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mouth and passes upward to eye; ground color of snout more or less orange; 

 general body color olive brown, reddish at base of scales shows upon fading. 

 Dorsal front and margin slaty; body dusky orange, with row of dusky green 

 blotches through center on membranes, only crossing base of some of soft 

 rays. Caudal similar in general tone to dorsal, also anal, but without green 

 central bar. Paired fins body color; membranes of pectoral hyaline, upper 

 ray darkest. 



A. 667. Sitanki Reef. September 24, 1909. Length, 240 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1 — 1; lower, 2 — 2.) 



7848. Taganak Island. January 7, 1909. Length, 283 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 1—1; lower, 1—1.) 



7961. West Coast of Palaui Island. November 18, 1908. Length, 194 mm. 

 (Canines, upper, 1 — 2; lower, — 0.) Very dark green; scales on side and 

 posteriorly with narrow red bases; ventral surfaces with lilac overshades. 

 Teeth pale greenish. Upper lip bright green; lower lip blue with suggestion 

 of orange edge; blue continuous with green bar across lower cheek to pectoral 

 base; obscure pinkish bar across interopercle and on lower bronchiostegal 

 membranes bounding blue throat line. Front and margin of dorsal, anal, 

 caudal edges, and front of ventrals, also upper pectoral ray, blue; dorsal 

 with body purplish green, posterior half with central bar of interrupted 

 blotches; caudal base purple; anal like dorsal, but paler, green bar almost 

 central from third spine to penultimate ray; last dorsal and anal ray greenish. 

 Pectorals green, with purplish shades. Ventrals similar, but paler. 



57666 U.S.N. M. Japan. P. L. Jouy. 2 examples. Length, 160 to 225 mm. 



CALLYODON MICROCHEILOS (Bleeker) 



Scarus microcheilos Bleeker, Verslag. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 



12, 1861, p. 231. Java. 

 Pseudoscarus microcheilos Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, 



p. 24, pi. 4, fig. 2 (Java). 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2% to 2^, width 2}4 to 2H- Snout 

 2^ to 2}4; eye 73/^ to S}i, 3% to 3^ in snout, 2'^ to 2% in inter- 

 orbital; mouth cleft 43<i to 5% in head; canines small, 2 above 

 each side, none below in our examples; lips narrow, only cover basal 

 third or fourth of teeth; interorbital 3 to 33<^, convex, with slight 

 prominence above small nostrils. Gill rakers 20 + 35, short, weak, 

 flexible, lanceolate. 



Scales in lateral line 17 or 18 + 4 + 2; 2 scales above lateral line, 

 6 below, 4 predorsal; cheek with 3 rows of scales, none on suborbitals 

 or preopercle flange. Scales with 44 to 57 basal radiating striae, 

 apical 42 to 50; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, ninth spine 2% to 3 r^ in head, first ray 2% to 23/5; 

 A. Ill, 9, I, third spine 3% to 4, first ray 2'^i to 33^; caudal 134 to 

 13^, well emarginate behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 23^ to 

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



Largely uniform dark brown, scarcely lighter below. Teeth 

 greenish. Iris yellowish brown. Fins all neutral brown. Dorsals 

 and anals with brown border and median brown or greenish band 

 longitudinally, Ventrals little paler than pectorals. 



