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of anal blue, body of fin purplish orange shade; ventrals with pale green or 

 bluish fronts, remainder almost colorless, slight pinkish shade perhaps; pectoral 

 blue, becoming green at base above, pale stripe originates at base of lower rays, 

 curves upward across fin to point of third and fourth rays, becomes somewhat 

 purplish terminally, yellowish internally; pinkish spot at flesh base of pectoral, 

 probably orange in life; teeth white; iris yellow except above, where color like 

 top of head. 



12644. Port Palapag, near northern Samar. June 3, 1909. Length, 182 mm. 

 (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) [1582.] Teeth white; general body color 

 greenish, scales with purplish or pink margins; head washed with rosy; chin, 

 throat, and belly more or less orange; blue median line from throat to anal 

 fin; lips blue, stripe passing across preorbital under eye and dash of green 

 behind eye; blue chin band and bluish or green on interopercle and edge of 

 opercle; vertical fins with blue fronts and edges; body of dorsal orange, with 

 obscure green bar through center, bluish at base; caudal orange, with blue 

 spots and markings, tip in fork dusky; anal similar to dorsal but color darker; 

 ventrals blue, front and middle, orange; pectorals very pale orange, upper 

 rays and base blue. 



A. 1336. Tomahu Island at north end of Bouro Island. December 11, 1909. 

 Large head 162 mm. (Canines, upper, 3 — 3; lower, — 0; preopercle scales 

 2—2.) 



A. 842. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length,- 395 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2 — 1; lower, 1 — 1. Viridian green, margin of scales on side and back with 

 orange about one-third or more breadth of green, becomes obsolete under 

 pectoral; top of head more or less olive; two green bars across interorbital 

 region; snout with some purplish shades; teeth white; lips blue, orange 

 band above blue on upper lip, above which blue again, fusing down corner 

 of mouth to eye; two blue bands across chin with orange between and 

 behind, also blue median line, orange on either side on breast and abdomen and 

 obscure orange stripe above on abdomen. Dorsal and anal blue in front and 

 at margin, green at base and lavender; medianly orange: inframarginal or 

 central area of pale yellow on caudal peduncle below caudal; edges of caudal 

 lobes greenish blue, body of fin purplish with green crescent in center, terminally 

 more or less orange in fork; ventrals bluish; pectorals blue above, purple through 

 center and somewhat hyaline on lower terminal rays. 



A. 829. Same data. Length, 333 mm. (Canines, upper, 3 — 2; lower, 2 — 1.) 



CALLYODON OVICEPS (Valenciennes) 



Scarus oviceps Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 244. Ta- 

 hiti. 



Pseudoscarus oviceps Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, vol. 11, 

 1865, p. 43 (type).— Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, 

 p. 312, pi. 152, fig. a (Ponape, Pelew Islands, Gilbert Islands, Samoa, 

 Society Islands, Paumotus). 



Pseudoscarus zonatus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 7, 1883, p. 591. New Guinea. 



Scarus lupus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 49, pi. 18, fig. 1. 

 Thornton Island. 



Depth 2% to 2^; head 2^ to 2%, width V/i to 2}^. Snout 

 2 K to 23^; eye 5% to 6 H, 2^ to 3 in snout, 2 to 3^ in interorbital; 

 mouth cleft 43^ to 5% in head; lips largely cover teeth; no canines; 

 interorbital 2^ to 3, convex. Gill rakers 16 + 30, slender, fine, 

 flexible. 



