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7586. Endeavor Strait, Malampaya Sound, Palawan Island. December 23, 1908. 

 Length 280 mm. Ground color 3'ellowish or bronzed. Bars and vermiculations 

 slaty. 



4868. Jolo market. February 13, 1908. Length 232 mm. 



7916. Limbones Cove, Luzon. February 8, 1909. Two examples. Length 253 

 to 255 mm. General color olive yellow, in life bright lemon yellow merging 

 into slate white on lower surfaces. Top and side of head olive yellow. Brown 

 stripe or bar from chin though eye meeting across nape in predorsal, below eye 

 bordered by slaty blue and above dotted with round seal brown spots. On 

 back undulating narrow slate blue lines, these breaking into round dots anteri- 

 orly and posteriorly; first reaches from first or second dorsal spine to penulti- 

 mate; second broken far as seventh dorsal spine, then parallels first stripe; 

 below about 6 others breaking into round spots on caudal peduncle; below 

 these 4 or 5 very waved stripes; on anterior side vertical undulating stripes 

 about 10 to 12, reaching from second horizontal stripe to about level of lower 

 pectoral base; on lower side above anal base ground color as round yellow 

 spots. Dull orange arc on gill opening before front of pectoral. Vertical fins 

 yellowish near body color, without spots. Pectoral rays bright yellow, mem- 

 branes hyaline. Ventral pale. 



9002. Mactan Cove, Mactan Island. April 6, 1908. Length 141 mm. 



15795. Makesi Island, Palawan. April 5, 1909. Length 160 mm. 



6158, 6159. Mansalay, Mindanao. June 4, 1908. Length 238 to 255 mm. 



20297, 20298. Near Palag Bay, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length 215 to 238 mm. 



7968, 15654. Pagapas Bay, Luzon. February 20, 1909. Length 235 to 244 mm. 

 Generally lemon yellow, brighter posteriorly. Dark brown stripe from nape 

 through eye to chin about width of eye and numerous spots above eye within 

 bar; on fading spots occellate brov/nish centers and yellow rims. Stripes on 

 body bluish, vertical in suprapectoral region, horizontal above and posterior 

 and breaking into spots more or less on back anteriorly and caudal peduncle. 

 Fins below lemon yellow, membranes slightly hyaline, without spots or bars. 



15336. Port Palapag. June 3, 1909. Length 190 mm. 



12116 [925]. Port Uson, west of Pinas Island. December 17, 1908. Length 184 

 mm. Upper surfaces with olive and yellow tints. Vermiculating lines slate. 

 Lower surfaces pale. Fins distinctly yellow. 



8782. Quinalasag Island. June 12, 1909. Length 246 mm. 



8255. Saboon Island, Ragay Gulf. March 10, 1909. Length 248 mm. 



15766. Sacol Island. September 9, 1909. Length 112 mm. 



5715. Surigao, Mindanao. May 8, 1908. Length 292 mm. 



4962. Tataan Island, Tawi Tawi Group. February 21, 1908. Length 133 mm. 



A463. Tulnalutan Island. September 9, 1909. Length 233 mm. 



70855. Tutu Bay, Jolo Island. September 19, 1909. Length 92 mm. 



A1231, 19795. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length 98 to 250 mm. 



A1145, 9720. Kayoa Island. November 29, 1909. Length 150 to 225 mm. 



A954, A955. Sadaa Island. November 17, 1909. Length 266 to 300 mm. 



21377. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length 78 mm. 



71658 U.S.N. M. Nafa, Okinawa, Riu Kiu. Albatross collection, 1906. Length 

 203 mm. As Siganus tnarmoratus. 



SIGANUS VIRGATUS (Valenciennes) 



Amphacanthus virgatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 10, 1835, p. 

 133. Java. — Schlegel and MtJLLER, Verh. Nat. Ges. Nederland. Zool., 

 1839-44, p. 11, pi. 3, fig. 1 (Burn, Vanikoro, Timor). — Bleeker, Nat. 

 Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, p. 53 (Singapore); vol. 7, 1854, p. 

 227 (Macassar); vol. 8, 1855, p. 344 (Duizend Island); vol. 9, 1855, p. 228 



