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margin nearly black, with broad band submarginally of yellowish brown 

 nearly width of pupil and 3 similar bars less distinct on rest of each fin. 

 Caudal like body, with white basal bar turning gray in alcohol. Pectorals 

 yellowish, clear lemon yellow terminally above, hyaline below. Ventrals like 

 body, with yellowish shades on membranes. 



9238, 9240. Camp Overton, Mindanao. August 6, 1909. Length 260 to 560 

 mm. Drab brown, paler below with more lavender shade. Side of head and 

 upper body with scattered small blue or purple spots, more evident in fading 

 fish. Snout vermiculate with purplish lines. Yellow shade through eye. 

 Iris brown. Caudal spine black above, whitish in socket. Dorsal and anal 

 terminally olive, body color below yellow, longitudinal bands slaty. Tail 

 uniform. Pectoral terminally yellow about width of orbit. 



9110. Gigoso Point, Samar. July 28, 1909. Length 260 mm. 



9251. Inamucan Bay, Mindoro. August 8, 1909. Length 260 mm. 



5196. Jolo market. March 7, 1908. Length 283 mm. 



5973. Little Santa Cruz Island. May 26, 1908. Length 257 mm. 



6060. Little Santa Cruz Island. May 28, 1908. Length 590 mm. 



8812 to 8814. Maculabo Island. June 13, 1909. Length 255 to 290 mm. 



8509, 8510. Makesi Island, Palawan. April 5, 1909. Length 295 to 334 mm. 

 Slaty purplish most pronounced posteriorly, sometimes with distinct waved 

 lateral stripes on side medially. YeUow area before and behind eye. Margin 

 of dorsal and anal olive; usually 3 distinct olive bands on each below margin 

 in dorsal, lowest branching posteriorly; dorsal and anal bands very various, 

 usually 5 or more not including marginal. Caudal purplish, somewhat 

 marked with olive brown terminally but not forming a bar. Pectoral lemon 

 yellow terminally. Ventral body color, darkened with olivaceous. No 

 shoulder mark. 



6166. Mansalay, Mindoro. June 4, 1908. Length 332 mm. General color 

 rather light brown. Dorsal and anal with alternate slaty and orange bands. 

 Pectoral yeUow terminally and internally. 



9282 to 9284. Murcielagos Bay. August 9, 1909. Length 270 to 370 mm. 



A933. Pasejogo Island. November 16, 1909. Length 500 mm. Slate brown, 

 becoming bluish posteriorly; scarcely trace of stripes before caudal peduncle; 

 breast and lower head with obscure darker mottling; head and body anteri- 

 orly with more or less yellowish wash, becomes distinct as sort of stripe 

 through eye. Dorsal and anal broadly streaked with body color, afterward 

 fading to yellowish and slaty purplish. Caudal like body. Pectorals yellow- 

 ish, hyaline terminalh*. Ventrals tinged yellowish. 



7113, 7114. Port San Pio Quinto, Camiguin Island. November 12, 1908. 

 Length 245 to 260 mm. 



4887. Siasi Island, from fishermen. February 16, 1908. Length 354 mm. 

 Forehead and front part of back dark olive, posteriori}' from about middle 

 of dorsal and obliquely toward ventral base covered with indistinct plumbeous 

 vermiculations. Yellowish stripe through eye, yellowish following line of gill 

 opening about breast and pectoral axil. Iris brown with golden lines on 

 edges. Teeth brownish. Caudal spine dusky on under side, top of spine 

 black, keel colorless, socket greenish. Dorsal yellowish-olive, crossed by oblique 

 plumbeous bars, 3-i pupil width from in front upward; upper begins at first 

 spine base, rises to near tip of fourth, continued parallel to edge of vertical of 

 fin; above ground color more orange, narrowl}' margined black; other bars 

 6; fin base bluish plumbeous, forming narrow stripe about half pupil width. 

 Anal Hke dorsal, with hyaline at base very indistinct, verj' similar to body 



