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Depth 3H to 33^; head 2% to 3K, width 2}4 to 2^. Snout 



3 to 33^^; eye 4^4 to 63/^, 13^ to 13-^ in snout, 1 to 13/^ in interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches % to eye, 3^ to 3% in head; single posterior 

 canine above each side directed forward; interorbital broadly convex, 



4 to 4)4 in head. Gill rakers 6 + 11, lanceolate, short. 



Scales in lateral line 37 to 44, 8 to 14 + 2; 6 scales above lateral line, 

 18 or 19 below, 12 to 14 predorsal. Scales with 21 or 22 basal and 

 marginal striae; feeble apical striae 14 or 15; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 11, I, ninth spine 2}^ to 23^ in head, first ray 2 to 23^; 

 A. Ill, 11, I, third spine 3^ to 3^, first ray 23^ to 2%; caudal 1^ 

 to 1}4, truncate, convex behind as expanded; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 1^ to 23^; pectoral 13^ to 1%; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Back pale brown, lower sides and under surface whitish, or each 

 scale with light gray to whitish spot. Head with 4 or 5 grayish 

 oblique variable bands, often broken or irregular; neutral slaty 

 blotch close behind eye, but little larger than pupil. On back 6 deep 

 brown vertical bars or short bands, extending but little below lateral 

 line; alternating parallel white vertical line, also not continued lower, 

 but giving place to short deep brown bar. Fins all pale. Grayish 

 median longitudinal band on spinous dorsal and on front of soft dorsal; 

 over 2 membranes sometimes forming blackish ocellus; first membrane 

 of spinous dorsal with blackish blotch. Anal grayish white, with 

 median and basal longitudinal band. At pectoral base small blackish 

 blotch streaked down obliquely across base of fin. 



Red Sea to the East Indies and Philippines. Riippell's figure 

 shows the dark postocular bar, the dorsal ocelli small and the trans- 

 verse white lines on the back, though the broader alternate dark ones 

 are absent. Bleeker's figure on the contrary fails to indicate the 

 postocular bar or the white transverse lines on the back. One of our 

 examples shows most of the scales on the side of the abdomen 

 each largely deep brown. Bleeker had but 2 examples and those from 

 Amboina. 



11288. Alimango Bay, Burias Island. March 5, 1909. Length, 127 mm. 

 21127 and 21129. Biri Channel, Balicuatro Island. June 2, 1909. [1568.] 

 Pale green, becoming paler below to gray washed with pink. On sides and 

 back obscure broad stripes and bars of purplish, probably distinct in life. 

 Dorsal greenish, margin vermilion, except on soft fin, extreme margin of which 

 hyaline; irregular central bar of reddish; purplish or blackish blotch across 

 middle of second soft ray; yellow above and below. Caudal yellowish green, 

 with two irregular pinkish bars. Anal similar to soft dorsal but paler. Ven- 

 trals hyaline pink and pectorals dusky hyaline, blackish bar across base with 

 yellow at bases of rays. 

 14808. Bugsuk Island, Balabac. January 5, 1909. Length, 123 mm. 

 19647. Bulan Island, Samales Group. September 13, 1909. Length, 120 mm. 

 7245 to 7247. Busbus Point, Siasi Island. September 20, 1909. Length, 94 to 



140 mm. 

 10699. Cataingan Bay, Masbate. April 19, 1908. Length, 138 mm. 

 18682. Cebu market. March 24, 1909. Length, 164 mm. 

 15466. Galera Bay, Mindoro. June 9, 1908. Length, 119 mm. 

 13997. Gondra Island. September 20, 1909. Length, 144 mm. 



