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D. XIII, 10, I, fifth spine 214 to 2^^ in head, fifth ray \^ to l^^; 

 A. VII, 9, I, fifth spine 1% to 2, second ray 1% to 2}/^; caudal 

 emarginate, well forked with age, 3% to 3% in combined head and 

 body; least depth of caudal peduncle 3% to 5 in head; pectoral 1^ 

 to 11/^; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Back and upper surfaces brown, below gray-white to white. 

 Brown band crosses chin, then up behind maxillary to eye and above 

 to procumbent spine at front of spinous dorsal; within its area above 

 eye are 7 to 12 dusky, rounded, well-spaced spots. Iris yellowish to 

 olivaceous. Body with 8 longitudinal gray-blue lines in young; with 

 age increasing to about 15, of which front ones interrupted above 

 pectoral as obliquely vertical lines, while longitudinal lines may be 

 broken, irregular, or even waved inplaces. Fins all pale or dull uni- 

 form brown, paired ones, caudal and anal pale to whitish in young. 



East Indies. The coloration changes in many cases with preser- 

 vation, often the blue lines turning to deep brown bands. Though 

 quite variable in the details of the blue lines the design is quite 

 constant. 



8361, 8364. Atulayan Island. June 18, 1909. Length 238 to 248 mm. One 

 example. 



Batan Island. June 5, 1909. Length 193 to 265 mm. Two examples. 



A582. Busbus Point, Siasi Island. September 20, 1909. Length 243 mm. 



16189. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. March 7, 1909. Length 206 mm. 



7842. Busin Harbor. March 8, 1909. Length 208 mm. 



5630. Busin Harbor. April 22, 1908. Length 300 mm. 



9141. Cabugan, Chico Island. July 30, 1909. Length 262 mm. 



7870, 7871. Cagayan, Sulu. January 8, 1909. Length 275 to 287 mm. Ground 

 color lemon yellow, probably olivaceous or olive green on back in life. Dark 

 bar through eye from chin to nape. Head above smoky purplish or blackish. 

 Nape and back anteriorly with many small slate blue spots, perhaps brown on 

 ocular bar fading to gray yellow; undulating lines or stripes of blue on back 

 and side posteriorly running more or less longitudinally and above pectoral 

 more or less vertically, breaking into dots about soft dorsal and at caudal 

 base. Breast with obscure purplish lines and reticulations. Fins bright 

 yellow, except ventrals, which whitish. 



7798, 7862, 7863. Candaraman Island, Balabac. January 4, 1909. Length 200 

 to 253 mm. 



8026. Capulaan Bay, Leyte. February 24, 1909. Length 260 mm. 



13930. Cebu market. April 4, 1908. Length 153 mm. 



5380. Cebu market. April 6, 1908. Length 175 mm. Back olive, washed with 

 yellow, latter brighter 'anteriorly. Seal brown bar from nape through eye to 

 tip of chin, broken into round spots above eye. Cheek and upper part of 

 opercle sulphury yellow, edge of opercle and interopercle white. Forehead 

 and snout above washed with yellow. Side of body marked with numerous 

 waved blue pale lines, more or less parallel to outline except on shoulder, 

 where obliquely vertical for about 34 distance of depressed pectoral — above 

 shoulder under spinous dorsal — and as lines of broken roundish spots; some- 

 what same at caudal base. Iris dusky with some golden. Area before pecto- 

 ral base and above markedly tinged with orange^ Vertical fins like body but 

 more yellowish. Anal base pale. Pectoral hyaline yellow. Ventral soiled 

 white with yellowish wash terminally. 



