388 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



17866. Buang Bay, Talajit Island. March 15, 1909. Length, 196 mm. [1365.] 



22180. Bubuan Island, Jolo. February 14, 1908. Length, 116 mm. 



5657, 5660, and 5661. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. April 22, 1908. Length, 

 213 to 242 mm. (5657, canines, upper 2 — 2; lower — 0; 5660, canines, 

 upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0; 5661, canines, upper, 1 — 0; lower — 0.) Very 

 dark olive; teeth pale ros}^ edges dusky; lips narrowly red; slaty band behind 

 lower lip, sometimes interrupted; lower head and breast pale claret brown; 

 slaty bar across front of interopercle; no throat stripe; dorsal uniform claret, 

 dusky-green shades of front and margin narrowly darker; caudal similar; 

 anal similar; paired fins pale claret brown; front of ventral slightly slaty; iris 

 golden; side after fading becomes gray, each scale showing broad vertical claret 

 bar at base. 



5602 and 5603. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. April 22, 1908. Length, 141 to 

 162 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) Scales grayish, perhaps from 

 fading; scales with fairly broad vertical bars of brownish or claret; teeth 

 dusky at edges, rosy at bases, lips reddish, full gray band behind lower lip on 

 chin, followed by another band of reddish to corner of mouth; dorsal very 

 dull orange, front and edge dark, narrowly with obscure greenish band through 

 center; caudal rays more or less orange, membranes slightly dusky; anal 

 similar to dorsal but darker, slaty at base; paired fins more or less orange; 

 ventral tipped with blackish, slaty front; pectoral more or less hyaline below, 

 upper ray dusky; iris golden. 



5604. Same data. Length 172 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) 

 Gray; claret shades appearing rather as an edging about scales; teeth similar 

 to 5602 and 5606; Hps narrowly orange; .slaty gray band behind lower lip, with 

 red band behind somewhat interrupted, central portion appearing as roundish 

 spot within backward projection of graj' band; gray and reddish behind as in 

 5605; fins similar to 5602 and 5603. 



5605. Same data. Length, 168 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1 ; lower, — 0.) Sim- 

 ilar to 5602 and 5603, but reddish bars on scales slightly broader. 



5606. Same data. Length, 218 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower — 0.) 

 Reddish bars on scales less pronounced. Edges of teeth dusky, bases rosy; 

 lips reddish, projection from lower backw^ard on chin (in 5605 reaches second 

 reddish chin band, thus interrupting slaty chin band) ; in 5606 slaty chin band 

 curves backward around projection interrupting red band; in both second 

 slaty band downward from cheek and suffusing with reddish behind on inter- 

 opercle. Dorsal orange, front and margin dark; more or less double band of 

 greenish across body of fin; not marked in 5605. Caudal dusky on tip; rays 

 in 5606 orange, little marked in 5605. Anal similar to dorsal, with more of 

 greenish at base. Pectoral more or less orange dusky around tips, duskiness 

 marked in 5605; upper portion of pectoral orange, dusky below; first ray 

 blackish. Iris golden, with some greenish above orbit. 



5607 to 5609. Same data. Length, 182 to 227 mm. (Canines in all, upper, 

 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) Darker than preceding, claret shades in 5607 and 5608 

 appearing as bars; in 5609 rather as scale edges. Teeth dusky at edge, rosy 

 basally. Lips very narrowly reddish; gray chin band, second red band pos- 

 teriorly; in 5609 gray band interrupted by red crossbar between Up and red 

 band. Dorsal more or less orange, with dusky front in 5607; margin and central 

 band greenish; in 5608 dorsal largely uniform body-color or more reddish; 

 in 5609 ground color of fin similar to 5608 but with 2 narrow bands through 

 body. Anal like dorsal in 5609; Hkewise 5608 and 5607. Caudal with orange 

 shade on rays. Paired fins more or less like body color, upper portion of former 

 more orange and top ray blackish. Iris golden in all. 



