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A. 1501 and A. 1502. Birabirahan Island, Borneo. December 31, 1909. 

 Length, 257 to 283 mm. (A. 1501, canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) 



A. 1191. Doworra Island, Dutch East Indies. December 2, 1909. Length, 

 283 mm. Shows purple lateral stripe, other colors not distinct, dorsal prob- 

 ably less brilliant red than in smaller specimen. 



A. 1313 and A. 1314. Tifu Bay, Bouro Island, Dutch East Indies. December 10, 

 1909. Length, 342 to 349 mm. (A. 1313, canines, upper 3 — 1; lower, 0—0; 

 A. 1314, canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0.) Teeth white; snout and lower 

 bead with vermilion wash, which fades away leaving it pink; breast and abdo- 

 men silvery with pink or reddish wash; middle of side with purple stripe laid 

 on iridescent gray; back slaty to olive; dorsal and caudal pale wine color; 

 anal and paired fins pink; pectoral dusky on upper ray; iris more or less golden. 



57845 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Type of Callyodon lati- 

 fasciatus. (Canines, upper, 2 — 2; lower, — 0.) Length, 285 mm. 



61152 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Paratype of Callyodon 

 latifasciaius. Length, 260 mm. 



CALLYODON BLOCHII (Valenciennes) 



Scarus blochii Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 219. 

 Java. — GmcHENOT, Notes I. Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 28. 



Scarus viridis (not Bonnaterre, 1788) Bloch, Naturg. Ausl. Fische., vol. 4^ 

 1790, p. 29, pi. 222. Japan. — Forster, Fauna Indica, 1795, p. 16. 



Pseudoscarus viridis Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 45, 

 pi. 17, fig. 3 (Java, Bawean, Duizend Islands, Sumatra, Singapore, 

 Biliton, Celebes, Amboina). — Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cher- 

 bourg, vol. 11, 1865, p. 33 (Bourbon and New Ireland). — Bean and 

 Weed, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 608 (Batavia). 



Scarus quoyi (part) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 273 

 (New Ireland). — Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, vol. 12, 

 1904, p. 544 (Padang). 



Scarus chrysopomus Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Labr.), vol. 22, 

 1849, p. 53. Batavia. 



Pseudoscarus chrysopoma GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1862, 

 p. 221 (East Indies).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 412, pi. 89, 

 fig. 2.— Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 38 (Cebu).— 

 Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 559 (Cebu). — GtJNTHER, Journ. 

 Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 307 (East Indies, Pelew Islands, 

 Ponape) . 



Pseudoscarus papuensis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 

 7, 1883, p. 590. New Guinea. 



Callyodon hadji Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4 (6), 1909, p. 525. 

 Puerta Princesa, Palawan. 



Callyodon philippinus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1918, p. 66, 

 fig. 26. Philippines. 



Depth 214 to 2^; head 2ji to 3, width 2 to 23^. Snout 2% to 

 2}4; eye 5^ to 7, 2}4 to 3K in snout, V/s to 2J^ in mterorbital; 

 mouth cleft 4 to 4^; upper hp covers teeth; canines rarely absent, 

 usually large and strong, variably 1 or 2 above or below each side; 

 interorbital 2}4 to 3, convex. Gill rakers 14 + 27, slender, short, 

 flexible filaments. 



Scales in lateral line 19 or 20, 4 or 5 + 2, tubes slightly branched; 

 2 scales above lateral line, 6 below, 7 or 8 predorsal; cheek scales in 



