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12970, 14640 [1703]. Laiigao Point, extreme southern Luzon. June 24, 1909. 

 Length 155 to 175 mm. Dark brown. Side of head with small orange spots. 

 No evidence of stripes on side of body. Caudal spine with black socket. 

 Dorsal and anal edged with black and few narrow bars on outer part of soft 

 dorsal. Likely black spot in dorsal and anal axils. Caudal edge nearly white 

 in fork. Pectoral without yellow. 



5440, 5441, 7463. Maculabo Island. June 14, 1909. Length 180 to 198 mm. 



21286. Malanipa Island. September 8, 1909. Length 138 mm. 



11211 to 11213. Matnog Bay. May 31, 1909. Length 172 to 180 mm. 



7428, 17162, 17539. Port Matalvi, Luzon. November 23, 1908. Length 140 to 

 158 mm. 



14169. Pujada Bay. May 15, 1908. Length 146 mm. 



12705. Reef of South Lagoon, Tumindao Island. February 26, 1908. Length 

 133 mm. 



11402, 19250 to 19252. Sabtan Island. November 9, 1909. Length 110 to 

 140 mm. 



15788. Sabtan Island. November 9, 1909. Length 150 mm. 



11923. Siasi Island market. February 17, 1908. Length 160 mm. 



12892. Simaluc Island. August 10, 1909. Length 164 mm. 



15831 [1993]. Sitauki reef northwest of Tumindao Island. September 24, 1909. 

 Length 145 mm. Brownish after fading. Side of head and breast with nu- 

 merous small orange specks. Dorsal with brown bars terminally and poste- 

 riorly, edge black and black blotch at axil. Anal like dorsal, bars nearly or 

 quite obsolete and edge of fin violet. Caudal with narrow whitish margin in 

 fork resting on black, fin otherwise like body. 



*1207 [1908]. Tictauan Island. April 8, 1909. Length 180 mm. Reddish 

 brown. Side of head and breast spotted with olive brown. Dorsal with pur- 

 plish edge, brown bars about equal interspaces. Anal like dorsal, darker. 

 Caudal narrowly tipped white in fork. Pectoral membranes hyaline. Ventral 

 like body color. No shoulder blotch. 



14517. Ulugan Bay, Rita Island. December 29, 1908. Length 168 mm. 



7342, 14009, 16462, 16463, 16464. West coast of Palaui Island. November 18, 

 1908. Length 103 to 128 mm. 



6966. West coast of Sabtan Island. November 8, 1908. Length 158 mm. 



A1554. Nan Wan, Formosa. January 25, 1910. Length 216 mm. 



Six examples U.S. N.M. Mauritius. Col. Nicholas Pike. Length 154 to 198 mm. 



51048 U.S. N.M. Hawaii. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 140 mm. As Hepatus 

 bipundatus. 



52340 U.S.N. M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 60 to 168 mm. 

 As Hepatus elongatus, but certainly with black spot at last dorsal ray bases and 

 also of anal, also caudal deeply lunate. 



One example (with 52496 U.S.N.M.). Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. 

 Length 58 mm. As Hepatus nigricans. 



55091 U.S. N.M. Hawaii. Albatross collection. Length 148 to 175 mm. Four 

 examples. 



66050 U.S.N. M. Truk Island. A/baiross collection. Lengtli 40 mm. As Teuthis 

 elongatus. 



55488 U.S. N.M. Honolulu. Dr. O. P. Jenkins. Length 190 to 273 mm. Three 

 examples. As Teuthis matoides. All have pale horizontal lines and smallest 

 without black spot at base of last dorsal and anal rays. 



50673 U.S.N. M. Honolulu, Bureau of Fisheries. Type oi Teuthis atramentatus. 



