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8329. Buang Bay, Talajit Island. March 15, 1909. Length, 290 mm. Lips 

 blue, upper edge pink. Snout smoky purple, band extending through eye to 

 opercle angle; under smoky purple of snout green stripe, margined darker, also 

 extending below opercle angle, in posterior end green stripe elongate orange 

 blotch; rest of cheek olive. Front part of back green; from seventh and 

 eighth dorsal spines deep smoky green band across side; below hind part of 

 dorsal deep smoky green; margins of scales in posterior two-thirds of body 

 geranium red. Dorsal edge blue over orange, median band green, base violet. 

 Caudal green, edge blue. Anal edge narrov/ly blue with outer part green, 

 base violet, edged outwardly with darker. First 3 pectoral rays green, 

 edged darker, fin purple medially, greenish below and hyaline at hind edge. 

 Ventral blue along anterior edge, rest of fin greenish and hyaline posteriorly. 

 Olive below pectoral, bluish on chin and breast. 



5619. Burias Island, Busin Harbor. April 23, 1908. Length, 260 mm. Gen- 

 eral color dark green, posterior edges of scales with geranium red lines; lips, 

 chin, and under side of head rich caerulean blue; dorsal with broad blue mar- 

 gin, then red zone, then green, red at base; caudal caerulean blue; anal caeru- 

 lean blue, subbasal bar of scarlet from first to last rays; ventral caerulean, 

 posterior part pale red; pectoral blue, with broad submarginal band of red. 



5662. Same data. Length, 250 mm. 



7772 and 773. Candaraman Island. January 4, 1909. Length, 215 to 217 mm. 

 Teeth white; slaty stripe behind eye; green below under eye and on to chin; 

 yellowish under green on opercle. 



4805. Capulaan Bay near Lucena, Taj-abas. 12-foot Agassiz dredge in 12 

 fathoms. D. 5368. Length, 324 mm. Top of head behind eyes backward 

 to middle of spinous dorsal viridian green; lower parts beryl to blue; above 

 and backward shading to emerald green, brightest on caudal peduncle and 

 caudal fin. Edges of scales above and behind pectoral mauve. Top of 

 head in front of eyes smoky slate; tip of snout bej'ond sky blue. Teeth 

 white. Oblique bar of slate from eye to tip of opercle; another bar across 

 opercle from eye to base of pectoral pale olive buff, with emerald green edge 

 entirely surrounding about one-half width of pupil; green continued as an 

 oblique bar from eye to corner of mouth; rest of cheek slaty blue. Dorsal 

 fin of general color of body, tip bluish; two bars of mauve slightly less than 

 diameter of pupil beneath; few irregular spots of same color on soft part, 

 between bars and covering hinder rays. Terminal two-thirds of anal emerald 

 green, becoming bluish on tip and with mauve bar above base. Ventral 

 green; spines and tips of first rays bluish. Pectoral viridian, merging into 

 bluish, with slaty purplish stripe through center, slightly broader than eye. 



5419. Cebu market. April 7, 1908. Length, 280 mm. Posteriorly green, pink 

 vertical line at base of each scale; diffuse yellow blotch on caudal peduncle 

 running somewhat forward; anterior half without green, with rosy or heli- 

 trope wash; top of head slaty olive, emerald green on first three scales in 

 front of dorsal; upper lip broadly green, stripe passing backward under eye 

 across to point of opercle about breadth of eye; lower lip blue; band behind 

 chin green, blue centrall}' down throat and backward to vent, interrupted at 

 ventrals. Front and tip of dorsal china blue, on orange of the same breadth, 

 then pale green, basal half with purplish shades; posteriori}' largely orange. 

 Caudal orange, edges of lobes china blue; horseshoe of same color in fork. Anal 

 china blue front and edge for nearly the breadth of eye; blue at base and on 

 last ray, remainder of fin purplish. Ventral pinkish lavender, front broadh' 

 blue, and dashes of blue on last raj's. Pectoral rays lemon yellow, mem- 

 branes hyaline; bar of green at base. Teeth pale purplish. Iris golden and 

 green. 



