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5317. Same locality. April 4, 1908. Length, 332 mm. General color, back 

 anteriorl}'- green; posteriorly same, scales broadly edged with claret; top of 

 head smoky in front of eyes, nose and chin blue; upper lip pale lavender; 

 broad smokj' stripe from eye to tip of opercle, below from corner of mouth 

 stripe of green, center pale on opercle; lower cheek smoky; throat and breast 

 bluish, continuing posteriorly; teeth pale rosy; front and tip of dorsal blue, 

 main portion smoky, with greenish central bar; caudal blue or green; anal 

 green terminally, smoky purple basally; green under scales. Ventral pale green 

 or blue. Pectoral same, with smoky purple stripe in upper half. Iris golden. 



5321. Same data. Teeth rosy. Blue of snout and chin broader. 



7572. Endeavor Strait, Malampaya Sound, Palawan Island. December 23, 

 1908. Length, 285 mm. Teeth white; nose and chin bluish green; green 

 stripe extending backward under e3^e and across opercle; slaty above and 

 creamy below on opercle. 



6221 and 6222. Galera Bay. April 9, 1908. Length, 263 to 290 mm. White 

 teeth; pale orange upper lip; bright blue snout and chin; throat blue; back 

 anteriorly bright green, posteriorly with purplish margin to scales; smoky 

 purple streak behind eye; orange on opercle, in middle with green. Dorsal 

 with edge and front blue, center green, purplish orange above and below, 

 green basally. 



4938. IloHo market. March 29, 1909. Length, 263 mm. Nuchal region and 

 anterior dorsal region emerald green; posteriorly bluish and purplish clouding, 

 becoming deep emerald on caudal base; below top of pectoral, running to 

 breast and Ijelly area of heliotrope purple, same color bounding scales of 

 posterior half of bod)-; top of head before middle of ej'es smoky purple; nose 

 ber.vl blue; purple continued as a margin around upper lip; chin and lower 

 lip ber)-!; greenish stripe under eye running backward to opposite upper base 

 of pectoral, dull chrome blotch in hinder part; cheek and lower head purple 

 to lilac, separated from blue of chin by continuation of subocular green stripe. 

 Dorsal green; front and margin with broad blue band, beneath and above 

 base double band of light purple. Caudal bright emerald green, edges and 

 tip bluish. Anal bright green, front and margin blue and purple line at base. 

 Ventral l:>luish, with green shades. Pectoral greenish blue, the middle covered 

 with dark heliotrope stripe. Teeth white. Purplish stripe from posterior 

 edge of eye to tip of opercle. 



6358. Jamelo Bay. July 13, 1908. Length, 290 mm. Viridian, dusky posteri- 

 orly; front of head bluish green; top of head and stripe behind eye more olive; 

 purplish stripe through middle of pectoral, dusky orange band through cen- 

 ter; dusky orange at anal base; teeth white. 



4852. Jolo market. February 12, 1908. Length, 235 mm. 



8999. Langao Point, Luzon. June 24, 1909. Length, 250 mm. 



8311. Lode Bay, Destacado Island. March 13, 1909. Length, 273 mm. Gen- 

 eral color green; lips blue; teeth white; blue of lips extending brokenly into 

 subopercle and breast; broad green stripe with darker upper margin extends 

 from corner of mouth, under eye and into angle of opercle; dark chocolate 

 stripe extends above from eye to angle of opercle; cheek light violet; snout, 

 far back as between eyes, smoky purple; most of body scales with red mar- 

 gins. Dorsal with blue margin, green central stripe above and below red 

 or violet. Caudal green, darker on upper and lower margins. Anal with 

 blue margin, red at base, remainder green. Pectoral with smoky purple 

 stripe covering four of central rays; green stripe from corner of mouth under 

 eye becomes yellowish toward angle of opercle. 



6145 and 6146. Mansalay, Mindoro. June 4, 1908. Length, 260 to 273 mm. 



