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nyms. Scarus xantliopleura Bleeker seems to differ only in color. 

 Its pectoral is shown with the upper border blue, with a submarginal 

 yellow line, and the dorsal pink, with median row of blue blotches, 

 smaller on the soft dorsal posteriorly. 



8626. Biri Channel. June 1, 1909. Length, 368 mm. (Canines, upper, — 1; 

 lower, 0—0.) 



8656. Biri Channel, Balicuatro Island. June 2, 1909. Length, 332 mm. (Ca- 

 nines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, 2 — 1.) Beryl to verdigris, scales of body broadly 

 margined with pinkish, becoming somewhat heliotropS on back; breast with 

 bluish shade; broad blue stripe median on throat, breast and belly; on either 

 side of this pink; forehead washed with rosy purple, distinct green bar from 

 front of one eye across most prominent part of forehead to its opposite; broader 

 and more diffused bar from top of one eye to another; dash of green behind 

 eye; lips bluish green, which joins at corner of mouth, forming green bar across 

 preorbital, which curves backward under eye; narrow orange stripe across 

 snout above upper lip separates green of lip from broader band above snout; 

 small green crescent above in median line; blue of lower lip extending back- 

 ward on chin mesially; orange band from blue obliquely upward almost to 

 eye; greenish blue bar behind, then orange wash extending along margin of 

 interopercle; large pale yellowish blotch in center of caudal peduncle; scales 

 behind purplish, with green centers; front and margin of dorsal and anal 

 paris blue; basal half of each fin verdigris; dull orange stripe somewhat broader 

 than blue through outer half of fin; edges of lobes and center of caudal fin 

 bright green, stripe through middle of each lobe purplish at base, becoming 

 sort of olive yellow terminally, tip of fork of fin purplish; ventrals hyaline 

 green, spine and tip of first ray blue; upper half of pectoral dull antwerp blue, 

 oblique bar through middle of purplish running across base of rays from belly 

 to about sixth ray above, thence obliquely outward to tip of fin, lower portion 

 of fin terminally hyaline greenish and dash of orange in fleshy base; teeth white. 



7859. Cagayan, Sulu. January 8, 1909. Length, 470 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 1 — 2; lower, — 0.) Cheek and lower head bright emerald; top of head Italian 

 pink, fading into peach bloom; few specks of green on snout and one in front 

 of eye. Body very dark bluish green; lower portions more or less tawny; 

 dorsal front and margin leitch's blue, spines and rays green; membranes of 

 spinous portion tawny, becoming slightly purplish on soft portion; green of 

 rays extending over membranes in upper portion of soft fin,' including all of 

 last membrane; edges of caudal lobes blue, each lobe with broad tawny stripe 

 through middle, broader than eye, central body of fin yellowish green and 

 scales at base of fin carry small round green spots, one to three in each; anal 

 bright green, becoming blue on extreme front and margin, irregular twany 

 bar through center from base of second spine to tip of antepenultimate ray; 

 ventrals green, fronts blue, tawny through middle; pectorals smoky purple, 

 becoming more or less hyaline at tip below and green proximal. Iris green 

 and golden. Teeth indigo, exposed portion of upper, except edge, with moss 

 growing. 



7727. Caxisigan Island, near Balabac. January 2, 1909. Length, 318 mm. 

 (preopercle scales 2 — -1). Teeth dark green to indigo; lower lip, chin, snout 

 and top of head reddish ochre, merging into olivaceous on top of head; bright 

 green bar across snout, not reaching eye, but with spot or dash between its 

 end and eye, markings limited by blackish borders; lower head brilliant green, 

 partially set off from the upper color by blackish; breast more or less tawny; 

 dorsal front and margin blue, front rays to about one-thirteenth green, first 

 9 or 10 membranes raw umber, nearly same as snout color; posterior portion 



