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Ked Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Natal, Reunion, Mauritius, India, 

 Ceylon, Andamans, East Indies, Philippines, Cochin, China, For- 

 mosa, Riu Kiu, Japan, Melanesia, Polynesia. 



Cuvier's figure of Diacope rivulata shows the vertical fins and 

 ventral quite dark, though my materials do not have them especially 

 dark and the ventrals are only slightly dusky terminally. Cuvier's 

 figure also does not show the bluish lines across the interorbital or 

 the front of the head and lacks the white spot on the lateral line. 

 The Kalee niaee of Russell, though rather fantastic as he figures it, 

 it surely synonymous. 



Mesoprion miyriaster of Lienard, according to Sauvage is olive 

 green, little paler below. Cheeks yellowish green, below rose and 

 anteriorly with blue lines with darker borders. Body covered with 

 small, clear blue dots. According to Day, after reaching 381 mm. 

 the white spot on the lateral line disappears, though the white dots 

 strewn over the body scales persist. 



8617. Biri Channel, Balicuatro Islands. June 1, 1909. Length 633 mm. 



7833. Bugsuk Island. January 5, 1909. Length 375 mm. 



12872. Cotabato, below mouth of Rio Mindanao. May 20, 1908. Length 146 

 mm. [637.] Olivaceous; bluish specks at bases of scales, most marked above 

 anteriorly ; head washed with yellowish, with blue stripes running across 

 forehead and interorbital region and longitudinally under eye ; dorsal yel- 

 lowish olive ; incised tips of membranes orange, carried somewhat across 

 soft dorsal ; caudal similar to soft dorsal, edges of lobes brownish ; anal 

 similar to other verticals but much darker in front and at margin; ventral 

 blackish ; pectoral yellowish, dusky at base and in axil. 



22166. Davao, Mindanao. May 16, 1908. Length 57 mm. 



7487, 7507. Endeavor Strait, near anchorage, Palawan. December 22, 1908. 

 Length 280 to 374 mm. 



6097 to 6099. Iloilo market, Panay Island. May 31, 1908. Length 200 to 288 

 mm. Back and upper side yellowish olive, fading to nearly gray. Lower 

 surfaces white, with dusky and dull reddish shades, red most marked in 

 small example. Each scale of back with small bluish white spot in center of 

 base, become more irregular posteriorly and diffuse on middle of side. White 

 blotch about size of pupil on and above lateral line about under third soft 

 dorsal ray. Head with more yellowish shades, crossed by numerous more or 

 less wavy narrow bluish lines limited by dark one either side, these ap- 

 parently increasing with age. Interopercle dull red, with reticulating lines, 

 otherwise like rest of head and colors continued on mandible base distinctly 

 in younger example. Dorsal dusky yellow, spinous membranes orange ter- 

 minally. Caudal body color. 



6216. Mantaquin Bay, Palawan. April 2, 1909. Length 102 mm. 



9223. Opol, Mindanao. August 4, 1909. Length 235 mm. 



5880. PoUoc, ISIindanao. May 22, 1908. Length 400 mm. Bronze olive, paler 

 below, bronze shading into orange, edges of scales lighter and small blue 

 spot near center of each, occasionally 2. Slaty blue lines cross forehead, 

 interorbital and snout, more or less horizontal on side of head, interrupted 

 on opercle. Lips pale. Throat smoky. Fins dusky, tips of soft verticals 

 more or less yellowish. 



