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anterior usually larger or its base equals or slightly greater than eye; 

 no bucklers in very young. 



Largely uniform brownish, but slightly paler below. Iris brown. 

 Fins all dull brown, dorsals and anals with longitudinal darker bands 

 crossing rays and spines obliquely. Paired fins uniform brownish, 

 hind ventral edge slightly paler. 



Red Sea, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, China, Japan, Melanesia, 

 Polynesia, Hawaii. 



9284. Basot Island, Pocket Bay. June 11, 1909. Length 195 mm. 



8951. Between Paron andJesus Points, Luzon. June 21, 1909. Length 453 mm, 



14900. Biri Channel. June 2, 1909. Length 110 mm. 



7872, 7873, 9819. Cagayan, Sulu Island. January 8, 1909. Length 218 to 342 

 mm. Generally new olive green fading to davy's. Dorsal and anal tips pur- 

 plish, perhaps blue in life; body of fin hyaline roman oclier, crossed by greenish 

 gray oblique lines; on dorsal lines extend over 12 membranes; on anal almost 

 parallel witli edge. Caudal body color, some greenish-white in fork. Base 

 probably yellowish in life. Fins with black spines, fading blue. 



4925, 4926. Casogoran, Malhon Island. July 27, 1909. Length 193 to 207 mm. 



5353. Cebu market, Cebu Island. April 4, 1908. Length 200 mm. 



5418. Cebu market. April 7, 1908. Length 540 mm. No horn. Upper surface 

 slate gray, lower white. Upper surface of caudal peduncle slate black, lower 

 surface white. Dorsals like body, but more or less mottled with dusky. Anal 

 spines and rays tipped with white, fin washed with yellowisli basally and some- 

 what dusky terminally. Caudal like body color but paler, broadly tipped 

 white in fork. Pectoral dusky, rays colorless. Ventral whitish, witli slight 

 yellowisli wash and some dusky on inner rays. 



[1843]. Cebu market. August 28, 1909. Length 134 mm. 



6063 [433]. Dumaca River, Luzon. February 25, 1909. Length 163 mm. 



7290. Gigoso Point, Quinapundau Bay, Samar Island. July 28, 1909. Length 

 205 mm, 



6362, 6366. Jolo, Jolo Island. March 7, 1908. Length 138 to 140 mm, 



14497. Langao Point, Luzon. June 24, 1909. Length 190 mm. 



5974. Little Santa Cruz Island. May 26, 1908. Length 250 mm. 



8513. Makesi Island, Palawan. April 5, 1909. Length 315 mm. 



9079, 9083, 9084. Malhon Island. July 27, 1909. Length 263 to 290 mm. 



6162. Mansalay, Mindoro Island. June 4, 1908. Length 520 mm. 



5446. Mantacao Island, Bohol. April 8, 1908. Length 518 mm. 



14319, 15517. -Palag Bay vicinity, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length 150 to 195 mm. 



15523. Pandanon Island. March 24, 1909. Length 50 to 194 mm. Five exam- 

 ples, small ones with pale ring around caudal peduncle. 



5898, 5899. PoUoc, Mindanao. May 22, 1908. Length 570 to 593 mm. 



6379, 6380, 18872. Port Jamelo, Luzon. July 13, 1908. Length 175 to 320 mm. 



7091 to 7095. Port San Pio Quinto, Camiguin Island. November 11, 1908. 

 Length 225 to 595 mm. 



7322. Sablayan Bay, Mindoro Island. December 12, 1908. Length 520 mm. 



4889. Siasi, Jolo. February 17, 1908. Length 285 mm. Called "pugut." Above 

 dingy olive, lower half of body dirty white. Narrow black line from above 

 upper angle of gill slit opposite eye to behind pectoral base. Iris black near 

 pupil, white terminally and upper section black. Teeth orange. Dorsals dull 

 green at bases, blackish medially, margin white. Anal mottled dull green bas- 

 ally, blackish line submarginal and pure white marginal line. Caudal dull 

 greenish brown, hind edge narrowly white. Pectoral pale green, free edge 

 whitish. Ventral rays green. 



