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8862. Daet Point. June 15, i909. Length 215 mm. 



7044. Port San PiO Quinto, Camiguin Island. November 11, 1908. Length 

 263 mm. General color brownish, lines on body distinct. Oblong seal brown 

 shoulder spot, yellowish anteriorly at angle of gill opening. Distinct whitish 

 bar across tip of caudal peduncle. Head with numerous pale spots. Dorsal 

 and anal with alternate slaty and yellowish bars. Terminal upper half of 

 pectoral yellow. 



8984. Rapu Rapu Island and Strait. June 22, 1909. Length 255 mm. 

 Brown with longitudinal pale lines. Head with pale spots. Oblong blotch 

 on shoulder twice as wide as long, width about equals pupil. Dorsal and 

 anal apparently without blue edges, fins with many dark bars, about 8 on 

 dorsal. Caudal narrowly white at tip and in fork, white bar at base of fin. 

 Pectoral yellow at upper tip. 



Fig. 13.— Hepatus maculickps Ahl 



6897, 6898. Santo Domingo, Batan Island. November 7, 1908. Length 300 to 

 318 mm. Umber, with numerous narrow, slaty blue stripes; body becomes 

 yellowish on fading. Side of head with more or less obscure, hexagonal, paler 

 spots, size of number 8 shot. Dorsal barred alternately with yellowish umber 

 and slaty, stripes about M eye diameter. Similar, but very much obscured 

 stripes on anal and fin edge narrowly blue. Inside of caudal fork narrowly 

 white-edged. Pectoral with bright yellow spot on terminal third of second to 

 sixth rays. 



6929,6965,6971. West coast of Sabtan Island. November 8, 1908. Length 

 278 to 335 mm. Black shoulder mark distinct. Alternate yellowish and 

 darker stripes distinct on body but pale ones very narrow. Side of head and 

 nape with dark spots which fade to paler than ground color. Distinct yellowish- 

 white bar across caudal peduncle at caudal base. Dorsal and anal barred. 

 Pectoral with yellow on upper tip. 



A1083. Maitara Island. November 26, 1909. Length 322 mm. 



A1508. Birabirahan Island, Borneo. December 31, 1909. Length 320 mm. 



A978 to A980. Binang Unang Island. November 17, 1909. Length 260 to 305 

 mm. Deep dusky on side of body, narrow lines of blue slate, broader dark 

 brown lines fading olive. Dash of black behind upper angle of gill opening, 

 -elliptical, somewhat narrower than pupil, longer than orbit. Throat and 



