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narrowing to little less below and reaching front of anal base. Other- 

 wise entire lower surface of head, trunk, and rest of tail, brown. 

 Iris yellowish. Teeth whitish. Dorsals grayish, with brown margin 

 and median olive longitudinal streak. Anals grayish, with broad 

 brown lower edge. Caudal grayish, with 3 transverse dull olive 

 bands. Paired fins dull brown, with dusky spot at pectoral origin. 



Zanzibar, East Indies, Philippines, Japan, Micronesia, Melanesia, 

 Polynesia. 



Young examples with body more or less uniform brown and traces 

 of five vertical obscure, saddlelike blotches along side. 



9622, 9624. Agojo Point, Catanduanes Island. June 10, 1909. [1634,1635.] 

 Length, 206 to 217 mm. (9622, canines, upper, 2—1; lower, 0—0.) Teeth 

 dusky white; lips, blue; nose and chin, orange, with green bands; yellow 

 saddles on back; dorsal and anal with blue front and margin; body of fin 

 orange red with central green band broken into round blotches posteriorly; 

 caudal lobes blue edged, body reddish orange, green bar at base, and broken 

 green bar through center. 



11096, 11100, 16368. Agojo Point. Length, 155 to 220 mm. (11096, pre- 

 opercle scales, — 1; 16368, canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) 



8914. Atulayan Island. June 18, 1909. Length, 264 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2—2; lower, 0—1.) 



8793, 19184, 19187. Butauanan Island. June 12, 1909. Length, 192 to 240 

 mm. (8793, canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, 1 — 1; 19187, preopercle scales, — 1.) 



9944. Biri Channel. June 1, 1909. Length, 211 mm. [1566.] (Canines, 

 upper, — 1; lower, — 0.) Olive gray; margins of scales brownish; teeth 

 white; front of head with more or less red shades; band across nose passing 

 backward under eye olivaceous; lower lip and chin stripe slightly olive; 

 front and margin of dorsal and anal slaty; body of dorsal dull reddish, with 

 large olive green blotches in centers of membranes; anal somewhat reddish, 

 with obscure greenish median bar; caudal reddish, with two obscure bars near 

 base; paired fins about same as body color. 



8650. Biri Channel, Balicuatro Island. June 2, 1909. Length, 263 mm. 

 (Canines, upper, 2 — 2; lower, 1 — 2.) Bright verdigris green band across tip 

 of snout and backward through eye to upper angle of gill opening, on level 

 and backward to middle of body line separates the anterior half into a 

 greenish region above and purplish one below; through middle of side purplish 

 bar from dorsal to front of anal, behind green bar of about two scales width, 

 thence purplish again; in life purplish appears much darker, almost black; 

 upper anterior portion of body and top of head showing very pale in contrast. 

 Teeth dusky, scarcely greenish; lips narrowly blue; blue throat line continued 

 backward to vent; dash of green in front of opercle and stripe along center of 

 same. Vertical fins blue edged, anal and dorsal with blue central bar, body 

 of fins purplish; two or three broken greenish bands across purple of caudal; 

 fronts and last two rays of ventrals blue, body of fin purplish; pectorals hyaline 

 purplish, without distinct stripes, base somewhat greenish. 



8644 and 8645. Biri Channel, Balicuatro Island. June 2, 1909. Length, 263 

 to 273 mm. (8644, canines, upper, 2 — 0; lower — 0; 8645, canines, upper, 

 3 — 0; lower, — 0.) Teeth white, with slight bluish shade; general shades 

 verdigris, margins of scales with geranium pink or purplish; head generally 

 suffused with reddish; lips blue or greenish; green band across snout, passing 



