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and broader stripe through lower eye to base of caudal, across snout and 

 preorbital grayish with blue and green, remainder very pale yellow; bronzy 

 umber border on either side equal to stripe in width below, narrower above ; 

 breast and belly white, slightly washed with pink ; dusliy stripe from below 

 pectoral base to axil of anal ; bluish V before eye obscure ; slate blue blotch 

 vertically on shoulder. 



13016, 16566 [532]. Catbalogan, Samar. April 15, 1908. Length 143 to 154 

 mm. Back dark hooker green ; greenish orange stripe from above eye to 

 caudal above lateral line ; bright blue border one-half its width on either side ; 

 lower parts silvery, washed with pink ; middle of side with brassy ; tip of 

 nose and lower jaw bright blue; dorsal color of adjacent body on its front 

 margin on membranes and spines ; caudal lobes olivaceous through middle, 

 dashes of green at base, becoming blackish toward tips; edges of lobes 

 pink; within fork same but paler; anal pink, silvery at base; paired fins 

 pink ; pectoral with a black blotch ; iris silvery. 



14456, 14457, Cuyo Island, Cuyo. April 9, 1909. Length 88 to 89 mm. 



16326. Endeavor Strait, west coast of Palawan. December 23, 1908. Length 

 110 mm. 



16655, 22332. Galera Bay, Mindoro. June 19, 1908. Length 68 to 73 mm. 



18985. Gubat Bay, Luzon, June 23, 1909, Length 214 mm. 



7442, 9484, 9486. Guutao Island, Palawan Passage. December 20, 1908. Length 

 226 to 240? mm. 



6351, 7135. Inamucan Bay, Mindanao. August 8, 1909. Length 118 to 198 mm. 



4720, 4721. Ligpo Point, Balayau Bay. January 18, 1908. Length 200 to 

 213 mm, 



4669, 4670, Limbones Cove, Luzon, January 14, 1908, Length 202 to 220 mm, 



16964, Lode Bay, Destacado Island, March 13, 1909, Length 243 mm, 



14989, 15019, Makesi Island, Palawan. April 5, 1909, Length 124 to 143 mm. 



5227, 5228, Malabon market, August 8, 1908. Length 177 to 212 mm. 



14240. Mariveles wharf, Luzon. January 30, 1909, Length 107 mm, 



16502 to 16504, Masamat Bay, Quinalasag Island, June 12, 1909, Length 69 

 to 78 mm, 



17318, 17319, Near Palag Bay, Luzon, June 16, 1909, Length 180 to 189 mm. 



13433, Opol, Mindanao, August 4, 1909, Length 178 mm. 



One example. Pagapas Bay, Luzon. February 20, 1909. Length 152 mm. 



One example. Pandanon Island. March 23, 1909, Length? 



11746, 12053, 13855. Port Banalacan, Marinduque. February 23, 1909. Length 

 195 to 207 mm. 



30497, 10725, 11017. Port Maricaban. July 21, 1908. Length 163 to 216 mm, 



16531. Port Matalvi, Luzon. November 22, 1908. Length 157 mm, 



13371, 17161, Port Matalvi, November 23, 1908. Length 151 to 156 mm. 



One example. Port Palapag, June 2, 1909, Length 41 mm. 



12711. Reef south lagoon, Tumindao Island. February 26, 1908. Length 157 

 mm. 



10794, 10796, 14694. Refugio Island, Pasacao, Luzon. March 9, 1909, Length 

 108 to 213 mm. Bright cerulean blue above; tip of lower jaw and snout 

 blackish; from midline of side downward color rapidly fades to silvery; 

 blue extinct below level of upper base of pectoral ; yellow stripe from above 

 eye across posterior half of temporal band of scales, following above lateral 

 line, ending at upper base of caudal fin; lateral line black, forming dusky 

 diffused blotch at beginning above gill opening ; dorsal pale gray, tip blackish, 

 front ray dusky; second to about fifth or sixth spinous membrane tips 



