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A. 473. Tulnnaluta Island. September 9, 1909. Length, 250 mm. (Canines, 



upper, 1 — 2; lower, — 1.) 

 9432. Tulaj-an Island. September 13, 1909. Length, 200 mm. (Canines, 



upper, — 0; lower, 1 — 1.) 

 7371. Tara Island. December 15, 190S. Length, 243 mm. General color 

 green; side above pectoral with pink overshade, bases of scales posterior 

 pink; nose bright green; bar from eye to base of pectoral bright green, above 

 and below green areas more or less of lavender lilac overshade; interorbital 

 area vermiculated with lilac on green ground; lower regions with blue shades; 

 blue line through throat and breast and below. Blue front and margin of 

 dorsal and at bases of rays, geranium pink bar above base and below blue 

 margin, grass green bar through center expanding into yellow on last rays, 

 including most their length. Caudal blue, with reddish stripe through each 

 lobe. Front and margin of anal blue, base with reddish overshades. Ventrals 

 blue. Pectoral rays very pale brownish hyaline, first ray blue above. Teeth 

 dusky white. 

 7687. Ulugan Bay. December 29, 1908. Length, 270 mm. (Canines, upper, 



3—3; lovN^er, 1—2.) 

 7157. West coast of Palaui Island. November 18, 1908. Length, 222 mm. 



(Canines, upper, 1 — 0; lower, 1 — 1.) 

 8538. Wreck Bay, Dalaganem. April 8, 1909. Length, 248 mm. (Canines, 



upper, 2 — 2; lower, 2 — ^1.) 

 A. 1258. Uki, Bouro Island. December 9, 1909. Length, 295 mm. (Canines.^ 



upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0, preopercle scales, 4 — 6.) 

 A. 1315. Tifu Bay, Bouro Island. December 10, 1909. Length, 218 mm. 

 9508: Dodepo and Pasejogo Islands, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. November 16', 



1909. Length, 193 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 2; lower, 1 — 1.) 

 12770. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length, 210 mm. (Ca- 

 nines, upper, 2 — 2; lower, 1 — 0.) 

 22861. Togian Bay, Togian Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. November 19, 

 1909. Length, 179 mm. (Canines, upper, — 0; lower, 1 — 1.) [2053.] An- 

 terior half of body purplish, posterior viridian; broad green bar across snout 

 and upper lip, passes backward under eye to point of opercle, continuing above 

 pectoral on three of four scales; lower lip narrowly blue; broader blue band 

 across chin, becoming green in front of cheek; dash of blue shading into greenish 

 wash posteriorly on lower naked portion of preopercle; broad blue median 

 stripe, interrupted at base of ventrals, shows somewhat along base of anal; 

 yellowish area through middle of caudal peduncle; front and margin of dorsal, 

 anal, and edges of caudal lobes blue; base of dorsal purplish changing to ver- 

 milion on posterior rays, narrow inframarginal orange vermilion bar rises at 

 base of first membrane, continues about equal width until last three or four 

 rays where it fuses with lower color, separated by median green bar from purple; 

 basal half of anal lilac purple or with orange shade; caudal orange, blue crescent 

 through its center reaching to base of middle rays, where it becomes slightly 

 greenish, equals in width blue edge of lobes; fronts of ventrals bright blue, 

 with dashes of l)lue on last three rays terminally, rays otherwise dull orange; 

 pectorals hyaline straw color, without color on lower rays, base bright green 

 above purplish of fleshy part; along median ventral blue stripe wash of orange, 

 fusing upward into the purplish ground color. 

 A. 1100, 13257, and 13258. Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. 

 Length, 202 to 230 mm. (A. 1160, canines, upper, 1—1; lower, 3—1; 13257, 

 canines, upper, — 0; lower, 2 — 2; 13258, canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, 1 — 1.) 

 Teeth dusky; yellow on caudal peduncle very small; broad green bar from snout 

 under eye to point of opercle; lower lip bluish; blue median ventral bar; dorsal 



