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East Indies, Melanesia, Queensland. I have seen this species pre- 

 viously only once, and that in the Bishop Museum where there is 

 an example 350 mm. long from Shortland Island. The coloration 

 of the species is very diagnostic, especially the gray or buff lines on 

 the snout and the gray ring at the upper hind edge of the eye. 

 Young examples do not have caudal filaments. Most all show a dark 

 diffuse shade on the flanks above the median or axial line as in 

 Scolopsis hhnaculatus, though the dark brown transverse bar or 

 narrow wedge across the pectoral base is ever present. 



5232. Canmahala Bay, Luzon. March 11, 1909. Length 234 mm. 



5500, 7588. Catbalogan, Samar. April 14, 1908. Length 205 to 250 mm. Pale 

 green above, grading to silvery below, scales with narrow olive border ; 

 about 4 narrow stripes above lateral line of yellowish brown ; 2 or 3 sup- 

 plementary ones on nape; short bronze stripe slightly less than eye in width 

 under lateral line, continued forward to under eye as an irregular brownish 

 line disappearing on caudal peduncle ; short oblique lines of pale yellow 

 below pointing forward and downward, horizontal on lower peduncle ; blue 

 spot behind eye and near angle of opercle ; another blotch below brown line 

 on cheek and opercle; interspaces between oblique yellow lines bluish above; 

 orange brown crescent in front of interorbital, rest of scaleless portion of 

 top of head smoky purple ; preorbitals pearly, inside of mouth pinkish ; 

 toothed margin of preopercle orange ; lower head more or less dusky. Dorsal 

 hyaline purple, tips of membranes of hinder portion and base yellow ; blotches 

 of yellow on body of fin posteriorly. Caudal orange, tipped with smoky 

 blue in fork, edge of lower lobe same. Anal hyaline whitish washed with 

 straw through center. Ventral hyaline, with dash of orange on first mem- 

 brane. Pectoral pale straw, dusky above, with blackish basal bar. Iris 

 bright orange and dusky. 



€719. Catbalogan. April 16, 1908. Length 210 mm. 



6192. Mansalay, Mindoro. June 4, 1908. Length 320 mm. 



6244. Varadero Bay, Luzon. July 23, 1908. Length 200 mm. 



6792. Danawan Island and Si Amil Island, Borneo. September 26, 1909. 

 Length 208 mm. 



A947. Dodepo and Pasejogo Islands, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes, Dutch East 

 Indies. November 16, 1909. Length 275 mm. 



A891. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length 437 mm. Olive gray, 

 silvery white belovp, ochery interocular bar about % diameter of pupil, similar 

 bar bending forward about half way to snout, blue below equal to the ochery ; 

 narrow blue line diagonally across preorbital ; blotches of blue above and 

 behind eye; stripe across upper opercle and cheek and dashes in front and 

 behind hinder limb of preopercle, naked part of which yellowish ; obscure 

 bronzy stripe behind lower patt of eye passing downward into middle of side, 

 scales of middle of side under lateral line with bluish round spot near 

 centers ; dorsal hyaline purplish, clouded with olive yellow across spine, 

 margin the same, bases of soft membranes bluish ; upper half of caudal 

 yellowish. 



A1219. Gomomo Island, Pitt Passage. December 3, 1909. Length 247 mm. 



A1356. Great Tobea Island. December 15, 1909. Length 310 nrm. 



A1572. Soo Wan, East Formosa. January 29, 1910. Length 293 mm. 



