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of dorsal at base dark purplish, distal portion including nearly all of last ray 

 bright green, blue margin not touching last three rays; caudal with bluish 

 green edges, broad umber stripe on each lobe, central body yellowish green, 

 scaled region at base with purplish overshades each specked with broad green 

 dot in centre and dots continuing more or less through caudal peduncle, but 

 obscured by dark overshade; anal with bluish front and margin, base of last 

 membrane and ray green, central body ocher with purplish shades anteriorly, 

 with three or four round green spots in posterior portion of ocher; ventrals 

 bluish green, some of rays, especially first, ochraceous; pectoral dark purple, 

 upper upper ray wi1?h greenish shade; iris green and orange. 



8544. Cuyo Harbor. April 9, 1909. Length, 300 mm. 



9209. Mahinog, Camiguin Island. August 3, 1909. Length, 328 mm. 



6137 and 6138. Mansalay, Mindoro. June 4, 1909. Length, 329 to 380 mm. 



8691. Matnog Island. June 3, 1909. Length, 368 mm. (Canines, upper, 2 — 2; 

 lower, — 0.) 



8892. Palag Bay vicinity, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length, 482 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 2 — 2; lower, — 0.) 



603. Port Caltom. December 15, 1908. Length, 334 mm. 



8966. Rapurapu Island and Strait. June 22, 1909. Length, 305 mm. 



6940. Sabtan Island. November 8, 1908. Length, 600 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2 — 2; lower, — 0.) General color green, becoming somewhat brighter in 

 alcohol; edges of scales brownish or tawny with more or less obscure central 

 spots; lower head brilliant green, upper with tawny shades; lower lip and 

 mouth corner dull orange; breast and belly with tawny shades; teeth dark 

 green; dorsal green, membranes tawny, most distinct in spinous portion; 

 distal half of anal green, basal half tawny with green blotches; edges of caudal 

 lobes green, body of fin green, with broad tawny stripe in each lobe; pectoral 

 greenish, with purplish overshades; ventral green, more or less tawny cen- 

 trally; iris orange, green above. 



CALLYODON CAUDOFASCIATUS (Giinther) 



Pseudoscarus caudofasciatus GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish, Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, 



p. 283. Mauritius; Fishes of Zanzibar, 1865, p. 108 (Zanzibar); Journ. 



Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (15), 1909, p. 312, pi. 153, figs, a-b (Mauritius, 



Zanzibar, Ponape, Mortlock, Samoa). 

 Callyodon zonularis Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 



(1906), p. 321, fig. 60. Pago Pago, Samoa. — Seale and Bean, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 38, 1907, p. 246 (Zamboanga.) 



Depth 2y2 to 2li; head 2% to 2%, width 2^ to 2%. Snout 

 23/^ to 23^; eye bVs to 1%, 23^ to 2,}/^ in snout, 1% to 23^ in inter- 

 orbital; mouth cleft 3>8 to 4^ in head; lips half to largely or quite 

 cover teeth; canines none; interorbital 3 to 33^, convex. Gill 

 rakers 20 + 35, short, slender, flexible. 



Scales in lateral line 17 to 19, 4 or 5 + 2; 2 scales above lateral 

 line, 6 below, 5 or 6 predorsal; 2 or 3 rows of cheek scales, when 

 latter prevail lowest row on preopercle flange of 3 or 4 scales. Scales 

 with 35 to 46 basal radiating striae, apical 31 to 40; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, ninth spine 3^ to 3% in head, first branched ray 

 2ys to 3M; A. Ill, 9, I, third spine 33^ to 3>g, first branched ray 

 3 to 3i^; caudal 13^ to \%, emarginate, more deeply so with age 

 and little double concave as expanded; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 2)4 to 2%) pectoral 1^ to l^s; ventral 1^ to 2}i. 



