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Back brown, variably dark according to preservation. Below 

 whitish. Iris slaty. Dorsals grayish, little darker terminally. 

 Caudal light brown, each lobe with median broad dusky band longi- 

 tudinally, contrasted at all ages. Other fins all pale, upper base 

 of pectoral with neutral dusky triangular blotch, less than pupil in 

 size. 



Ked Sea, Zanzibar, Natal, Mauritius, Bourbon, Keunion, India, 

 Ceylon, Pinang, East Indies, Philippines, China, Queensland, Micro- 

 nesia, Melanesia, Polynesia. 



I follow Klunzinger in placing Caesio striotus Riippell as a syn- 

 onym of this species, differing only in the presence of 4 or 5 blackish 

 longitudinal bands on the back. 



Caesio tnaculatus Cuvier is described as metallic green with a 

 mixture of yellow tints and scattered sky blue spots, a few turning 

 to greenish. Although Giinther admits the species, as it is with- 

 out the yellow lateral band along the lateral line, this usually fades 

 in most alcoholic specimens. I have examples exactly as Cuvier 

 describes which are evidently Caesio ca£rulaureus. 



11291, 11292, 14885, 18270, 18654, 18655. Alimango Bay. Burias Island. March 

 5, 1909. Length 151 to 201 mm. 



Four examples. Balikias Bay, Lubang. July 14, 1909. Length 80 to 105 mm. 



7957. Balukbaluk Island, south of Zamboanga. September 12, 1909. Length 

 158 mm. 



14876, 14877. Bolalo Bay, Palawan. December 2, 1908. Length 163 to 201 mm. 



9029. Bongao anchorage, Tawi Tawi Group. February 24, 1908. Length 161 

 mm. 



1245^, 12456, 15576, 15578. Bugsuk Island, Balabac. January 5, 1909. Length 

 99 to 189 mm. 



7097. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. March 8, 1909. Length 187 mm. 



15176. Busin Harbor. March 7, 1909. Length 178 mm. 



21268. Busin Harbor. April 22, 1909. Length 132 mm. 



15820, 22276, 22277. Butauanan Island. June 13, 1909. Length 70 to 90 mm. 

 10 examples. 



15057, 15058. Canmahala Bay, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 11, 1909. Length 

 124 to 207 mm. 



12734. Capulaan Bay, Pagbilao Island. February 24, 1909. Length 130 mm. 



7624, 13018. Cataingan Bay, near ship anchorage, Masbate. April 17, 1908. 

 Length 160 to 164 mm. Larger specimen with about 3 sepia stripes, first 

 below base of dorsal, second behind eye to top of peduncle, third behind 

 lower eye to lower base of caudal ; these fading to greenish and bronzy ; 

 middle area between second and third stripes bright yellow, paler at either 

 end ; interspaces above bluish ; snout above olive ; V of bluish green be- 

 tween eyes, point nearly to tip of preorbitals ; lower parts white ; dorsal 

 hyaline olive, with a bluish stripe beneath margin ; caudal pale dusky 

 olive, with narrow bluish margin within fork ; lower fins pinkish ; pectoral 

 dusky ; all membranes hyaline. Smaller specimen more yellowish ; narrow 

 median line from front of dorsal to interorbital region, another lying 

 under base of anterior half of dorsal, running forward to eye; another 

 from upper hind part of eye to top of peduncle ; all pale yellow ; paler 



