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6999. Port San Pio Quinto, Camiguin Island. November 10, 1908. Length 

 157 mm. 



6906. Santo Domingo, Batan. November 7, 1908. Length 150 mm. 



209, 794. Taganak Island. January 7, 1909. Length 117 to 127 mm 



1166, 161. Tataan Bay, Simaluc Island. February 19, 1908. Length 82 mm. 

 Sulphur yellow, dusky above, pale on breast. An elliptical black blotch long 

 as head above axial region, slightly posterior to middle of body. Ocular band 

 begins before front of dorsal, ends on breast, widest just below eye and some- 

 what less than eye in width. Iris golden outside ocular band. Dorsal, anal 

 and caudal like body, edges narrowly hyaline submarginally nearly cadmium; 

 terminal half of caudal dusky hyaline. Pectoral dusky hyaline, yellow bas- 

 ally. Ventral bright sulphur yellow. 



A564. Teomabal Island. September 18, 1909. Length 150 mm. 



1050, 1051. Tulnalutan Island. September 9, 1909. Length 133 to 141 mm. 



962. West coast of Palaui Island. November 18, 1908. Length 144 mm. 



A1155. Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. Length 155 mm. 



666. Hokuho, Soo Wan, Formosa. January 29, 1910. Length 150 mm. 



656. Nan Wan, Formosa. January 25, 1910. Length 142 mm. 



A1593. Soo Wan, Formosa. January 29, 1910. Length 145 mm. 



CHAETOBON MACULICEPS (Ogilby) 



Meqa-protodon maculiceps Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 23, 1910= 



p. 14. Moreton Bay. 

 Chaetodo7i plebeius (not Cdvier) Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. 



Sci., vol. 34, No. 1, September, 1927, p. 28, pi. 6, fig. 1 (Tablas). 



Depth 1% to IH; head SVs to 3%, width IV5 to IJ/g. Snout 2% 

 to 3 in head; eye 3 to 3}/^, 1 to IJ/g in snout, 1 to l}i in interorbital; 

 maxillary % to ^ in snout, 3)4 to 4 in head; interorbital 3i^ to 4, 

 broadly convex. Gill rakers 7 + 14, short points, 3^ of gill filaments, 

 which 13^^ in eye. 



Scales 40 to 42 between gill opening and caudal base; tubes 30 to 

 32 in lateral line; 8 or 9 scales above lateral line, 16 to 19 below. 

 Scales with 6 to 9 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 70 to 96, 

 with 7 to 8 transverse series of basal elements. 



D. XIV, 16, I or 17, i, last spine 1% to 2 in head, fifth ray 1% to 

 1^; A. IV, 14, I or 15, i, second spine 1% to 1%, third ray 1^ to 

 1J4', least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3; caudal 1% to l}4, hind 

 edge broadly convex; pectoral l}/g to !}{; ventral 13^ to 1}4- 



Back brown, below pale brown to whitish. Each row of body 

 scales with median dark brown line or stripe, broader and darker 

 above lateral line. Large blackish longitudinal blotch along greater 

 part of lateral line and side of back. Black band from middle of 

 predorsal, not meeting its fellow, down through eye though only 

 little wider than pupil and reaching gill opening below, but not on 

 chest; margined with white line in front and behind. Black ocel- 

 lated blotch at upper part of caudal peduncle largely, little larger 

 than eye. Fins all dull brown, caudal broadly pale or grayish behind. 



