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mosa, China, Japan, Queensland, Micronesia, Polynesia. The species 

 is very variable in coloration. Some specimens are finely spotted 

 with dark brown all over the lower surface of the head and body. 

 According to Boulenger reaches 900 mm. Our materials seem to 

 show two fairly constant variations of color. In the first the throat 

 is with cross bars, the dark blotch on the caudal peduncle small and 

 the spots on the body relatively small. The second variation is with- 

 out cross bars, spot on caudal peduncle very large and spots on body 

 large and hexagonal. As evidences of intergradation occur we have 

 not attempted to list this material according to color variations. 



8079. Burias Island. March 5, 1909. Length 541 mm. 



5670. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. April 23, 1908. Length 246 mm. 



8801. Butauanan Island, east coast of Luzon. June 12, 1909. Length 317 mm. 



17178. Butauanan Island. June 13, 1909. Length 232 mm. 



5368. Cebu market, Cebu. April 5, 1908. Length 222 mm. 



5430. Cebu market. April 7, 1908. Length 237 mm. 



A1529. Doc Can Island, Sulu Sea. January 7, 1910. Length 367 mm. 



7531, 7533, 7587. Endeavor Strait, Palawan Island. December 23, 1908. 



Length 273 to 387 mm. 

 21588. Guiniyan Island, east coast of Luzon. June 4, 1909. Length 150 mm. 

 A474. Isabel, Basilan Island, south of Zamboanga. September 11, 1909. 



Length 287 mm. 

 4841. Jolo market. February 12, 1908. Length 267 mm. 

 22374. Maculabo Island, east coast of Luzon. June 14, 1909. Length 87 mm. 



(1662). 

 16914. Makesi Island, Palawan. April 5, 1909. Length 131 mm. 

 8600. Matnog Bay, east coast of Luzon. May 31, 1909. Length 390 mm. 

 6266. Medio Island, Galera Bay, Mindoro. June 9, 1908. Length 285 mm. 

 8060. Mompog Island, Anabayas Islands. March 3, 1909. Length 390 mm. 

 9031, 9032. Nabatas Point, Samar Island. July 24, 1909. Length 294 to 



380 mm. 

 5283. Romblon Harbor. March 25, 1908. Length 172 mm. 

 7313. Sablayan Bay, Mindoro Island. December 12, 1908. Length 427 mm. 

 21912. Sirinao Island, reef, Nakoda Bay, Palawan Island. December 31, 1908. 



Length 184 mm. 

 4948. Tataan, Tawi Tawi Group. February 20, 1908. Length 268 mm. 

 4952. Tataan. February 21, 1908. Length 351 mm. 

 228. Ulugan Bay, Palawan Island. December 29, 1908. (989.) Length 175 



mm. 

 A695. Si Amil Islands, vicinity of Darvel Bay, Borneo. September 26, 1909. 



Length 425 mm. 

 A1076. Maitara Island, Dodinga Bay, Gillolo Island. November 26, 1909. 



Length 450 mm. 



SERRANUS TAUVINA (Forsk&l) 



Perca tauvina Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xi, 39. Djedda, Red 



Sea. — BoNNATERRE,Tabl.Ichth., 1788, p. 131 (Red Sea). — Gmelin, Syst. 



Nat. Linn., vol. 1, 1789, p. 1316 (Arabia). — Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 



3, 1792, p. 340 (on Forskal). 

 Holocentrus tauvinus Suckow, Naturg., vol. 4, 1799, p. 523 (Arabia). — 



Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 338, 380 (Arabia). 

 Holocentrus tauvina Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 321 (Arabia). 



