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purplish orange, base of fin blue. Blue stripe from throat continues on median 

 ventral line to anus. Ventrals very pale purplish, fronts blue with blue dashes 

 on posterior rays. Pectoral hyaline lemon j^ellow, color most pronounced 

 on upper portion; bluish green bar at bases of rays; area on side under pectoral 

 purplish. Lower head similar with greenish wash; subopercular stripe continued 

 backward behind band of opercle on about three or four scales; bases of scales 

 in central portion of green area with pale magenta bar; not appearing near 

 dorsal base and fades into color of abdominal region below. 



A. 579. Busbus Point, Siasi. September 20, 1909. Length, 248 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 3—1; lower, 1 — 1.) 



10600 and 11140. Cabugan Island, Hinunangan Bay, Leyte Island. July 30,. 

 1909. Length, 175 to 200 mm. (10,600, canines, upper, — 1; lower, 0—0 

 [1766]; 11140, canines, upper, 1 — 2; lower, — [1765].) General color gray 

 with more or less mottled effect on back and side from spots of pale olive gray; 

 teeth white or very pale rosy. Dorsals body color with more or less olivaceous 

 shade, fronts and margins narrowly slaty; apparently slight mottling similar 

 to that on body, but no bars; caudal more or less marked with pale specks 

 in some examples, slightly apparent at base in others; anals similar to body, 

 margins pale slaty, sometimes distinctly mottled with paler and obscurely, 

 not apparent in others; ventrals pale rose; pectorals slightly dusky, more or 

 less olive shade above, somewhat rosy on fleshy base, and dusky spot on 

 upper base; caudal in fork slightly whitish or hyaline at tip. 



8021. Capulaan Bay, Pagbilao Island. February 24, 1909. Length, 265 mm. 

 (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, 1 — 2.) Teeth dusky white; head and caudal 

 region green; body anteriorly more or less dusky or purplish; lips green, with 

 purplish bar across chin interrupted on median line by green; throat green, 

 continued as line across breast and belly; dash of green behind chin and 

 longitudinal one on interopercle; interorbital region with small brownish 

 spots; dashes of same color radiating from in front above and behind; broad 

 green band from lower corner of eye to base of pectoral; nuchal region and 

 including base of first five dorsal spines green. Front and margin of dorsal 

 blue, under this orange stripe of equal width, body yellowish green, becoming 

 clear yellow posteriori}^; an arched bar of purplish covering base of fin, begin- 

 ning about third membrane and crossing base of penultimate ray; last half ray 

 green. Caudal with green edges, broad purplish stripe internal on lobes, 

 central body smoky purplish green. Front and margin of anal green, includ- 

 ing all of last half ray, basal portion purplish, occupying three-fourths of first 

 ray, becoming narrower posteriorly except at last membrane where between 

 vertical edge. Ventrals green, with dusky orange stripe. Pectorals hyaline 

 yellow, base green, also first ray; black spot at upper base. 



11791. Cebu market. March 20, 1909. Length, 223 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 0—1; lower, 2—2.) 



5332. Cebu Market. April 4, 1908. Length, 210 mm. Slaty anteriorly; 

 greenish posteriorly and below; teeth reddish; lips blue, upper broadly, con- 

 tinued as stripe through lower eye across opercle into side; chin pale with 

 blue band behind continued mesially to vent, interrupted at ventral; dash of 

 blue in front of interopercle, lower head otherwise as front of body. Front 

 and tip of dorsal narrowly china blue, basally greenish, body orange with 

 median interrupted greenish stripe. Caudal orange, edges of lobes blue, 

 horseshoe of blue within fork. Anal broadly with front and edge blue, narrow 

 on base and last ray, body of fin greenish orange. Front and last rays of 

 ventral blue, centrally reddish or orange. Pectoral straw color, base with 

 blue bar. Iris golden. 



