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edges of dorsals and anals with grayish margins whole extent. Now 

 no trace of yellow line back from rictus and 2 or 3 from hind eye 

 edge, or the dark gray median longitudinal line on both dorsals and 

 anals, as shown in Rlippell's figure. 



Red Sea, Mauritius, India, East Indies, Micronesia, Polynesia. 



8941 and 8942. Between Paron and Jesus Points, Albay Gulf, Luzon. June 2, 

 1909. Length, 370 to 420 mm. 



8625, 8629. Biri Channel. June 1, 1909. Length, 290 to 340 mm. 



8657. Biri Channel. June 22, 1909. Length, 344 mm. 



8798. Butauanan Island. June 12, 1909. Length, 267 mm. 



7768. Candaraman Island. January 4, 1908. April 17, 1908. Length, 287 mm. 

 General color dusky pink, perhaps much faded; head apparently darkest; 

 lower head and breast rather brighter red; teeth dusky rose; dorsal and anal 

 with obscure or no bars, apparently ill-defined bar through center of each, 

 possibly another near margin; caudal peduncle and caudal fin yellowish; 

 paired fins plain. 



5379. Cebu Market. April 6, 1908. Length, 177 mm. General color of side 

 pearly to rose, becoming pale with yellowish wash below; head ~v\dth orange 

 shades; from nape around edge of opercle and below base of pectoral irregular 

 seal brown spots; narrow lines of seal brown across interorbital from front of 

 eye down to preorbital, to front of cheek, broken across interorbital region; 

 head in front of this more yellow than orange, behind more orange; lips yellow- 

 ish; teeth rosy at base, tubercles white; breast washed with orange. Dorsal 

 dusky rose, somewhat more dusky on upper edge, tips of rays white; large 

 blotch on the 3d to 7th spines, center black, edge irregularly orange covering 

 most of depth of fin. Caudal body color clouded with orange near edges of 

 lobes, tip whitish. Anal sulphur yellow, ventral same. Pectoral hyaline 

 orange. Iris orange red. 



8760. Lahuy Island. June 11, 1909. Length, 390 mm. 



8846. Maculabo Island. June 14, 1909. Length, 520 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2—2; lower, 0—0.) 



9088. Malhon Island. July 27, 1909. Length, 375 mm. 



6135 and 6136. Mansalay. June 4, 1908. Length, 475 to 495 mm. (Both 

 have canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) Teeth white. Dusky green on back, 

 becoming whitish with traces of purple and smoke below; margins of scales 

 broadly pale orange; caudal peduncle yellowish green above on sides; top of 

 head dark olive, with purplish shades, becoming purple on snout; upper lip 

 broadly orange, running back above corner of mouth; side of head smoky 

 purplish, with orange shades about eye; dull smoky greenish stripe just be- 

 hind eye; chin yellow, becoming yellowish buff on throat and interopercle; 

 dull orange lower border on opercle. Dorsal front and margin slaty, spines 

 purplish gray and membranes orange; fin posteriorly mainly orange, much 

 mottled with roundish spots of purplish. Caudal yellowish olive, with red 

 and purple shades. Anal orange, with series of translucent and purplish 

 blotches through center, and with front and margin of similar shades. Ventral 

 pale, with orange wash, upper ray of pectoral purplish, upper half of fin below 

 orange with geranium pink shades basally; lower half hyaline with dusky 

 purplish orange shades. Iris golden. 



9268 to 9270. Murcielagos Bay. August 9, 1909. Length, 375 to 412 mm. 

 (9268, canines, upper, 3 — 3; lower, — 0; 9270, canines, upper, 3 — 3; lower, 

 0—0.) 



S877. Near Palag Bay, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length, 267 mm. 



