FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 193 



648, 649. Lode Bay, Destacado Island. March 13, 1909. Length 105 to 125 mm. 



1259. Makes! Island. April 5, 1909. Length 77 mm. 



1084 to 1086. Masbate Reef, Masbate Island. April 20, 1908. Length 87 to 



108 mm. 

 911, 9671. Masamat Bay, Quinalasag Island. June 12, 1909. Length 92 to 



100 mm. 

 917. Nabatas Point, Samar Island. July 24, 1909. Length 120 mm. 

 445. Pandanon Island. March 23, 1909. Length 85 mm. 

 1316. Polloc. May 23, 1908. Length 125 mm. 



355 to 357, 604. Port Caltom. December 15, 1908. Length 73 to 130 mm. 

 1019. Port Matalvi. November 22, 1908. Length 96 mm. 

 1187, 1188. Port Matalvi. November 23, 1908. Length 76 to 92 mm. 

 633. Port Tilig. July 15, 1908. Length 12C mm. 

 633, 739, 747. Port Uson, west of Pinas Island. December 17, 1908. Length 



70 to 115 mm. 

 874. Ragay Bay. March 10, 1909. Length 67 mm. 

 729 [492]. Romblon. March 26, 1908. Length 108 mm. 

 545. San Juanico Strait. April 13, 1908. Length 70 mm. 

 4717 to 4719. San Miguel Harbor, Ticao Island. April 21, 1908. Length 83 to 



107 mm. 

 733, 734. Santa Cruz, Marinduque. April 24, 1908. Length 90 to 121 mm. 

 4853, 4854, 9393 to 9395. Surigao, Mindanao. May 8, 1908. Length 67 to 



113 mm. 

 4900. Talajit Island. March 15, 1909. Length 72 mm. 

 381. Tara Island. December 14, 1908. Length 150 mm. 

 592. Tara Island. December 15, 1908. Length 145 mm. 

 10400. Tilig. July 14, 1908. Length 129 mm. 

 898, 1057. Ulugan Bay, channel north of Oyster Inlet. December 28, 1908. 



Length 110 to 122 mm. 

 239. Ulugan Bay, Palawan. December 29, 1908. Length 95 mm. 

 513. Ulugan Bay, Rita Island. December 29, 1908. Length 88 mm. 

 551, 4735. Kayoa Island. November 29, 1909. Length 48 to 69 mm. 

 424. Togian Bay, Togian Island. November 19, 1909. Length 75 mm. 

 426,427,4729,4730. Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. Length 



34 to 65 mm. 



HOLACANTHUS SEPTENTRIONALIS Schlegel 



Holacanthus septentrionalis Schlegel, Fauna Japouica, Poiss., dec. 5-6, 1844, 

 p. 82, pi. 44. Nagasaki, Japan. — Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, 1846, 

 p. 246 (China).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 52 (no 

 locality).— Steindachner and Doderlein, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 Math.-Naturw. Kl., vol. 47, abth. 1, 1883, p. 24 (Tokyo). — Ishikawa and 

 Matsuura, Prelim. Cat. Fish. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 52. — Jordan and 

 Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1901, p. 756 (Yokohama).— Jor- 

 dan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 1902, p. 545 (Ikune, 

 Kiusiu). 



Holacanthus ronin Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 1902, 

 p. 546, fig. 6. Misaki and Wakanoura, Japan. 



A veiy handsome species easily known by its horizontal or longi- 

 tudinal blue lines, variably narrow or broader and sometimes extend- 

 ing on soft dorsal more or less parallel with the fin rays, then forming 

 the variety ronin. 



China and Japan. Reaches 164 mm. 



