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8190. Port Busin, Burias Island. March S, 1909. Length, 310 mm. 



8384. Port Dupon, Leyte Island. March 17, 1909. Length, 218 mm. Pale 

 gray and greenish shades; white on lower head and belly, with slight pink 

 wash; teeth white; no marks or bars apparent on body, possibly having faded; 

 dorsal very pale hyaline straw, front and margin of central band pale lilac; 

 caudal yellowish, edges of lobes and tip within fork lilac; anal pale straw, 

 front and margin whitish lilac; ventrals pale, fronts slight lilac shade; pec- 

 torals hyaline straw, first raj' slightly bluish. 



8772 and 8773. Quinalasag Island. June 12, 1909. Length, 285 to 287 mm. 



5277. Romblon Harbor. March 25, 1908. Length, 269 mm. Gray with 

 greenish mottlings and stripes on centers of scales, brownish at base on sheath; 

 below washed with rosy; caudal peduncle posteriorly with sulphur yellow 

 wash; top of head dusky olive; chin rosy; short reddish stripe in corner of 

 mouth above, greenish below; teeth white. Dorsal edged with blue, body of 

 fin orange; greenish central obscure bar. Caudal greenish yellow, edged with 

 purplish and tipped in fork with hyaline and dusky. Anal margined with 

 purplish, body of fin orange anteriorly, with purplish central bar; purplish at 

 base of membranes. Ventral rosy, somewhat mottled with more intense color, 

 purplish on front. Pectoral hyaline below to pale yellow above, upper rays 

 green and purplish on basal portion. Opercle margined with dull orange. 

 Iris golden. 



7321. Sablayan Bay, Mindoro. December 12, 1908. Length, 391 mm. (Ca- 

 nines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0.) 



15758. Sacol Island. September 9, 1909. Length, 178 mm. 



A. 648. Simaluc Sibi Sibi Island. September 23, 1909. Length, 334 mm. 



A. 600 and A. 601. Singaan Island. September 21, 1909. Length, 393 to 400 

 mm. (A. 600, canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0; A. 601, canines, upper, 

 2—1; lower, 0—0.) 



A. 451 and A. 452. Tulnalutan Island. September 9, 1909. Length, 479 to 508 

 mm. (A. 451, canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0; A. 452, canines, upper, 

 2—1; lower, 0—0.) 



A. 1115. Ternate market. November 26, 1909. Length, 369 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, — 1; lower, — 0.) 



30590 U. S. N. M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. 1 example. Length, 

 135 mm. 



30621 U. S. N. M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. 1 example. Length, 

 190 mm. 



CALLYODON PULCHELLUS (Ruppell) 



Scarus pulchellus Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 25, pi. 8, fig. 3. 



Djedda, Red Sea. 

 Pseudoscarus pulchellus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nderl., vol. 1, 1862, 



p. 34, pi. 10, fig. 3 (Java, Celebes). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 



4, 1862, p. 219 (Mauritius, China). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. 



Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 559 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., 



vol. 1, 1895, p. 558 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). — Gijnther, Journ. Mus. 



Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 305 (Pelew Islands and Ponape). 

 Pseudoscarus pulchellus var. bicolor (not RtJppELL) Klunzinger, Verh. zool. 



bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 560 (part). 

 Pseudoscarus bicolor (not RtJppELL) Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 



1913, p. 384 (part). 



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

 IJ4 to Ij^; eye 83^ to 8^ 5 in snout, 2}i to 2% in interorbital ; 

 mouth cleft 3% to 3%; Hps completely cover teeth; no canines; 



