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pale area on side of caudal peduncle; lower parts lavender; teeth white; nose 

 bright green, continued as preorbital bar and passing under eye and across 

 opercle to below point; blotch of green above and behind eye; lower lip bluish 

 green; broad green bar across front of intcropercle, meeting and passing back as 

 throat line, continued as broad blue line mesially to front of anal. Dorsal front 

 and margin blue, then orange, then lavender purple, hyaline orange posteriorly; 

 a green bar under orange, broken into round spots posteriorly, green at base. 

 Caudal purpUsh orange, edged with blue, interrupted blue crescent in fork. 

 Anal blue terminally, lavender purple at base and blue blotches at base. 

 Ventral blue, with reddish center. Pectoral yellow, with blue base. Iris 

 golden. 



8786. Quinalasag Island. June 21, 1909. Length, 225 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2—0; lower, 0—0.) 



13272 and 22208. Rapurapu Island. June 22, 1909. Length, 210 to 223 mm. 

 (22208, canines, upper, 1 — 2; lower, 2 — 1.) 



5297. Romblon. March 26, 1908. Length, 255 mm. Teeth white; nose 

 bright emerald green, color continued as suborbital line across opercle; above 

 head purplish slate; dash of green behind upper corner of eye and some greenish 

 on nape in front of dorsal; dull heliotrope on either side of green suborbital line; 

 lower lip green; chin dull lilac, green band behind; interopercular region lilac, 

 with green spot on either side forward; cheek and interopercle backward soiled 

 with purplish slate with some shades of green; color of top of head continued 

 backward to near middle of bodj'; posterior emerald green; all scales on side 

 with reddish bar at base; lower parts merging into lilac; median line of blue 

 from throat to vent, interrupted about ventrals. Dorsal front and margin 

 china blue; under this band of dull reddish orange, base of fin bright purplish, 

 centrally green in posterior portion; soft rays orange, except last half which is 

 green; green blotches at the bases of the last five or six rays. Caudal edged 

 with greenish blue on lobes, broadly orange in fork, dull reddish under green on 

 edges of lobes continued to tips, where it becomes more orange; center of fin 

 grass green basally, blue band between this and orange continued to tips of 

 under part of lobes. Anal bright blue on front and distal two-fifths, Hlac 

 basally, last ray and narrowly along base bright blue. Pectoral pale yellow, 

 with blue basal bar becomes greenish on inner part of axil; fleshy portion with 

 dull purplish bar above, brownish below. Ventral with first ray and spine blue, 

 last three rays blue, otherwise second ray dull lilac. Iris with metallic brassy. 



6798. Sacol Island. September 9, 1909. Length, 243 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2 — 2; lower, 1 — 2.) Teeth dusky white; broad green band across snout under 

 eye back to point of opercle; lower lip narrowly green, green band behind chin; 

 blue throat line running medially on ventral surface; anterior half of body, top 

 of head predominately reddish, posteriorly green; short yellow band on middle 

 of caudal peduncle. Front and margin of dorsal and anal and edges of caudal 

 lobes blue; orange band under blue of dorsal beginning at base of first mem- 

 brane; green central band beginning at base of second spine, more or less 

 broken at transverse portion, beneath purple and orange, latter covering all of 

 last four rays except blue spots on last half. Caudal orange with dashes and 

 stripes of blue. Anal greenish orange basally on about two-thirds of fin. 

 Ventral fronts blue, last two or three rays with dashes of blue, otherwise hyaline 

 orange. Pectorals hyaline yellow, broad blue base, somewhat orange on fleshy 

 base outside. 



5685. Santa Cruz, Marinduque. April 24, 1908. Length, 250 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1 — 0; lower, 1 — 2.) 



17666. Sitanki reef. September 24, 1909. Length, 157 mm. 



