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posterior canine each side above and directed forward; interorbital 

 5^8 to 5j4, slightly convex. Gill rakers 5+11, lanceolate, short. 



Scales in lateral line 40 or 41, 9 or 10 + 2 or 3; 6 scales above lateral 

 line, 20 below, 12 predorsal. Scales with 21 to 26 basal radiating 

 striae, 18 to 31 obsolete apically; circuli fine. 



D. IX, 11, I or 12, I, first spine 3% to 4 3^ in head, first ray 2^ 

 to 2^; A. Ill, 12, I, third spine 4 to 4%, first ray 2% to 3; caudal 

 l^s to 1%, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 23^^ to 

 2/^; pectoral 13^ to 1^; ventral 1% to 1^^. 



Pale brown generally. Upper surface of head neutral brown and 

 body with 6 broad transverse deep brown bands, separated by very 

 narrow pale interspaces, and each band above with pale brown spot 

 or vertical bar. Grayish longitudinal band from opercle midway 

 along side to hind section of lateral line; another parallel from 

 below eye to pectoral, then back above front of anal, where it ends 

 in neutral gray blotch; third along lower side of head, sometimes 

 interrupted as 2 parallel oblique short bands extend down from 

 pectoral axil and then continue back till opposite vent. Ends of first 

 2 dorsal membranes white, rest neutral dusky; dorsals largely 

 brownish, with darker brown streaks up basally from saddles of back, 

 and submarginal outer brown line with upper posterior portions of 

 fins grayish mottled with brown. Anals pale brown, with 4 longi- 

 tudinal parallel lines along outer half of fin, and usually pale gray 

 spots basally on fin. Caudal pale brown with oblique brown lines 

 across each corner and middle of fin with waved transverse vertical 

 lines. Paired fins pale brownish, neutral blue spot at pectoral axil. 

 Iris brownish. 



Red Sea to Melanesia, Not previously reported from the Phil- 

 ippines. 



5582. Jolo market, Jolo. February 8, 1908. Length, 148 mm. 



11914. Jolo market. February 11, 1908. Length, 180 mm. [76.] Upper 

 third of side dark bluish green, lower two-third pinkish purple. A reddish 

 yellow area under pectoral, 2 bright purplish areas on side behind vent. Six 

 or 7 irregular narrow yellowish green transverse bars on back and sides. 

 Dorsal base purplish green with yellowish green spots where bands from back 

 emerge; outer half of fin dark olive green, the margin strawberry pink. An 

 orange yellow spot on outer margin of first and second membrane. Caudal 

 light greenish yellow with 6 dull red spots centrally; semicircular area of brick- 

 dust red extending from peduncle to posterior margin, leaving tips of lobes 

 green, red area margined with narrow purple line on lobe, dull olive green ter- 

 minally. Vent pale greenish, the produced part red. Pectoral greenish-yellow. 



7156 and 14297. Teomabal Island. September 18, 1908, Length, 150 to 156 

 mm, 



4333. Vicinity of Jolo Island, Length, 123 mm. [1953.] Dr. 5558. 



CORIS PHILIPPINA, new species 



Depth 4 to 4:}4; head 3^ to 3%, width 2%. Snout 3^ to 4; 

 eye 5}4 to 5)^, 13^ to IJ^ in snout, IJ^ to 13^ in interorbital; max- 



