FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 487 



7056. Port San Pio Quinto, Camiguin Island. November 11, 1908. Length, 

 187 mm. (Preopercle, 1 — 1.) 



7499. Pujada Bay, Mindanao. May 15, 1908. Length, 153 mm. [625.] 



8965. Rapurapu Island and Strait. June 22, 1909. Length, 180 mm. [1816.] 



5685. Santa Cruz. April 24, 1908. Length, 250 mm. (Canines, upper, 1 — 0; 

 lower, 1 — 1; preopercle, 1 — 1.) Middle of upper side gray with purplish shades; 

 borders of scales reddish; front, back and top of head dusky green; interorbital 

 spotted and vermiculated with pink lines; teeth white; lower lip bluish green; 

 chin purplish, with narrow pink line across preorbital; lower interorbital region 

 purplish; throat line blue, continued across all of ventral edge; dash of green on 

 front of interorbital; cheek grayish green; broad green stripe from eye down- 

 ward through base of pectoral; posterior body and caudal peduncle dusky 

 green (viridian shade) ; breast and lower parts with purplish cast. Dorsal 

 front and margin antwerp blue, except last one and half rays; purplish gera- 

 nium line below of equal width; broader bar of green, becoming yellowish 

 posteriorly; basal portion royal purple on middle of fin, shading into geranium 

 at each end; last ray greenish. Caudal edged with antwerp blue; dull pur- 

 plish stripe below; body of fin purplish at base, dusky at tip, with bluish tints 

 throughout. Anal front and distal Yh antwerp blue, basal portion purplish 

 except last ray which blue; bluish median stripe below caudal peduncle. 

 Ventral bright blue, with pale purplish stripe on second ray. Pectoral dusky 

 straw color, base bright green, also axil and latter with black blotch at upper 

 edge. Iris brassy and pink. 



5013. Surigao, Mindanao. May 8, 1908. Length, 156 mm. 



12335 and 12336. Tara Island. December 15, 1908. Length, 173 to 177 mm. 

 (Preopercle in both, 1 — 1 [795, 796].) Bluish drab; top of head with brownish 

 mottling; caudal peduncle and caudal fin lemon yellow; dorsal blue in front and 

 margin; bod.y with orange shades; hyaline greenish indistinct central bar; anal 

 blue, margin with lilac base; ventrals blue; pectorals dusky, with slight orange 

 shade; blue throat line and chin band. 



18915. Tictauan Island. September 8, 1908. Length, 176 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0; preopercle, — 0.) 



18257. Teomabal Island. December 11, 1909. Length, 158 mm. 



7690 and 7691. Ulugan Bay, Palawan Island. December 29, 1908. Length 

 199 to 230 mm. (7960, canines, upper, 3 — 2; lower, — 0; preopercle, 1 — 0; 

 7691, preopercle, — 0.) [992.] Teeth dusky; blue bands on chin; front margin 

 and base of dorsal blue, orange body with few obscure green spots through 

 center. Anal front and margin blue, base slightly blue. Ventrals bluish. 

 Pectorals yellow. 



14511. Ulugan Bay, Rita Island. December 29, 1908. Length, 180 mm. 

 (Preopercle, 1 — 0.) 



CALLYODON NUCHIPUNCTATUS (Valenciennes) 



Scarus nucMpunctatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 

 224. Sea of the Indies. 



Pseudoscarus nuchipunctatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerl., vol. 1, 

 1862, p. 31, pi. 10, fig. 2 (Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Timor, Amboina, 

 Banda).— GuNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 233 (Pelew 

 Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Society Islands, Gilbert Islands, Yap, Ponape). — 

 GuiCHENOT, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Ch6rbourg, vol. 11, 1865, p. 35 (type). — 

 GtJNTHER, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1865, p. 107 (Zanzibar). — Martens, 

 Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 397 (Batavia). — GtiNTHER, Journ. Mus. 

 Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 323, pi. 157 (Pelew Islands, Fiji, Samoa, 

 Society Islands, Gilbert Islands, Yap, Ponape). — Weber, Siboga Exp. 



