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shades. Paired fins with very light purplish shades and dark brown blotch 

 on upper region of pectoral. Teeth white. 



5039. Sitanki Wharf. February 27, 1908. Length, 367 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2 — 2; lower, — 0.) General color pale chrome and blue. Teeth white. 

 Lips orange. Streaks on head blue. 



4940. Tataan, Tawi Tawi Group. February 20, 1908. Length, 273 mm. (No 

 canines.) Scales margined with orange; centers and area covered by four 

 irregular bars azure blue, interspaces dusky lilac; lower head, breast, and belly 

 pale, flushed with salmon; nuchal region with blue mottlings; blue bar little 

 wider than pupil curves forward from upper front of one eye to opposite; 

 short radiating lines curve around upper and posterior rim of orbit; serrated 

 blue line below eye passes downward to below corner of mouth; blue band 

 crosses tip of snout setting off narrow orange of lip, another behind chin; 

 lower lip orange, pale in center; a median blue Ime on branchiostegal region; 

 blue spot on subopercle on either side. Dorsal pale orange, front and upper 

 edge blue and blue at base. Caudal dull purplish, dusky at tip edged with 

 blue. Anal similar to dorsal. Ventral with salmon shades, front edge blue. 

 Pectoral lemon yellow, top edged blue. Teeth pinkish white. Iris golden. 



A. 572. Tutu Bay, southern Jolo. September 19, 1909. Length, 279 mm. 

 (No canines.) 



6841. Kowloon market, China. Length, 330 mm. (No canines.) 



CALLYODON VmiDIBUSIUS, new species 



Depth 2% to 2K; bead 2% to 3^, width 2K to 23^. Snout 

 2'J4to2y^; eye 6 to 6^, 23^ to 23^ in snout, 2 to 23^ in interoribtal; 

 mouth cleft 4;^ to 5 in head; hps cover ^ of teeth; canines absent, 

 rarely small, obsolete one above each on either side; interorbital 3 to 

 33^ in head, broadly convex. Gill rakers 17 + 26, short, flexible, 

 slender. 



Scales in lateral line 18 + 5 + 2; 2 scales above lateral line, 6 below, 

 7 or 8 predorsal; 3 rows of scales on cheek, of which lowest row of 3 to 

 5 scales on preopercle flange. Scales with 22 to 24 basal striae, 

 apical 20 to 27; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, ninth spine 2% to 3 in head, first ray 2j4 to 33^; 

 A. Ill, 9, I, third spine 2ji to 3%, first ray 2J/^ to 2^^; caudal 1% 

 to 1^, slightly concave behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 234 to 2 >^; pectoral 1% to 1%; ventral 1^^ to IJ^. 



Body deep dusky green, head and breast dark neutral brown; 

 caudal peduncle posteriorly and caudal fin dull brown. Eye golden 

 brown. Teeth white. Dorsals neutral dusky. Anal grayish to 

 pale brown. Paired fins brownish. 



East Indian region. This species appears to approach Callyodon 

 ghobhan in its well-scaled cheeks, though its colors are largely uniform 

 and without any variegation on the head. 



Type.— C&t. No. 89977, U.S.N.M. 



5165. Iloilo market. June 1, 1908. Length, 244 mm. (Canines, upper, — 1; 

 lower, — 0; preopercle scales, 4 — 5.) 



9242. Rapurapu Island. June 22, 1909. Length, 225 mm. (Preopercle scales, 

 3 — 5.) Head slaty. Teeth very pale rose. Centers of scales above metallic 

 olive green, margins broadly slaty bluish on side of abdomen, with chrome 



