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more clear gradually posteriorly; when reaching peduncular region blue 

 lost. Lower portions of body white, washed with red; tip of lower jaw 

 dusky ; colors of head and body purplish with exception of some blue stripes 

 on side of head ; base of dorsal yellowish, scales showing with bluish edges, 

 tip of fin where unsealed olive yellow, extreme margin dusky; tips of front 

 spines pink; middle edge of caudal lobes and tips of rays within fork ver- 

 milion; anal very pale vermilion, yellowish through center, but not exactly 

 as bar, tips of soft portions bluish white; ventral rays pink, most distinct 

 internally; pectorals very pale hyaline pink, axil entirely black and black 

 showing as blotch on upper half of outer side of base. 



13354, 13355. Sablayau, Mindoro. December 12, 1908. Length 129 to 140 mm. 



14090. Sabtan Island. November 8, 1908. Length 180 mm. 



21877. Singaan, Tawi Tawi Group. September 21, 1909. Length 125 mm. 



5032, 5034 to 5036. Tataan, Tawi Tawi. February 21, 1908. Length 187 to 

 197 mm. [263.] Pui-plish indigo on top of head and toward middle of body ; 

 back from nuchal region washed with lemon yellow, becoming nearly 

 cadmium on peduncle and caudal; on middle of sides scales with tips of 

 pink and bases of blue, belly becoming nearly white, flushed with red on 

 breast and lower head. Dorsal lemon yellow, tipped with black. Caudal 

 tipped with vermilion in fork. Anal orange, tipped with white. Ventral 

 pink, rays white. Pectoral pale hyaline pink, base white, axil with black 

 blotch the same as upper half of base. 



A1286, 13531. Uki, Bouro Island, Dutch East Indies. December 9, 1909. 

 Length 90 to 290 mm. 3 examples. 



13233. Doworra Island. December 2, 1909. Length 177 mm. 



CAESIO PISANG Bleeker 



Caesio pisang Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 4, 1853, p. 113. Am- 

 boina; Batavia.— GiJNTHEK, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 391 

 (Amboina).— Bleekek, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 38, 

 pi. (56)334, fig. 2 (Java, Celebes, Ternate, Amboina ) .—Mabtens, Preuss. 

 Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 387 (" Yokohama ").—Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godef- 

 froy. No. 9, 1884, p. 29 (Mortlock). — Meyer, Anal. Soc, Espaii. Hist. Nat., 

 Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 20 (North Celebes).— Steindachner, Abh. Sencken- 

 berg. Naturf. Ges., vol. 25, 1900, p. 418 (Ternate).— Weber, Siboga Exp., 

 vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 285 (Saleyer).— Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 62, 1922, p. 38 (Cebu).— Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, 

 p. 204 (compiled). 



Depth ^% to 4; head 314 to 31/2, width 1% to 2. Snout 3% to 

 4 in head from snout tip ; eye 3i/4 to 4, greater than snout in young 

 to subequal with age, greater than interorbital in young to I14 in 

 interorbital with age; maxillary reaches i^ in eye, length 3 to 31/3 

 in head from snout tip ; teeth minute, weak ; interorbital 3% to 31/2, 

 slightly convex. Gill rakers 10 + 24, lanceolate, slender, 11/5 in gill 

 filaments or i/^ of eye. 



Scales 61 to 63 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter; 7 scales above lateral line, 12 below, 26 to 28 predorsal for- 

 ward opposite eye center, 4 or 5 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. 

 Scales with 10 or 11 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 55 to 70, 



