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1G099, 16100, 16107. Cataingan Bay. May 14, 1909. Length 78 to 101 mm. 



23196 to 23202. Catbalogan, Samar. April 15, 1908. Length 94 to 102 mm. 



Forty-one examples. Catbalogan. April 16, 1908. Length 97 to 120 mm. 



15062, (18514, 1306), 23782. Canmahala Bay, Luzon. Length 59 to 93 mm. 

 March 11, 1909. 27 examples. 



23339, 23498. Endeavor Strait, Palawan Island. December 22, 1908. Length 

 86 to 92 mm. 



17334, 17349. Isabel Channel, Basilan Island. September 11, 1909. Length 

 100 mm. 



5317 to 5325 (412, 413). Jolo. March 6, 1908. Length 101 to 120 mm. Gen- 

 eral color pearl gray, washed with yellowish on breast and back somewhat 

 dusky. Top of head smoky. Median longitudinal indistinct dusky stripe, 

 showing somewhat brownish posteriorly on caudal peduncle. Narrow orange 

 brown line around dorsal, forward till between eyes where reddish brown. 

 Second line begins behind snout tip passes above eye as red brown line, breaks 

 into series of orange spots beginning on shoulder; these fuse more or less 

 posteriorly and vanish about anterior or middle of caudal peduncle. Round 

 orange spots on cheek and opercle. Front of upper jaw bluish, continued as 

 line to lower front of eye and narrow brown line above. Iris with bright sap- 

 phire shades. First dorsal with yellowish shades, membranes almost lemon; 

 spines gray. Second dorsal washed with greenish yellow. Anal pale, washed 

 with dull cadmium, narrow bluish white subbasal bar contrasts with brighter 

 cadmium basal bar. Pectoral pink. Ventral yellowish, tip of first ray pink. 



15014, 23148, 23149, 23301 to 23303. Makesi Island, Palawan. April 5, 1909. 

 Length 54 to 92 mm. 



18571, 24041, 24042. Malanipa Island, east of Zamboanga. September 8, 1909. 

 Length 66 to 71 mm. 



17133. Murcielagos Bay, Mindanao. August 20, 1909. Length 107 mm. 



17649, 23822 to 23824. Pandanon Island. March 23, 1909. Length 102 to 

 107 mm. 



15946, 15947. Pangasinan Island, vicinity of Jolo. February 13, 1908. Length 

 57 to 68 mm. 



Eleven examples. Pangasinan Island. February 13, 1908. Length 62 to 

 72 mm. 



23233. Port Ciego, Balabac. January 3, 1909. Length 77 mm. 



17167. Port Matalvi, western Luzon. November 23, 1908. Length 67 mm. 



24038, 24039 (919). Port Uson, west of Pinas Island. Length 87 to 88 mm- 

 Translucent gray, belly with white shades. Top of head dusky. Side iri- 

 descent pink, with longitudinal bronze lines through nape and dividing around 

 dorsals, almost obsolete on caudal peduncle. Bronze line begins at snout, 

 horizontal till beyond dorsals; another through eye and middle of side, end- 

 ing as three yellow dots on caudal peduncle, also small black basal caudal blotch 

 just above. About 5 bronze orange blotches on opercle, 2 on cheek and third 

 on interopercle. Iris often with purplish shades. First and second dorsal 

 spines iridescent, second membrane yellowish, with black blotch at tip. Second 

 dorsal spines all iridescent; fin orange terminally. Anal and ventral like 

 dorsal. Caudal orange. Pectoral hyaline pink. 



Thirty-six examples. Reefs of South Lagoon, Tumindao, Sulu Archipelago. 

 February 26, 1908. Length 51 to 101 mm. 



6400. Rasa Island, Mantaquin Bay, Palawan. April 1, 1909. Four examples. 

 Length 64 to 69 mm. 



18641. Saboon Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 10, 1909. Length 97 mm. 



One example. Simaluc, Bisibisi Island, north of Tawi Tawi. September 22. 

 1909. Length 69 mm. With isopod crustacean on left predorsal. 



