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8158 to 8160. Alibijaban Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 6, 1909. (8158, 

 canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, 0^0; 8159, canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0; 

 8160, canines, upper, 1 — 2; lower, — 0.) Teeth indigo; lips blackish scarlet; 

 general color, very dark green, bluish rather than clove; borders of dorsal and 

 anal dark china blue on narrow black line; interopercular region, breast, belly, 

 and paired fins very dark purplish; body of dorsal and broad stripe at caudal 

 lobes orange purplish; middle portion of caudal about body color at base, blue 

 at tip, and yellowish green just in front of tip. 



8105 and 16069. Alimango Bay, Burias Island. March 5, 1909. Length, 205 

 to 250 mm. (8105, canines, upper, 3 — 2; lower, — 0; 16069, canines, upper, 

 2—1; lower, 0—0.) 



6498 and 6499. Balikias Bay. July 17, 1908. Length, 230 to 273 mm. (6498, 

 canines, upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) Very dark green, fading to claret brown, 

 scales narrowly bordered with brown. Teeth green. Upper lip broadly red, 

 lower narrowly; dark green band across nose and chin, second behind on chin 

 and continued on throat as bluish. Bluish stripe near lower edge of inter- 

 opercle; another above on lower preopercle edge crossing into edge of inter- 

 opercle; green stripe from mouth corner till under eye; short stripes radiating 

 about eye. Front and edge of dorsal and anal narrowly blue, also caudal 

 edges; general color of dorsal, purplish with terminal orange shades; anal 

 similar, but with more green; caudal tipped blue, body green, lobes with 

 purplish shades; ventral purplish, front blue; pectoral soiled purple. 



7962. Baluk Baluk Island. SeptenajDer 12, 1909. Length, 295 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0.) General color, very dark smokj^ gray. Vertical 

 fins and ventrals edged blue. Teeth blue. Lips dusky rosy. 



12123. Biri Channel. June 2, 1909. Length, 178 mm. 



8077. Burias Island. March 5, 1909. Length, 275 mm. (Canines, upper, 

 2—2; lower, 0—0.) 



5614 and 5615. Busin Bay, Burias Island. April 22, 1908. Length, 293 to 300 

 mm. Viridian green; teeth same color, more blue; edges of scales narrowly 

 claret; slaty overshade on body from dorsal downward behind pectoral; on 

 shoulder bright yellowish green ocellus, with purple rim; head dark olivaceous 

 with reddish shades about eye and across snout; upper lip broadly orange, 

 with brilliant green band behind; lower lip narrowly orange, with bluish behind ; 

 purplish band across chin; cheek somewhat uniform green; suborbital and 

 interopercle mottled with green and purple, purple running around edges of 

 opercle; throat line green; edges of opercle and branchiostegal membrane 

 purple; breast purple. Dorsal narrowly on front and margin blue, body claret, 

 with green mottlings in center; caudal edged and tipped with blue, with broad 

 heliotrope purple stripe on each lobe; center of fin dusky green; anal front 

 and tip blue, central portion bronzy, without luster, membranes striped with 

 dark green; paired fins purple; front and tip of ventral blue; iris reddish and 

 golden. 



5650, 6839, 6840. Busin Bay, Burias Island. April 23, 1908. Length, 230 to 

 377 mm. (6839, canines, upper, 1 — 2; loAver, — 0.) Purple black, greenish 

 shades still evident in some lights, paling to claret brown below, edges of scales 

 darker; teeth antwerp blue; upper lip broadly red, broader than purple; dark 

 green band behind followed by reddish; lower lip narrowly red, with greenish 

 and slaty band behind, slaty centrally, projecting somewhat backward; blue 

 longitudinal line on throat; area behind first chin band backward to opercle 

 claret brown; bar of green and slate across front of interopercle, and more or 

 less vermiculated mottling of dark green Ijchind; broken green band on pre- 

 orbital passing backward under eye; another above eye; short dash behind 

 middle of eye; line above eye continued backward as interrupted spots, last 

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