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brane dusky. Soft dorsal blotched with dark. Anal pale brown, 

 with median longitudinal deep brown band, edge and base narrowly 

 dusky. Caudal deep brown, with 5 or 6 deep brownish transverse 

 bands, hind edge narrowly buff. Pectoral pale brown, base deep 

 brown. Ventral dull brown, dusky terminally. 



East Africa to the East Indies, Micronesia, Tahiti, and Hawaii. 

 There is no question but that Calotormis irradians Jenkins is a 

 synonym. 



18677. Cebu market. May 24, 1909. [1467]. Length, 232 mm. General color 

 gray, each scale with reddish basal stripe; stripes above eye orange, none 

 through nostril. Dorsal nearly body-color, with reddish marginal bar and 

 another near base merged in reticulation posteriorly. Three reddish bars on 

 caudal, much broken and diverse. Distinct green shades on head, back, and 

 caudal base. 



18602. Tambul Segambul, Tonquil Island. September 14, 1909. Length, 

 190 mm. 



A795. Zamboanga. October 6, 1909. Length, 280 mm. 



A1366. Basa Island, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 17, 1909. Length, 260 

 mm. Head dusky bottle green, becoming much darker on back, where rather 

 greenish black; margins of scales dark red, on lower side ground color dusky 

 plum purple, rather pale on breast; on throat greenish gray, from eye lines of 

 dusky geranium radiating backward both up and down and two crossing 

 preorbital to corner of mouth; entire snout and top of head with irregular bars 

 of same color covering more area than green (or ground); large spot below 

 corner of mouth and side of chin, smaller dash posterior; irregular spots on 

 lower cheek and upper opercle. Dorsal body color, crossed by dusky red bar 

 at base and another at margin, marginal bar running down rays on soft part 

 of fin joining into network with lower bar in last five or six membranes. Caudal 

 body color, extreme tip white on dusky line, body of fin much reticulated with 

 broad red lines similar to those on rest of body. Anal similar to dorsal, front 

 and margin slaty and colors otherwise brighter than on dorsal. Ventral 

 similar to adjacent body. Pectoral dark body color, becoming hyaline ter- 

 minally, mottled with red obscurely on basal part; iris dusky and brassy, inner 

 portion more or less brown. 



51097 U.S.N.M. Hawaii. Bureau of Fisheries. 1 example. 358 mm. As 

 Calotonius sandivicensis. 



5.5929 U.S.N.M. Jolo. Philippine Commission. 1 example. Length, 255 mm. 



5601 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Philippine Commission. 1 example. Length, 

 220 mm. 



Genus CALLYODON Gronow 



Callyodon Gronow, Mus. Ichth., vol. 2, 1764, p. 8. Species not binomial. 



Type Scarus croicensis 'BLOcn = Calliodon lineatus Schneider, designated 



by Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 16, 1883, p. 606, 

 CaWiodon Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 59. Type Scarus croicensis 



Bloch. 

 Novacula Catesby, Hist. Nat. Carolina, ed. 2, 1771, p. 18. Species not 



binomial. Type Novacula caerulea Catesby = Cory phaena coerulea 



FoRSTER, monotypic. 

 Scarus (not Gronow, 1764) Forskal, Descript. Animal, 1775, p. 25. Type 



Scarus psittacus (not Linnaeus) Forskal, designated by Jordan, Rep. 



U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. 13, 1885 (1887), p. 888. 

 Mormyra Browne, Nat. Hist. Jamaica, ed. 2, 1789, p. 446. Species not 



binomial. Type Mormyra major caerulea Browne = <S'cor«s vetula 



Schneider, designated by Jordan and Evermann, Genera, of Fishes 



vol., 1, 1917, p. 46. 



