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ground color; upper lip bright orange, green stripe behind across snout only 

 about half width of pupil, passes backward to hind preopercular margin; 

 another narrow green stripe runs from nostril through top of ej^e to upper 

 corner of gill opening; very short dash of green behind middle of ej'e; lower 

 lip blue in center, becoming green at corner of mouth; chin orange, stripe pass- 

 ing upward and merging into dusky greenish orange of cheek; blue stripe behind 

 chin, which covers in addition most all branchiostegal membranes; stripe on 

 interopercle, including little of lower preopercular line blue. Margin of dorsal 

 and anal blue, body of dorsal orange red, base blue; anal similar but body 

 color paler, with more purplish cast; caudal bluish green, base purplish, 

 running into bright orange red stripe through each lobe, central body of 

 fin with yellowish shade, becoming bluish at tip; ventrals pale blue, fronts 

 not so distinctly contrasted as usual; pectoral body purplish, terminal portion 

 dusky hyaline, three or four upper rays dark green, color continued as green 

 bar terminal to orange bar, which crosses base. 



8336. Same data. Length, 3.50 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 2; lower, — 0.) 



8373. Calangaman Island. March 11, 1909. Length, 300 mm. 



6223 and G227. Galera Bay. June 9, 1908. Length, 192 to 287 mm. (6223.) 

 Teeth green. Upper lip purplish pink, lower blue and shades into green at 

 mouth corner. Top of head and anterior back smoky purple, reaching lower 

 eye edge; pale viridian line under eye to snout; short green stripe above eye 

 and dark behind eye. Pectoral yellowish green above, bright purple medially, 

 hyaline and blue green below. Chin with broad pink band. Interopercle 

 pinkish anteriorly behind blue band. (6227.) Teeth white, with pale blue 

 bases. 



6252. Same data. Length, 268 mm. Teeth green. 



A 1213. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length, 324 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) 



4579. Grande Island reef, Subig Bay. January 8, 1908. Length, 273 mm. 



8371. Malapascua Island. March 16, 1909. Length, 280 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1—1; lower, — 0.) Similar to Buang Bay e.xample. Teeth indigo. 

 Upper lip orange, lower bluish-green; chin orange and blue-green band across 

 snout and under eye, another above eye. Dorsal scarlet and blue. Caudal 

 scarlet to purple at tips. Anal pale purple and blue. Pectoral orange at base, 

 blue and purple. 



6525. Maricaban Island Reef. July 21, 1908. Length, 337 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) Teeth green; inside of mouth reddish; upper lip 

 scarlet; broad band of green on nose running backward under eye; lower lip 

 narrowly reddish, and behind blue, again pink merging into lilac tones of under 

 side of head and breast; top of head purplish slate; front and margin of dorsal 

 and anal blue, body of fins geranium red, base green; an obscure row of blotches 

 in front portion of dorsal; edges of lobes and middle body of caudal bluish 

 green, with purplish shades at base, merging into red stripe below; pectoral 

 green in upper portion, lower lilac. 



8771. Masamat Bay, Quinalasag Island. June 12, 1909. Length, 248 mm. 

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



7993. Port Banalacan, Marinduque Island. February 23, 1909. Length, 314 

 mm. Teeth indigo; upper Hp broadly orange; above this band of dark green 

 passes backward under eye becoming extinct in after portion of opercle; above 

 this top of head and anterior body dark smoky purple; below cheeks with 

 reddish shades; lower portion of head and breast bluish; lower lip very narrowly 

 orange; below this bright band which blue mesially, becoming green at corner 

 of mouth; back and posterior region dark green, scales with bright reddish 

 edges, more or less definite greenish stripe from lower base of pectoral back- 



