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border of eye and hind one to hind border of eye; narrow blue line 

 from front of interobital medianly forward toward front of snout; all 

 frontal lines bordered narrowly with dusky. Paired fins and caudal 

 all pale or yellowish-brown, outer terminal portion of ventral with 

 blue margin line and dusky submarginal line. 



Red Sea, Zanzibar, Mauritius, East Indies, Melanesia, Micronesia, 

 Polynesia. The color-pattern variable with age. Small examples 

 show but 8 transverse bluish bands, with seventh forming blackish 

 ocellus on soft dorsal, blue borders curving and breaking for its 

 inception. In the very young trunk and tail with but 4 transverse 

 pale bands, intervening areas with only faint indication of dark band ; 

 head with 3 narrow transverse pale bands; large black ocellus on 

 soft dorsal larger than eye. 



1278. Alibijaban Island. March 6, 1909. Length 153 mm. 



4864 to 4866. Alimango Bay, Burias Island. March 5, 1909. Length 150 to 

 200 mm. Bars orange, not yellow as shown in Bleeker's plate. Bars about 

 eye bright blue. Snout and chin orange, head otherwise dusky, also not yel- 

 low as shown by Bleeker. Breast and bell}- soiled yellowish white. Spinous 

 dorsal orange, orange body bars change to yellow at fin base, then greenish, 

 crossing fin diagonally. Anal orange, bars purple. Soft dorsal purple; black 

 lateral band changing to purple along dorsal base. Tips of dorsal and anal 

 bright blue. Tail bright yellow. Paired fins dusky yellow. 



768. Busin Harbor. March 7, 1909. Length 185 mm. 



3926, 3927. Caxisigan Island. January 2, 1909. Length 71 to 115 mm. 



5376, 5395. Cebu market. April 5, 1908. Length 178 to 180 mm. 



5163. Jolo market, Jolo. March 6, 1908. Length 235 mm. 



4863. Murcielagos Bay, Mindanao. August 21, 1909. Length 100 mm. 



394. Near Palag Bay, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length 88 mm. 



928. Panabutan Bay. February 6, 1908. Length 150 mm. 



5920. Parang, Mindanao. May 23, 1908. Length 245 mm. 



454. Parang, Mindanao. May 23, 1908. Length 178 mm. 



1193. Port Dupon. March 17, 1909. Length 170 mm. 



525, 526. Port Galera, Mindoro. June 9, 1908. Length 160 to 184 mm. 



6382. Port Jamelo. July 13, 1908. Length 220 mm. 



632, 10298, 10465. Port Maricaban. July 21, 1908. Length 153 to 170 mm. 



1020, 3597. Port Matalvi, Luzon. November 22, 1908. Length 157 to 167 

 mm. 



7275. Port Matalvi. November 23, 1908. Length 174 mm. 



3879. Port Palapag. June 2, 1909. Length 115 mm. 



402. Port Palapag. June 3, 1909. Length 128 mm. 



795. Taganak Island. January 7, 1909. Length 155 mm. 



4945. Tataan, Tawi Tawi Group. February 20, 1908. Length 160 mm. 



6448. Tilig, Lubang Island. July 14, 1908. Length 216 mm. 



261. Tutu Bay, Jolo, second anchorage. September 19, 1909. Length 153 

 mm. 



456, 14403. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length 48 to 111 mm. 



2001, 3895. Danawan and Si Amil Islands. September 27, 1909. Length 36 

 to 77 mm. 



A1269. Uki, Bouro Island, Dutch East Indies. December 9, 1909. Length 

 178 mm. 



A1388. Labuandata Bay, Celebes. December 18, 1909. Length 200 mm. 



