FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 359 



Back mottled darker than brown of upper surface, below paler. 

 Bases of scales often with dark vertical bands and frequently with 

 dark median vertical line. Back often with vermiculated dark lines, 

 fine and close. Pale lines radiate from eye, except along its lower 

 edge, vermiculated over top of head. Iris dull brown. Often dusky 

 obsolete blotches along middle of side. Pectoral pale brown, other 

 fins all more or less beryl to myrtle green, vertical ones brightest, 

 besides finely mottled, barred or ribbed with lines of deep brown, 

 especially on caudal. Ventral bases neutral, terminally pale beryl. 



Known only from the Philippines and East Indies. Differs from 

 Cheilinus oxycephalus in the variegated or dark ribbed anal, long 

 snout, and greenish soft vertical fins. Interesting at one of the few 

 species of the genus not known to Bleeker. 



16112, 16113, 18791. Bolalo Bay, Palawan Islands. December 21, 1908. Length 



69 to 173 mm. 

 17846 and 17848. Bumbum Island. September 25, 1909. Length, 116 to 140 

 mm. [1998.] Body mottled with gray, brown and whitish, paler below; 

 few brownish lines radiating from eye; top of head and posterior part similar to 

 body; broken end of lateral line with more dark. Dorsal olive, broken infra- 

 marginal band of scarlet, about equal to }/£ breadth of pupil, passes along 

 incised membranes, broad and distinct on first two or three, becoming patchy 

 on last; dark brown spot on first and second membranes near middle; posterior 

 portion of dorsal with hyaline membranes, rays crossed by brown bars. Caudal 

 membranes reticulated with hyaline vermilon, enclosed areas plain hyaline; 

 rays gray with brown spots, perhaps continuation of membrane reticulation. 

 Anal similar to dorsal. Ventrals more or less mottled with dark brown. 

 Pectoral hyaline pink. 

 8370 and 8064. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. April 22, 1908. 

 16666, 16681. Busin Harbor. April 23, 1908. Length, 150 to 190 mm. 

 15180, 15181. Busin Harbor. March 7, 1909. Length, 158 to 162 mm. 

 295, 7103. Busin Harbor. March 8, 1909. Length, 108 to 158 mm. 

 7106, 22781, 22782. Busin Harbor. May 8, 1909. Length, 71 to 112 mm. 

 7856 and 7857. Candaraman Island. January 4, 1909. Length, 112 to 146 mm. 

 21049. Capunuypugan, Mindanao. May 9, 1908. Length, 117 mm. 

 11647. Casogoran, Malhon Island. July 27, 1909. Length, 158 mm. [1706.] 

 Ground color olive gray, becoming greenish on top of head and back; red lines 

 radiating about eye, except on cheek, on which they break into spots; on upper 

 anterior side and back numerous pale specks; belly washed with salmon, 

 side with more or less blackish on scales, which fades; two or three blotches 

 on axial line more or less permanent. Dorsal pale olive gray; submarginal 

 scarlet bar about half diameter of pupil across spinous part, becoming more or 

 less broken on soft fin; black blotch below on first membrane; body of spinous 

 fin with red specks and pale ones similar to those on body, but smaller, reds 

 fusing into more or less irregular black bars posteriorly and on soft fin; on 

 latter show as downward and backward broken bars across almost hyaline 

 posterior portion, color on rays only. Caudal rays bluish, with yellowish 

 green joints, membranes yellowish green with reticulating bar-like network of 

 red. Anal similar to soft dorsal, spinous membranes with reddish network; 

 two brown blotches on bases of soft rays, crossbars more or less brownish on 

 rays and red on membranes. Ventrals dusky orange and gray. Pectorals 

 hyaline, with pinkish shade. Chin and throat unmarked. 



