196 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



1 example, Philippines. Length, 185 mm. 



6386 and 6387. Port Jamelo. July 13, 1908. Length, 243 to 250 mm. 



14258. Port Palapag. June 3, 1909. Length, 188 mm. 



4975. Ragay River. March 10, 1909. Length, 243 mm. Head light hooker 

 green, becoming darker on the back; centers of scales smoky, with margin 

 lighter; pale green on upper peduncle; middle of side washed with lemon 

 yellow; chin pale yellow, subopercle bluish above; breast washed with chrome 

 shading into greenish lavender on belly and becoming pale green below base 

 of anal and on lower peduncle; middle of peduncle blackish along lateral line; 

 sides of head, back and nuchal region covered by minute orange round dots; 

 the maxillary with an ochraceous stripe; preorbital mottled with the same. 

 Dorsal tipped with blue throughout; soft portion with dusky region anteriorly 

 and ochraceous bars and spots across entire fin. Caudal olive green, tipped with 

 orange and pale blue. Anal washed with citron yellow, edge pale blue, resting 

 on bright orange; a broad band through center, spotted with round orange 

 spots; a broken orange bar near the base. Ventral bluish green with orange 

 stripes on the second to fourth membranes. Pectoral pale lemon yellow, the 

 membranes hyaline; base crossed by indigo umber and indigo, umber con- 

 tinuing to gill-opening and clouding axil; a narrow dull ochraceous line divides 

 light and dark areas of side of head. Pupil with orange reflections; iris con- 

 centrically orange and green; lid margined with orange. 



5298 and 5300. Romblon. March 26, 1908. Length, 140 to 315 mm. 



21061. Sablayan, Mindoro. December 12, 1908. Length, 155 mm. 



5479. San Januico Strait. April 13, 1908. Length, 198 mm. 



11897, 12014, 22066. San Miguel Harbor, Ticao Island. Length, 121 to 199 

 mm. 



5015. South Tumindao, lagoon anchorage. February 26, 1908. Length, 225 

 mm. 



4029 (Dr. 5105). Sueste Point Light, Luzon, Philippines. Length, 199 mm. 



5815 and 5816. Tataibaga Point, Pujada Bay, Mindanao. May 15, 1908. 

 Length, 195 to 248 mm. 



6423 and 18955. Tilig, Lubang. July 14, 1908. Length, 170 to 190 mm. 



6478. Tilig. July 15, 1908. Length, 250 mm. 



7804 and 7805. Ulugan Bay, near Bahali River mouth. December 28, 1908. 

 3 examples. Length, 94 to 110 mm. 



7703. Ulugan Bay, Rita Island. December 29, 1908. 



6657. Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 23, 1908. Length, 272 mm. 



A1479. Cape Kait, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length, 277 

 mm. 



35717 U.S.N.M. Sadong, North Borneo. W. T. Hornaday. Length, 202 mm. 



1 example. 



56078 U.S.N.M. Bacon, Philippines. Philippine Commission. Length, 163 



mm. 

 58030 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 170 to 263 mm. 



2 examples. 



48626 A.N.S.P. PhiUppines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. Length, 



135 mm. 

 33254 A.N.S.P. Bacon. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 150 mm. 



CHOERODON ZAMBOANGAE (Scale and Bean) 



Choerops zamboangae Seale and Bean, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 

 November 21, 1907, p. 236, fig. 6. Zamboanga. 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2^ to 3^, width 2 to 2^. Snout 2}4 

 to 2}i; eye 4}/^ to 55^, 1 J^ to 2}/^ m snout, 1% to 1^ in interorbital; 



