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16037. Sulade Island. September 18, 1909. Length, 118 mm. [1949.] Green 

 above, paler below, side of head becoming yellow; bases of scales with somewhat 

 reddish vertical bar; head with broad orange spots and stripes; scattered 

 stripes on top of head between eyes, about half diameter of eye; broad stripe 

 across preorbital, one in continuation of this behind eye, separated from orbit 

 about distance of pupil; another from lower edge of ej-e toward point of opercle; 

 tip of opercle orange; broad stripe from corner of mouth slightly curving down- 

 ward to opposite lower edge of pectoral base; obscure stripe along lower edge of 

 cheek. Dorsal pale greenish, with oblique vermilion bars extending down- 

 ward and backward; black spot on base of first two membranes, above lemon 

 yellow; tips of membranes scarlet. Caudal emerald, crossed by four pale red 

 bars, tip of similar color, joined by cross lines with adjacent bar. Anal similar 

 to soft dorsal, but paler. Ventrals verj^ pale emerald hyaline, dash of red in 

 second membrane. Pectorals hyaline black across base exteriorly. 



14295. Teomabal Island. September 18, 1909. Length, 118 mm. 



56177 U.S.N. M. Luzon. Philippine Commission. Length, 122 mm. 



HALIGHOERES KALLOCHROMA (Bleeker) 



JuUs (Halichoeres) kallochroma Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 4, 



1858, p. 289. Priaman, Sumatra. 

 Platyglossus kallochroma Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerl., vol. 1, 1862, 



p. 108, pi. 42, fig. 4 (Sumatra and Nias). — Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 159 (East Indies). 

 Platyglossus flos-corallis Jokdan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 



1905 (1906), p. 299, pi. 46, fig. 2. Pago Pago, Samoa.— GtJNTHER, Journ. 



Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 269 (on above). 



Depth 3 to 3K; head 3 to 3^, width, 2% to 2i/^. Snout 2>g 

 to 3; eye 5 to ^%, \% to IJ^ in snout, 13^ to 13>^ in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches half way to eye, 4^ to 5 in head; interorbital 

 43^ to 4^, convex. Gill rakers 6+ 12, short weak points. 



Scales in lateral line 22 or 23, 5+ 1 ; 4 scales above lateral line, 9 or 

 10 below, 9 or 10 predorsal. Scales with 30 to 46 basal radiating 

 striae, apical 25 to 37; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 12, I or 13, I, ninth spine 3 to 334 in head, first ray 2%: 

 A, III, 12, I, third spine 43^^ to 53^, first ray 33^ to 3^; caudal 13^ 

 to 13^, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 to 2Ys; 

 pectoral 13^ to 1%; ventral 13^ to 13^. 



Body brown generally. Each row of scales on trunk with small 

 round grayish basal spot, on side of abdomen variously larger. Head 

 bluish, with 4 or 5 longitudinal brown lines, variable, 1 always from 

 rictus toward pectoral origin. On side of chest and breast and 

 below pectoral base several distinct longitudinal brown lines, some- 

 times extending well back towards anal. Dorsals and anals dark 

 heliotrope purple, variously spotted and with short bars of deep 

 brown; edges of fins broadly creamy. Caudal with broad cuneate 

 blotch of dark heliotrope-purple, blotched, spotted or barred with 

 deeper or brownish; margin of fin creamy, especially each corner. 

 Paired fins pale 'brownish. Pectoral with neutral black blotch at 

 origin. Iris pale straw color. 



