FISHES OF THE PHHiHTINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 73 



877 to 879 [189, 190]. Tataan, Simaluc Island. February 20, 1908. Length 133 

 to 140 mm. Yellowish olive green above and anteriorly, shading lavender on 

 head. Ocular bar almost obsolete, showing as very narrow dusky stripe above 

 eye and short blotch on lower orbit. On lower side about 6 pale lilac stripes 

 half pupil width, narrower than interspaces. Before eye, except small lavender 

 area, snout and lower head bright cadmium orange, continued across belly as 

 median sulphur yellow indistinct stripe. Purplish bar down shoulder under 

 opercular flap, continued as cadmium orange across pectoral base and in axil. 

 Large jet black blotch occupies most of dorsal posteriorly, reaching slightly 

 below level of caudal peduncle and forward to seventh spine; defining blotch 

 below curved white band width of eye. Tips of dorsal spines bright sulphur 

 yellow, below m.embranes pale; produced dorsal ray and bar downward on ver- 

 tical edge orange, set off from black by yellow; vertical edge with hyaline band 

 becoming white below, defined by black on each side. Anal broadly olive 

 basally, extreme tip dark and lemon yellow band wide as pupil submarginal, 

 below gray, black, orange, red, black, gray and yellow, colors most definite about 

 center of soft part and continued down vertical edge, all but orange lost on 

 spinous portion. Caudal hyaline white, tip crescentic orange bar, edges cad- 

 mium and rays with fine black lines. Pectoral hyaline, rays with narrow black 

 lines. Ventral bright sulphur yellow. 



498 and 4966. Tataan, Tawi Tawi. February 21, 1908. Length 148 to 180 mm. 



450. Doc Can Island. January 7, 1910. Length 129 mm. 



19789. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length 97 inm. 



6947 and 6949. West coast of Sabtan Island. November 8, 1908. Length 200 

 to 212 mm. 



4722 and 12906. Tobea Island. December 14, 1909. Length 92 to 101 mm. 



414. Togian Bay, Togian Island. November 19, 1909. Length 108 mm. 



127§9. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length 92 mm.. 



A1044 and A1053. Tidore Island, south of Ternate. Novemer 24, 19(^9. Length 

 199 to 205 mm. 



4688, 4689, 4692. Apra Bay, Guam. November 19-20, 1907. Length 71 to 

 135 mm. 



30589 U.S.N.M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length 155 to 175 mm. 

 Two examples. 



52503 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 70 to 170 mm. 

 Nine examples. 



62358 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. Dr. D. S. Jordan, 1908. 



83289 U.S.N.M. No locality, probably Hawaiian? Wilkes Exploring Expedition. 

 Length 25 mm. 



CHAETODON BENNETTI Cuvier 



Chaetodon bennetti Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 84. Sumatra. — 

 GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 12 (Amboina).— Play- 

 fair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1865, p. 33 (Zanzibar). — Gxjnther, Cruise 

 Curajoa, Brenchley, 1873, p. 410 (Misol, Moluccas). — Ahl, Arch. Naturg., 

 vol. 89, abth. A, Heft 5, 1923, p. 73 (German New Guinea; Mikindani, 

 East Africa; Apaman Island). — Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. 

 Sci., vol. 34, No. 1, September, 1927, p. 65, pi. 8, fig. 2 (southern Batan- 

 gas Province). 



Chaetodon bennettii Gxjnther, Journ. Mus. Godeflfroy, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 

 1874, p. 37, pi. 29, fig. 4a (Paumotus, Society Islands, Gilbert Islands, 

 Kingsmills). 



Coradion bennetti Kaup, Arch. Naturg., vol. 26, abth. 1, 1860, p. 147 

 (Sumatra). 



