FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 295 



15920. Pangasinan Island, Jolo. February 13, 1908. Length 121 mm. 



11126. Pasacao, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 9, 1909. Length 155 mm. 



12518. Polloc, Mindanao. May 22, 1908. Length 164 mm. 



12050, 12051. Port Banalacan. February 23, 1909. Length 148 to 154 mm. 



10484, 10724. Port Miiricaban. July 21, 1908. Length 154 to 168 mm. 



14764. Romblou. March 26, 1908. Length 119 mm. 



16882. Sablayan, Mindoro. December 12, 1908. Length 167 mm. 



15706 [289]. Sanguisiapo Island, Sulu. February 24, 1908. Length 156 mm. 

 Upper surface lavender to olive, anteriorly washed with yellow ; top of 

 peduncle nearly orange ; broad white stripe broadest at head where about 

 width of pupil, rimning from corner of mouth to second dorsal ray, bordered 

 by narrow stripes of light umber ; from front of eyes narrow medial dorsal 

 stripe running on either edge of dorsal sheath ; below on top of head and 

 shoulder short bright yellow line ; line througli top of eye not quite meeting 

 its fellow on post-nasal region, passing bacliward to below middle of spinous 

 dorsal ; snout under line golden brown ; white blotch under posterior part of 

 dorsal reaching to lateral line ; lower side and under surface white. Spinous 

 dorsal cadmium, soft fin with reddish brown blotch covering anterior half; 

 submarginal cloud of brownish red on posterior part, fin hyaline whitish 

 near blotch. Caudal pale whitish hyaline, its edges vermilion ; center of 

 fin flushed with red. Anterior two-thirds of anal black, posterior rays 

 hyaline, with whitish between. Ventral hyaline white, edged pinljish. Pec- 

 toral hyaline, edged with yellow ; yellowish in axil, dark or brown stripe 

 blotching upper edge of base. Iris dusky and yellow. 



20022. Surigao Island. May 8, 1908. Length 111 mm. 



9376. Taganak Island. January 7, 1909. Length 132 mm. 



4899. Talajit Island, Buang Bay. March 15, 1909. Length 168 mm. 



6510. Tara Island. December 14, 1908. Length 140 mm. 



13461. Limbe Strait, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. November 9, 1909. Length 

 177 mm. 



22197, 22198. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length 110 to 115 mm. 



14738. Kayoa Island. November 29, 1908. Length 118 mm. 



80605 U.S.N.M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length 168 to 170 mm. 

 2 examples. 



56135 U.S.N.M. Bulan. Bureau of Fisheries (3875). Length 143 mm. 



72010 U.S.N.M. Nafa, Okinawa, Riu Kiu. Albatross Collection 1906. Length 

 168 mm. 



The following are all like Bleeker's figure of the young: 



17635 [1196]. Mompog Island. March 3, 1909. Length 72 mm. 



15949, 22199. Pangasinan Island, Jolo. February 13, 1908. Length 55 to 86 mm. 



15732. Sanguisiapo Island. February 24, 1908. Length 70 mm. 



18784. Tictauan Island, east of Zamboanga. September 8, 1909. Length 86 mm. 



6170. Tonquil Island. September 14, 1909. Length 104 mm. 



20872. Usada Island, Jolo. March 3, 1908. Length 93 mm. 



48638 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum Philadelphia. Length 80 mm. 



27616 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. Length 

 158 mm. When fresh in arrack dark olive above, side lighter and below 

 still paler. Broad white band with narrow black edges extends from maxil- 

 lary and below eye backward and upward till opposite soft dorsal origin. 

 On back below soft dorsal, from fourth ray, oblique whitish blotch. From 

 upper eye edge along fore part of back 3 pale or narrow whitish streaks. 

 Iris golden. Dorsal mostly white basally, spinous part grayish above and region 



