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7958. Pagapas Bay. February 20, 1909. Length, 285 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2 — 3; lower, — 2.) General color green, with dusky yellow wash on side 

 above pectoral. Lips green; chin with blue green stripe; blue line along 

 isthmus continued to ventrals. Dorsal margin blue anteriorly, pale bluish 

 green margin posteriorly, orange bar, smoky green bar, purple base, with 

 respectively light green and pink on last four or five rays. Anal edge blue, 

 base smoky purple. Ventrals bluish green and light smoky lavender. 

 7970. Same data. Length, 240 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 3; lower, 2 — 2.) 

 General color green. Broad green bar from snout through and under lower 

 part of eye, extending to pectoral base; lower Up with green edge; throat 

 band green; membrane of isthmus green, extending as broken median ventral 

 line to vent; green spot under cheek; body behind pectoral tip green with rosy 

 base. Dorsal and anal edges and outer caudal edges of ventrals greenish 

 blue like pectoral base; orange band submarginal on dorsal, below indistinct 

 greenish area; lower part or subbasal region of dorsal and anal light purple, 

 bases yellow. Elongated greenish yellow spot on caudal peduncle and another 

 smaller spot on body just behind pectoral tip. Small blue green spot on each 

 scale of lateral line. Dorsal with purple of lower part of fin giving place to 

 orange over last six rays; last membranes of dorsal and anal bluish green. 

 Central part of caudal edge light orange. Blue green on under edge of anal, 

 broad basal part lavender, base blue green. Purple spot at upper axil of 

 pectoral, base of fin greenish blue, first eight rays and membranes yellow, rest 

 of fin hyaline. 



A. 1359. Pendek Island. December 15, 1909. Length, 233 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 4 — 4; lower, 3 — 2.) 



5885. Polloc. May 22, 1908. Length, 228 mm. General color green, reddish 

 bars on scales posteriorly. Top of head and anteriorly body slaty above; 

 green bar from tip of opercle, under eyes and across snout; lower head more 

 or less smoky. Lower lip green; green band across chin; dashes of green on 

 interopercle; median line on throat, breast and belly blue. Dorsal and anal 

 edged blue, former with submarginal bar. Caudal orange, with crescent 

 in fork and edges blue. Pectoral yellowish. Ventral bluish or green. 



8189 and 8191. Port Busin, Burias Island. March 8, 1909. Length, 240 to 

 250 mm. (8189, canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, 2 — 2; 8191, canines, upper, 

 2—1; lower, 1—2.) 



18714. Port Dupon, Leyte Island. March 17, 1909. Length, 193 mm. 

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



4606. Port Palapag, near northern Samar. June 3, 1909. Length, 183 mm. 

 [1585.] (Preopercle scales 1 — 1.) General color green; scales with reddish 

 margins, red becoming prominent color on upper posterior portion of body; 

 teeth white; greens of head bright, top of head between eyes striped and 

 specked with reddish; lower lip blue; a reddish band across chin and preorbital 

 to eye, blue behind; blue median stripe from throat to anus; broad green band 

 from eye across opercle to base of pectoral; borders of anal and dorsal blue, 

 also edges of caudal and fronts of ventrals; dorsal body reddish orange, with 

 broad green central band, latter becomes pale posteriorly and whole of last 

 two or three rays somewhat orange; reddish stripe through each caudal lobe, 

 base of central portion purplish, terminal portion green and red of lobes 

 bordered by blue internally; basal three-fifths of anal reddish with row of 

 diflfused blue spots through centers, bases of last rays blue; pectorals hyaline 

 pink, without stripes. 



5802. Pujada Bay. May 15, 1908. Length, 218 mm. (Canines, upper, 2 — 2; 

 lower, 1 — 2.) Anterior portion of body slaty, posterior bright green, scales 

 with vertical geranium bar at base, in slaty portion becomes more heliotrope; 

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