

 Dorsal front and margin slaty, base and last ray green; body of fin dull orange, 

 becoming purplish posteriorly below; central bar dull green. Caudal greenish, 

 lobes with purple. Anal front and margin slaty, base green; centrally reddish 

 heliotrope. Ventral reddish heliotrope, fronts slaty blue. Pectoral dull 

 olive, upper ray slaty and with stripe of red through upper half. Iris golden. 



7497, 7500, 7502 to 7505. Pujada Bay, Mindanao. May 15, 1908. (7500, 

 canines, upper, — 1; lower, — 0; 7502, canines, upper, 2—1; lower, 0—0.) 

 [626, 629 to 632.] 



10745 to 10747, 21352. Quinalasag Island, Masamat Bay. June 12, 1909. 

 Length, 158 to 191 mm. (10745, canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0; 10747, 

 canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) 



12598 and 13282. Rapurapu Island. June 22, 1909. Length 174 to 180 mm. 

 (12598, canines, upper, 1—1; lower, — 0; 13282, canines, upper, 1—2; lower, 

 0—0.) 



5282, 5284 to 5286. Romblon. March 25, 1908. Length, 197 to 259 mm. 

 (5282, canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0; 5284 and 5285, with canines, upper, 

 1 — 1; lower, 0—0.) [5282, 5285, 5286.] Smoky hooker green above, irregu- 

 larly barred with about four darker areas on side; scales with dusky claret bar 

 at base; lower portions with pale claret wash; top of head uniform dusky green; 

 lips orange red; teeth same color, but paler; band of slaty across nose behind 

 lip and behind lower lip on chin; second broken band of same color on chin 

 and longitudinally along to isthmus; obscure orange line from eye downward 

 to corner of mouth. Dorsal tipped with slate, centrally dusky green, same as 

 back; front and submarginal bar of dusky orange; basal bar of dusky vermilion. 

 Caudal narrowly tipped with white and black line; membranes greenish, as 

 body; rays dull purplish claret. Anal front and margin slaty, basally blackish 

 green; main portion centrally dusky flesh, approaching vermilion, mottled 

 with blackish; vertical fins similar to central portion of anal, front and 

 margins of ventrals blackish. Top of pectoral same distally and below be- 

 coming hyaline. Iris golden. [5284.] Dusky green above, vinaceous below; 

 scales with dusky claret vertical bar at base on sides; sides more or less blotched 

 and barred with darker; fins with claret shades, paired fins brightest; teeth 

 pink, cutting edge white; lips geranium pink; chin band slaty blue; no other 

 marked stripes on head; iris golden; soft anal and dorsal narrowly margined 

 with dusky; front of ventral same. 



