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Anal grass green distally, bluish at margin, hav of dull purplish at base, front 

 portion bluish, remainder hyaline with greenish wash. Pectoral bluish green 

 above, lower membranes hyaline, rays greenish, medially dusky purplish. Iris 

 golden. 



7296, 7299, 7300. Sablayan, Mindoro. December 12, 1908. Length, 190 to 

 280 mm. Teeth white; orange on opercle; forehead slaty, with stripe of 

 same behind eye; dorsal front and margin blue, Vjase green; body dull orange, 

 with green central bar; anal mostly green, purplish bar at base. 



5682 and 5683. Santa Cruz. April 2-1, 1908. June 10, 1909. Length, 250 to 279 

 mm. Anterior back beryl; area above and in front of eyes slaty purple; upper 

 lip narrowly purplish, snout and chin bright greenish blue; cheek bronzy; 

 emerald band under eye downward toward base of pectoral; purplish line 

 obliquely downward behind eye; pectoral with stripe of royal purple; other 

 colors the same as in the specimen from Burias Island; teeth white. 



5706 and 5709. Surigao, Mindanao. May 8, 1909. Length, 225 to 230 mm. 



7351. Tara Island. December 14, 1908. Length, 202 mm. 



6413 and 6420. Tilig, Lubang. July 14, 1908. Length, 212 to 278 mm. 



7670. Ulugan Bay, Palawan Island. December 28, 1908. Length, 280 mm. 

 Teeth white. Slaty streake, behind eye. 



%46. Varadero Bay. July 23, 1908. Length, 308 mm. General color, blue 

 green. Teeth white. Lips, snout, and chin brilliant blue; greenish bar across 

 preorbital, curves down under ej'e to pectoral base, under portion divided by 

 white blotch; from eye to front of opercle slaty bar. Dorsal blue, crossed by 

 two dull blue purplish bands. Anal with terminal half green, base blue, median 

 band slaty purple. Caudal bright green, without bars. Pectoral with medial 

 purple stripe. 



7158. West Coast of Palaui Island. November 18, 1908. Length, 275 mm. 

 Forehead and front of back bluish green, posteriorly green with brown and 

 purplish bases of scales giving darker tinge. Interorbital and part of snout 

 smoky purplish, extending through eyes as oblique bar to opercle point. Snout 

 and chin light blue; upper lip very narrowly dull orange; cheek olivaceous and 

 dash of orange behind on lower opercle, separated from purlish bar by green 

 which continuous from blue of cheek under eye; throat and ventral surfaces 

 bluish. Dorsal with front and edge bluish, base like body scales, anterior 

 portion purplish orange with green median bar, broken posteriorly. Caudal 

 bluish green, few median purplish spots. Terminal three-fifths of anal bluish 

 green, fin purplish medially, base blue green. Pectoral blue green, with 

 central purple bar. Ventral pale blue green. Teeth white. 



51745. U.S.N. M. Pago Pago, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Type of Callyodon 

 fumifrons. 



CALLYODON FASCIATUS (Valenciennes) 



Scarus fasciatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 222. 

 Moluccas. 



Scarus rivulalus (not Forskal) (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Valenciennes, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 223. Java. 



Pseudoscarus rivulatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 44, 

 pi. 9, fig. 3 (Java, Bawean, Singapore, Biliton, Celebes, Sumbawa, Batjan, 

 Timor). — GmcHENOT, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, vol. 11, 1865, 

 p. 34 (Java). — Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 vol. 1, 1876, p. 345 (Cape Grenville).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, 

 p. 413, pi. 87, fig. 6 (Madras). — KAroli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, 

 vol. 5, 1S81, p. 175 (Singapore).— Day, Faima British India, vol. 2, 1889, 

 p. 426. 



