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throat and breast ochraceous, shading with purplish on belly; some of scales of 

 three lower rows and at base of caudal with bright green spots. Cheek and 

 opercles below green; crescent of the same color across nose, points in eyes. 

 Dorsal front and edge prussian blue, somewhat paler on soft rays; membranes 

 of spinous portion orange; spines dusky greenish blue; orange almost crossing 

 under blue margin; soft membranes yellowish purple near base, spines dusky 

 bluish green at base; both rays and membranes under blue margin bright green; 

 last ray green. Caudal lobes blue at edges; broad orange stripe below, central 

 portion bright green, slightly yellowish at tips. Front and margin of anal 

 bright blue; bar from base of second spine to tip of penultimate ray orange 

 about width of eye; below bright green. Ventral front pale blue, with orange 

 behind, remainder of fin pale green; rays somewhat orange. Pectoral smoky 

 purple, first ray dull indigo; last ra}^ and tips of others green, becoming dusky 

 hyaline. Irish golden, encircled with blue. Orbit ochraceous. 



11305. Palag Bay vicinity, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length, 129 mm. 



14360. Paron Point, Albay Gulf, Luzon. June 21, 1909. Length, 143 mm. 



8747 and 8757. Porongpong Island. June 10, 1909. Length, 212 to 268 mm. 

 (8757, preopercle 2 — 1.) 



8968. Rapurapu Island and Strait. June 22, 1909. Length, 280 mm. 



19099. SiUno Island. August 10, 1909. [1809.] Length, 193 mm. Teeth 

 green; green stripe behind chin upward across preorbital to eye; few dashes of 

 green radiating about eye and some spots on cheek; body olive brown, few 

 whitish spots on sides, particularly posteriorly; margins of dorsal and anal 

 slaty, bluish along base of dorsal; caudal body color, with numerous ismall 

 round blue spots about half diameter of pupil. 



5712. Surigao, Mindanao. May 8, 1908. Length, 238 mm. 



12489. Tara Island. December 14, 1908. Length, 205 mm. 



6410, 6418, 6419. TiUg, Lubang. July 14, 1908. Length, 240 to 405 mm. 



7169. West coast of Palaui Island. November 18, 1908. Length, 224 mm. 

 Very dark, perhaps obvaceous. Teeth indigo. Narrow blue band on cheek. 

 No stripes on throat. Fins not marked, similar to body, but darker. 



A. 870. Limbe Strait, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length, 

 320 mm. 



A. 1047, A. 1048, and A. 1049. Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 24, 1909. 

 Length, 303 to 338 mm. Jaws indigo; general color purplish slaty; 748 shows 

 no whitish spot; few present in 749, somewhat obscure ones in 747; fins with- 

 out bars; general color of body becoming darker distally; iris orange. 



52389 U.S.N.M. Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. 2 examples. Length, 220 to 

 240 mm. As Callyodon prasiognathus. 



CALLYODON MURICATUS (Valenciennes) 



Scarus muricatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 208, 

 pi. 402. Java. 



Pseudoscarus muricatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1,1862, p. 26, 

 pi. 7, fig. 3 (Java and Moluccas). — Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, 

 vol. 14, 1885, p. 38 (North Celebes). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 

 1895, p. 560 (C. de Mindoro). — GxInther, Journ. Mus. GodeflFroy, vol. 8 

 (16), 1909, p. 316 (Ponape, Pelew Islands, Solomons). 



Callyodon muricatus Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 

 1905, p. 789 (Negros). 



Scarus gibbosus (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. 

 N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 27 (name in synonymy). 



