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head behind intex'orbitals and back blue, becoming purplish some time after 

 death ; scales with darker margins, short stripe through their centers 

 of brighter blue or green ; extreme tip of lower jaw and snout dusky ; a dash 

 of yellow in front of each anterior nostril ; narrow yellow stripe, beginning 

 on nuchal region, passes backward about two or three scale rows below 

 dorsal, joins fellow at dorsal axil, continues as single stripe about half 

 length of top of peduncle; second yellow stripe begins over eye, passes 

 through upper angle of gill opening under lateral line to about posterior fifth 

 of soft dorsal, where crosses lateral line and ends above it at base of caudal 

 fin; both yellow stripes with darker brownish borders, more pronounced on 

 upper ; lower portions of body white, washed red ; dorsal fin red, membranes 

 translucent; tip of soft portion'slaty bluish. Caudal and anal pink, caudal 

 with a blackish or red brown spot at tip of each lobe ; anal with more pro- 

 nounced red bar at base, tip becoming white ; ventral pale, tips of rays red ; 

 pectoral very pale hyaline pink, black in axil externally, but no black show- 

 ing on external base. 



8670. Tara Island. December 15, 1908. Length 178 mm. 



5033 [264]. Tataan Island, Tawi Tawi Group. February 21, 1908. Length 218 

 mm. Upper parts blue, with indigo shades ; two longitudinal stripes. Dorsal 

 pale scarlet terminally ; caudal dull reddish, tips of lobes reddish brown. Anal, 

 ventral and pectoral pink. Iris red and silvery. All of lower parts flushed 

 with red. Specimen not in good condition for colors. 



Subgenus Odontonectes Giinther 



Differs from preceding subgenera in presence of external row of 

 denticles on jaws. Body uniform. 



CAESIO CUNING (Bloch) 



Sparus cuning Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, vol. 5, 1791, p. 31, pi. 263, 

 fig. 1. East Indies. — Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 295 (on Bloch) . — 

 FoKSTER, Fauna Indica, 1795, p. 15. — Lac^p^db, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, 

 pp. 36, 113 (East Indies). 



Cichla cuning Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch. 1801, p. 336 (East Indies). 



Caesio cuning Cuvieis, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1831, p. 444 (on Bloch). — Day, 

 Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 95; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, 

 1889, p. 532.— EvEKMANN and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), 

 p. 83 (Bacon). — Zugmayer, Abhandl. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-physik, 

 Klasse, vol. 26, 1913, p. 11 (Oman). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 

 10, 1928, p. 203 (New Guinea) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929. 

 p. 638 (Padang; types of Caesio erythrochilurus ; Bacon). 



Caesio erythrogaster (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Cuvieb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vol. 6, 1830, p. 442, pi. 166. Java.— Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 

 1, 1864, p. 8 (East Indies). — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 64 (Java; 

 Singapore). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, pi. 

 (34)312, fig. 3; vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 36 (Sumatra, Nias, Batu, Singapore, 

 Bintang, Banka, Duizend Islands, Java, Bawean, Celebes, Halmahera, Am- 

 boina, Coram). — Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 387 (Singa- 

 pore). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, 1882, p. 240 

 (New Guinea). — Seale and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 1907, p. 

 243 (Zamboanga).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 286 

 (Saleyer). 



Caesio erythropterus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 18, 1859, p. 

 365 (Banka) (error). 



