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ground and buff carried as vermiculating lines, becoming dull chrome and 

 breaking into round spots below; thick lips greenish, with many bars and spots 

 of orange. Dorsal with ground reddish brown, becoming slaty on posterior 

 part, numerously marked with silvery green dots and short bars, in form of 

 short wavy bars on hind part. Caudal like soft dorsal, edge tipped lemon 

 yellow. Anal like soft dorsal. Ventral olive, yellowish wash on membranes. 

 Pectoral ohve green, tip hyaline. 



1876. Cebu. August 31, 1909. Olive above, shading to yellowish green below. 

 Scales with dark brown blotch at base, forming more or less irregular mottling 

 over side; paler brown dashes and spots on mandible and side of head; dark 

 brown lines through eye. Spinous dorsal and base of soft fin similar to ad- 

 jacent body color; soft dorsal terminally very pale hyaline orange. Caudal 

 yellow at tip, body or fin with dark brown recticulations enclosing olive ground. 

 Anal like dorsal, but without yellow edge. Ventrals yellowish, obscurely 

 mottled at base. Pectorals hyaline pink. 



4895. Biri Channel. June 1, 1909. Length, 150 mm. 



7470 and 7471. Bolalo Bay. December 21, 1908. Length, 248 to 310 mm. 



7817. Bugsuk Island. January 5, 1909. Length, 247 mm. 



17698. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. March 8, 1909. Length, 184 mm. 



7853. Candaraman Island, Balabac. January 4, 1909. Length, 172 mm. 



5392. Cebu market. April 7, 1909. Length, 168 mm. 



6095. Cebu market. August 12, 1909. Length, 115 mm. 



18805. Cebu market. August 21, 1909. Length, 113 mm. [1876.] 



7562. Endeavor Strait. December 23, 1908. Length, 340 mm. 



13064 and 13289. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length, 115 to 155 mm. 



5330. Jolo reefs. March 6, 1908. Length, 250 mm. 



8587. Matnog Bay, Luzon. May 31, 1909. Length, 265 mm. 



6281. Medio Island, Mindoro. June 9, 1908. Length, 368 mm. 



9302. Murcielagos Bay. August 9, 1909. Length, 322 mm. 



7761. Port Ciego, Balabac. January 3, 1909. Length, 282 mm. 



7315. Sablayan Bay, Mindoro. December 12, 1908. Length, 460 mm. 



5583. San Miguel Harbor, Ticao Island. April 21, 1908. Length, 310 mm. 



4957. Tataan Island, Tawi Tawi Group. February 21, 1908. Length, 673 mm. 



7676. Ulugan Bay, Palawan. December 28, 1908. Length, 365 mm. 



7709. Ulugan Bay, Oyster Inlet. December 29, 1908. Length, 327 mm. 



52487 U.S.N. M. Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. 1 example. Length, 305 mm. 



65800 U.S.N.M. Tari Tari, Gilbert Islands. Albatross collection. 1 example. 

 Length, 250 mm. 



65801 U.S.N.M. Rangiroa, Paumotu Islands. Albatross collection. 1 exam- 

 ple. Length, 435 mm. 



CHEILINUS DIAGRAMMUS (Lacepede) 



Labrus digrammus LAc:6pi;DE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 448, 518. 

 Great Equatorial Ocean (Indo-Pacific). 



Cheilinus diagrammus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 16, 1839, p. 98 

 (East Indies, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, New Guinea). — Guiche- 

 NOT, Notes I. Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 28. — Jordan and Richardson, 

 Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 267 (Romblon).— Snyder, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 508 (Okinawa). 



Cheilinus diagramma Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Cherbourg, ser. 2, 

 vol. 2, 1866, p. 147 (Madagascar). 



Cheilinus diagramma Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, vol. 2, 

 1904, p. 539 (Padang). 



Cheilinus commersonii Bennett, Proc. Comin. Zool. Soc, vol. 1, 1831, p. 167. 

 Mauritius. 



