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8332. Buang Bay, Talajit Island. March 15, 1909. (Canines, upper, 1 — 1; 

 lower, — 0; preopercle, 1 — 1.) Teeth white; top of head olive gray; back 

 similar, but paler; dorsal with dull slaty front and margin, body of fin reddish^ 

 with dashes of green on spinous rays and anterior soft membranes; caudal 

 smoky purplish; anal pale; ventrals same; pectorals hyahne lemon yellow, 

 most pronounced at base and upper portion; abdominal region with three 

 pale stripes; somewhat dusky at upper base of pectoral. 



8337. Same data. (Canines, upper, 2 — 2; lower, 1 — 0.) Teeth white; general 

 color gray, with marked olive overshade, most pronounced on head; whitish 

 stripes on abdominal region; fins unmarked; differs in extreme length of 

 upper Hp, which overhangs not only jaws but part of lower lip; slight reddish 

 wash on breast and ventrals. 



8338. Same data. (Preopercle, 1 — 2.) Teeth white; general colors gray and 

 olive; no marks on fins, whitish stripes showing on abdominal region. 



8339. Same data. (Preopercle, 2 — -1.) Teeth indigo; upper lip orange, some- 

 what purplish shade; lower lip very narrowly purple, behind which bright 

 blue, becoming green at corner of mouth; broad viridian band crosses snout, 

 passes backward under eye, and obscurely along opercle to below its point, 

 just below base of pectoral; short dash of green across eyeball, above and in 

 front; top of head olivaceous, continuing backward on nuchal region; sides 

 green, with magenta margins to scales on central portion; distinct green 

 stripe curves from base of pectoral toward abdominal contour, thence some- 

 what above base of anal to lower portion of caudal peduncle, separating 

 somewhat purplish green color, also portions of bodj' from greenish and 

 reddish above; front and margin of dorsal blue; base tambien, body orange 

 red; caudal green, becoming purplish at tip, with broad purpUsh-orange 

 stripe through each lobe; anal broadly blue on front, margin and base, body 

 orange red; ventrals blue; pectorals greenish. 



11631 and 15574. Bugsuk Island, Balabac. January 5, 1909. Length, 75 to 

 172 mm. 



9978, 15179. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. March 7, 1909. Length, 169 to 

 217 mm. 



7100, 7198, 9973 to 9977, 171. Same locality. March 8, 1909. Length, 125 to 

 191 mm. (9975, canines, upper, — 1; lower, 0—0; preopercle, 0—1.) [1247.] 

 Teeth white; general color olivaceous, with indistinct reddish brown shade; 

 dorsal very pale slaty at margin, under which pale reddish bar and a similar 

 reddish bar at base, central portion of fin olivaceous; caudal near body color 

 but with somewhat purplish shades; anal and ventrals pale, with slight reddish 

 wash; pectorals distinctly yellow at bases, becoming hyaline through fin 

 proper; obscure slaty bar behind chin; lower head and bod}' more reddish than 

 above. 



5663. Busin Harbor. March 23, 1908. Length, 253 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2 — 0; lower, — 0.) Emerald on back, becoming bluish lower or above pec- 

 toral, with slaty and pink shades on breast; scales narrowly edged with reddish 

 and slate anteriorly, becoming brighter on middle of body, posteriorly changing 

 to reddish bars at bases of scales; top of head more or less slaty or olivaceous; 

 narrow irregular green lines about edges of scales and across interorbital 

 region; snout geranium red, continued on preorbital till under eye; many ver- 

 miculating viridian lines; short similar lines radiating from eye; red spot at 

 middle of each lip; upper lip otherwise beryl; geranium band behind, and 

 viridian behind still posterior; lower lip pale blue, color projected backward 

 over chin; blue throat line; interopercular region alternately bluisli red and 

 green; subopercle with reddish margin and greenish inframarginal band; 

 cheek and lower opercle with orange shades; teeth white. Dorsal front and 



