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1152. Porongpong Island. June 11, 1909. Length, 265 mm. (Canines, 

 upper, 2 — 3; lower, — 0.) 



A. 535. Tambul Sigambul. September 15, 1909. Length, 238 mm. 



A. 1151. Gane Road, Gillolo Island, Moluccas, Dutch East Indies. December 

 1, 1909. Length, 237 mm. Head and back rosy brown; scale rows on side 

 with broad wash of brown forming stripe through each, large scales behind 

 pectoral with violet black, somewhat crescentic base bar and margin pale, closely 

 veined with brownish; caudal peduncle pale pink, abruptly separated from 

 brown ground color of side; fins plain vermilion; dorsal with very narrow 

 darker margin. 



A. 1046. Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 24, 1909. Length, 268 

 mm. (Canines, upper, 2 — 2; lower, — 0.) Side of head, along base of dorsal 

 and caudal peduncle viridian, rather emerald on back; ground color of top of 

 head and entire side and back, except as mentioned, dull greenish, much mottled 

 and vermiculated with dusky orange; teeth bluish; upper lip dusky orange; snout 

 broadly green, running into green of cheek, above bronzy orange bar limits 

 colored area of top of head; two dusky orange bars across chin, very narrow 

 orange margin on lower lip; lower side of head and breast with obscure reddish 

 mottling, similar to that of side, but not so pronounced. Dorsal blue above and 

 below, middle occupied by broad dusky orange bar with few blue hieroglyphics in 

 its central region, base of last three rays green. Caudal green, edges of lobes 

 narrowly blue and crescent of dusky orange or purplish, central portion occupy- 

 ing terminal scales (last two rows), horns extending to tip of lobes. Anal 

 largely slaty, with orange shade, front and margin blue, last ray green and 

 few blue areas at bases of rays under scaled sheath. Ventrals largely blue, 

 dashes of slaty or purplish in centers. Pectoral bright green, dull purplish or 

 slaty bar through upper half and some of the spots encroaching on scaled base. 

 Iris colored with reddish stripes invading. 



( Vermiculatus , vermiculate or with wormlike markings.) 



CALLYODON DUBIUS (Bennett) 



Scarus dubius Bennett, Zool. Journ., vol. 4, 1828, p. 37. Hawaiian 



Islands. 

 Pseudoscarus dubius GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 229 



(type, Fiji); Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, p. 313 (type. East 



Indies, Tahiti, Raiatea, Samoa, Marquesas Islands, Fiji). — Weber, 



Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 386 (Makassar, Sahbabu, Banda, Aru 



Islands) . 

 Callyodon dubius Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, 



p. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 350 (Honolulu). — Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., 



vol. 9, 1914, p. 70 (Hong Kong). 

 Scarus lacerta Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 217. Pon- 



dichery. 

 Pseudoscarus lacerta Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, vol. 11, 



1865, p. 33 (types). 

 Callyodon lacerta Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), 



p. 319 (Samoa); Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 31 (Iloilo).— 



Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 96 



(Bulan and Bacon.) 

 Scarus aeruginosus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 257. 



Red Sea. 

 Pseudoscarus aeruginosus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerl., vol. 1, 1865, p. 



40, pi. 17, fig. 2 (Java, Sumatra, Batu, Singapore, Biliton, Celebes, Halma- 



heira, Ternate, Timor, Ceram). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 



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