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with submarginal dusky lines and reticulating dark lines over greater 

 median or outer areas. Caudal base with transverse pale band, 

 outer half with dark spots or bars. Pectoral olive, basally blackish. 

 Ventral with dusky rays, membranes transparent. 

 Zanzibar and Reunion to the East Indies. 



5320. Cebu market. April 4, 1908. Length, 206 mm. 



5394. Cebu market. April 7, 1008. Length, 234 mm. 



8431. Cebu market. March 24, 1909. Length, 249 mm. 



6540. OB Daet, from Hne fisherman. June 15, 1909. Length, 233 mm. 



A1201 and A1202. Doworra Island. December 2, 1909. Length, 248 to 263 mm. 



6593. Maricaban Island, near Depoc Point. July 21, 1908. Length, 198 mm. 



19190. Tulnalutan Island. September 9, 1909. Length, 202 mm. [1918.] 



12864. Tifu Bay, Bouro Island. December 10. 1919. Length, 190 mm. 



13491. Uki River, Bouro Island. December 9, 1909. Length, 193 mm. 



A1189. Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. Length, 256 mm. 



13615. Una Una Road, Binang Unang Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. Novem- 

 ber 18, 1909. Length, 177 mm. [2048.] Dark vermilion on nape and along 

 base of dorsal, covering most of opercle; side and posterior part of body largely 

 olive vermilion, scales with red brown spot at base, these more or less bar-like 

 anteriorly and above, becoming circular below and on peduncle, continued on 

 side of breast and belly. Head dark olivaceous; bright blue line from snout 

 above premaxillary downward along lower cheek; opercle edged with bluish; 

 about four obscure indigo stripes from snout backward through interorbital 

 region; teeth bluish at base; lower lip and chin dusky carmine; upper lip dusky 

 orange. Dorsal ground-color vermilion, margined with Prussian blue, body of 

 fin mottled and streaked with dark. Anal more olive toward margin, rays 

 reddish, edge of fin blue; two bars of dark blue through body of fin, one at 

 about inner third, second composed of oblique dashes through outer half. 

 Caudal nearly black, tipped with white and more or less shaded with blue. 

 Ventrals blue in front, rays otherwise blackish. Pectoral first short ray blue 

 above, others j^ellow; membranes hyaline; base of fin very dark. 



WETMORELLA, new genus 



Type. — Wetmorella pMlippina, new species. 



Distinguished from all known labroids by the presence of a single 

 large scale entirely covering the cheek. 



This genus is unique in its large cheek scale, though in superficial 

 resemblance greatly suggests the young of Epihulus. 



(For Dr. Alexander Wetmore, assistant secretary, United States 

 National Museum, in slight appreciation of his interest in our work 

 on Philippine ichthyology.) 



WETMORELLA PfflLIPPINA, new species 



Depth 23^ to 2^; head 2>^ to 2>^, width 2}4 to 2}4. Snout 3% 

 to 33^; eye 3}4 to 4, 1 to 13^ in snout, 1 or more in interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches M to ^ to eye, 4 to 4% in head; lips narrow; 

 interorbital 3^ to 43^, broadly convex. Gill rakers 5 + 8, short 

 rudiments. 



