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1 example, Guijulugan, Negros. April 2, 1908. [836.] 



1 example, Mactan Island. August 31, 1909. Length, 96 mm. 



1 example, north end of Endeavor Strait, northwest coast of Palawan. Decem- 

 ber 22, 1908. Length, 60 mm. 



2 examples. Port Matalvi, Luzon. November 23, 1908. Length, 57 to 63 mm. 

 72524. San Pascual, Burias Island. March 8, 1909. Length, 75 mm. [1243.] 



Ground color dusky green on top of head, anterior back, and posterior side; 

 lower head apple green; breast and abdominal region more yellowish (not 

 orange as shown in artist's sketch); markings on head vinaceous, limited by 

 narrow black line, beyond which broader bluish border, especially marked on 

 lower portion of head; these markings continue across shoulder, become much 

 darker, almost lost in blackish blotches across middle which cross middle of 

 side. Dorsal much as shown in sketch, colors somewhat brighter except reds, 

 which rather more vinaceous. Greens of caudal pale, not so yellow as shown 

 in sketch. Reds of anal vinaceous, rather than claret. Side almost covered 

 by four large blackish blotches; not shown at all in sketch; reds on the middle 

 of side shown are merged in black in specimen. 

 20305. Santa Cruz Island, Marinduque. April 24, 1908. Length, 70 to 78 mm. 

 4 examples. 



3 examples, Tobea Island. December 15, 1009. Length, 65 to 71 mm. 



HALICHOERES NIGRESCENS (Schneider) 



Labrus nigrescens Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 263. No locality. 



(On Seba, Thesaur., vol. 3, 1758, pi. 3, fig. 2.) 

 Halichoeres nigrescens Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 



118, pi. 37, fig. 4 (Java, Duizend Islands, Sumatra, Singapore, Banka, 



Biliton, Bah, Celebes, Burn). — Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 



26, 1906 (1907), p. 29 (Manila). — Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. 



Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 94 (Bulan). 

 Julis dussumieri Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 13, 1839, p. 478, 



pi. 387. Malabar. — Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18 (2), 1849, 



p. 1218 (Pinang). 

 Platyglossus dussumieri Gunther, Cat Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 143 



(Pinang, Chusan, China, types of Julis exornatus). — Gunther, Fishes of 



Zanzibar, 1866, p. 94 (Zanzibar).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, 



p. 399, pi. 85, fig. 1. — Klunzinger, Sitzs. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 80 (1), 



1879, p. 404 (Port Darwin). — Karoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 



5, 1881, p. 174 (no locality).— Day, Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, 



p. 405. — Regan, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, pt. 2, 1906, 



p. 330 (Persian Gulf), p. 332 (Karachi). 

 Choerojulis dussumieri Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 397 



(Nagasaki Bay). 

 Halichoeres dussumieri Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, 1914, p. 70 (Hong 



Kong). 

 Julis exornatus Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (Ich. China Jap.), 



1845 (1846), p. 258. China Seas, Canton, Hong Kong. 

 Julis {Halichoeres) notophthalmus Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. 



(Labr.), vol. 22, 1849, p. 20. Batavia. 

 Julis (Halichoeres) mola Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Nderl. (Enum. Pise. 



Ind. Aieh.), vol. 6, 1859, p. 98. 



Depth 2J^ to 33^; head 3 to 3)^, width 2 to 2}4. Snout 3 to 

 3M; eye 4^ to 6, 13^ to 23/3 in snout, 1% in to greater than inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches 3^ to 3 to eye, 3 5^ to 4% in head; inter- 

 orbital 4% to 53^, convex. Gill rakers 8 4-11, lanceolate, short. 



