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7547. Endeavor Strait, Malampaya Sound, Palawan Island. December 23, 

 1908. Length, 224 mm. (Canines, upper 2 — 2; lower, 1 — 1.) Teeth white. 

 Green above, bluish below; slaty lines and spots pale lilac. Dorsal front and 

 margin blue, inframarginal orange or geranium band, center of fin green, 

 becoming yellow and broader behind; half bar of geranium near base, broken 

 at the sixth spinous membrane. Caudal blue, dull purplish stripes on lobes. 

 Anal margin blue, base somewhat lilac, with dash of blue in center of front, 

 extending between third and about seventh or eighth rays; extreme base blue. 

 Ventrals blue. Pectorals hyaline, upper ray green, base green, with black 

 blotch above. 



7609. Endeavor Strait. December 24, 1908. Length, 250 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 2 — 2; lower, 2 — 1.) 



9093. Gigoso Point, Quinapundan Bay, Samar. July 28, 1909. Length, 253 

 mm. (Canines, upper, 2 — 2; lower, 1 — 1.) 



A. 1349. Great Tobea Island. December 14, 1909. Length, 212 mm. (Canines 

 upper, 1 — 1; lower, 1 — 1.) 



■9008. Langao Point, Luzon. June 24, 1909. Length, 240 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1 — 0; lower, 1 — 0.) 



9271. Murcielagos Bay. August 9, 1909. Length, 240 mm. 



8227 and 8966. Murcielagos Bay, Mindanao. August 20, 1909. Length, 208 

 to 212 mm. [1815.] (8227, canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, 1 — 0, 8966, canines, 

 upper, 1 — 1; lower, 1 — 1.) Teeth white, lips bluish green, anterior portion of 

 body above with reddish brown wash; nuchal region and posterior bright 

 virdian; margins of dorsal, anal, and caudal lobes blue; inframarginal bar of 

 scarlet on dorsal, similar but broader one at base, becoming purple at junction 

 of soft and spinous fin, median bar of emerald and yellowish posteriorly; 

 center of caudal purple, brown stripe through each lobe; base of anal purplish; 

 fronts of ventrals blue; upper ray of pectoral narrowly blue, base green, fin 

 dusky hyaline or very pale straw color. 



9336. Murcielagos Bay, Mindanao. August 21, 1909. Two examples. Length, 

 220 mm. Anterior portion of body largely of drab or lilac shades, bluish below, 

 little green at base of dorsal and green stripe on first three or four scales in 

 front of dorsal; top of head similar, more or less olive overshade; snout and 

 broad band crossing preorbital under eye backvrard to point of opercle of 

 bright green; lower lip blue; teeth dusky white; green band behind chin and 

 dash on interopercle; lower head otherwise with more or less reddish shades 

 below; posterior body viridian, base of scales slightly reddish, distinct yellow 

 area in middle of caudal peduncle; in one example shifted above middle 

 and becomes more or less obscure; along base of anal and lower caudal 

 peduncle lilac shades prominent; blue midventral stripe from chin to anus. 

 Dorsal with blue front and margin, orange beneath, median green band begins 

 on second membrane and not quite reaching last two; broad orange band 

 beneath which largely purplish in middle region. Edges of caudal lobes 

 bright blue, body of fin orange with blue and green crescent through middle 

 connecting with body green by median stripe, this crescent green centrally, 

 horns becoming blue. Anal with blue front and broad margin, also at base 

 of last ray; basal half or three-fifths purplish orange. Ventral front blue 

 with dash of same color on three hindmost rays, remainder of fin hyaUne pink. 

 Pectorals pale yellow, blue bar at base with reddish or purplish bar on fleshy 

 part; green band from head continued on first two or three scales above base of 

 pectoral. 



18584. Same data. Length, 208 mm. (Canines, upper, 2 — 2; lower, 1 — 1.) 



7969. Pagapas Bay. February 20, 1909. Length, 272 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 1 — 1; lower, 1 — 1.) 



