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in crescent. Inside gill opening and all of folds of bones of head, 

 together with inside of mouth, orange. Iris yellowish, blue or brown 

 with preservation. Caudal margin narrowly gray white. Inside 

 pectoral rays blackish green, in young fin subterminally with large 

 dull brown blotch. Axil of pectoral livid orange. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines. A 

 very strongly marked species, easily known by its dark or blackish 

 coloration. 



15976. Bugsuk Island, North Balabac Strait. January 5, 1909. Length 132 mm. 



7857. Cagayan de Jolo. January 8, 1909. Length 262 mm. 



7736. Caxisigan Island, North Balabac Strait. January 2, 1909. Length 



315 mm. 

 12243. Lampinigan Island, south of Zamboanga. September 11, 1909. Length 



181 mm. 

 6790. Malanipa Island, east of Zamboanga. September 8, 1909. Length 



305 mm. 

 8370. Malapascua Island, north of Cebu. March 16, 1909. Length 410 mm. 

 9294. Murcielagos Bay, Mindanao. August 9, 1909. Length 229 mm. 

 8477. Rasa Island, eastern Palawan. April 1, 1909. Length 405 mm. 

 A659. Simaluc Sibi Sibi Island, north of Tawi Tawi. September 23, 1909. 



Length 214 mm. 

 7360, 7361. Tara Island, Mindoro Strait. December 15, 1908. Length 233 to 



241 mm. 

 A734. Danawan and Si Amil Islands, Sibuko Bay, Borneo. September 27, 1909. 



Length 325 mm. 

 A772. Mabul Island, Sibuko Bay, Borneo. September 29, 1909. Length 



252 mm. 

 A1174, A1184. Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. Length 332 



to 400 mm. 

 A1408. Tapiantana Island. December 21, 1909. Length 282 mm. 

 A1530. Doc Can Island, Sulu Sea. January 7, 1910. Length 282 mm. 



CEPHALOPHOLIS ALBOMARGINATUS, new species 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 3 to 3J/g, width 2 to 2V % . Snout 3% to 

 4 in head from snout tip; eye 5% to 6J^, V/2 to 1^ in snout, 1% to 

 2 in interorbital; maxillary very oblique, reaches opposite hind eye 

 edge or slightly beyond, expansion 1 to \ l /i in eye, length 1% to 2 

 in head from snout tip; teeth villiform, in narrow bands in jaws, at 

 least anteriorly, some of anterior inner upper ones little enlarged and 

 hinged; outer row of still larger ones around upper jaw with 2 wide 

 set front canines; lower jaw with 2 closer front canines, resolving 

 into 2 lateral rows of teeth, outer smaller though inner row of larger 

 teeth hinged and long as front canines; bands of villiform teeth on 

 each palatine and across vomer, none on tongue; nostrils together, 

 front one with tubular flap, apertures alike, close before upper front 

 eye edge; interorbital 3% to 4%, convex; hind preopercle edge very 

 minutely serrated, feebly or obscurely so with age; opercular spines 

 3, lowermost forward and median closer to lower. Gill rakers 9+ 17, 

 lanceolate, slightly longer than gill filaments or 1}^ in eye; 8 above 

 and 6 below rudimentary. 



