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A. 507. Baluk Baluk Island. September 12, 1909. Length, 393 mm. (Canines, 



upper, 2 — 2; lower, — 0.) 

 10601. Cabugan Island, Hinunangan Bay, Leyte. July 30, 1909. Length, 212 

 mm. [1774.] General color smoky purplish, fading to gray; when faded 

 specimen on posterior portion of body shows yellowish green shades; darker 

 stripe through each scale, sometimes duplicated and sometimes omitted; 

 snout, lower head, and breast washed with duskj' vermilion; dorsal gray, 

 front and margin narrowly slaty, without bars; anal and caudal body color, 

 tipped with dusky; paired fins more or less rosy; pectoral darker, membranes 

 hyaline, with yellowish shades distally below. 



9139. Cabugan Island, Chico Island, Leyte. July 30, 1909. Length, 295 mm. 



7860. Cagayan, Sulu. January 8, 1909. Length, 439 mm. General color 

 when faded ultramarine ash on back; middle of side slightly more yellowish; 

 lower surfaces pearl graj'^, with strong salmon to scarlet wash; on scales of 

 upper side and back about four or five stripes of purplish, subdued by over- 

 shade of ash; head with more or less smoky purplish shades above; dorsal 

 body color, with red wash posteriorly, fleshy margin of spinous portion pale 

 slat}'; caudal and anal similar to posterior dorsal, wath strong scarlet red 

 wash; ventrals same; pectorals ash, slightly yellowish on upper portion; iris 

 golden; teeth dusky rose. 



8375. Calangaman Island. March 16, 1909. April 22, 1908. Length, 260 mm. 

 Pearly gray; teeth pale rosy; scales of middle of side and posterior half with 

 purplish stripe through each, giving rise to broken stripes along side; fins 

 without bars, of body color, slightly more reddish. 



9078. Casogoran, Malhon Island. July 27, 1909. Length, 296 mm. Teeth 

 pale dusky rose; lower head and breast dusky vermilion, becoming paler 

 posteriorly; side olive, with vermilion wash; dash of brown or purplish in 

 center of each scale behind tip of pectoral, more or less irregular, sometimes 

 duplicate, sometimes omitted; fins similar to body, but with more vermilion 

 wash; margins or tips slaty in vertical fins. 



5319 Cebu market. April 4, 1908. Length, 252 mm. Reddish olive, scales 

 edged narrowly with darker; darker blotch in center, giving rise to interrupted 

 stripes, becoming red on lower surface; upper lip reddish, lower pale; teeth 

 reddish; dorsal body color, edged w-ith darker; anal color of adjacent body; 

 caudal same; ventrals red; pectoral reddish above and basally, hyaline below 

 distally; iris golden. 



A. 594 and A. 595. Gondra Island. September 20, 1909. Length, 385 to 438 

 mm. (A. 594, canines, upper, 2 — 1; lower, — 0; A. 595, canines, upper, 

 1—2; lower, 0—0.) 



8876. Palag Bay vicinity, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length, 495 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1 — 1; lower, — 0.) 



A. 7315. Sablayan Bay, Mindoro. December 12, 1908. Length, 345 mm. 

 (Canines, upper, — 1; lower, — 0.) 



6915. Santo Domingo, Batan. November 7, 1908. Length, 553 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 1 — 2; lower, — 0.) Teeth rosy, white at tips; general color with rosy 

 shades, very dark above; dark showing as irregular stripes on scales on sides 

 and below; dorsal similar to body but more red, no bars; caudal and lower 

 fins quite red, without bars or markings; lower terminal portion of pectoral 

 hyaline; iris with golden. 



5218. Siasi Island market. February 17, 1908. Length, 201 mm. [125.] 

 General gi-ound color light heliotrope purple, margins of scales above darker; 

 indistinct bars of yellowish cast on under half of body; anterior and lower 

 part of head, breast, and belly with vermilion shades; interorbital region 



