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brown streaks on sides; lower posterior side of head with numerous 

 pale spots (green when alive); upper lip broadly pale at edge; lower 

 lip narrowly pale at edge, followed posteriorly by green bars; second 

 green bar on chin extends to corner of mouth thence to lower edge of 

 eye. Its color pattern is similar to that of Scar ops rubroviolaceous. 



I have seen only two specimens of this species, but Smith (loc. cit.) 

 reports it to be abundant in the Western Indian Ocean. 



Scarus blochi Cuvier and Valencieiuies 



Plate 19, a 



Scarus blochi Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 14, 



p. 219, 1839 (type locality: Java). 

 Scarus quoyi (in part) Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, 



vol. 14, p. 273, 1839 (type locality: New Ireland; type examined in Mus, Nat. 



Hist. Nat. Paris, Cat. No. 579). 

 Pseudoscarus viridis (not of Bonnaterre) Bleeker, Atlas ichthyologique . . . i 



vol. 1, p. 45, pi. 17, fig. 3, 1862. 

 Scarus chrysopomus Bleeker, Natuur- en Geneesk. Arch. Nedrl.-Indie, vol 4, 



pt. 2, p. 163, 1847 (type locality: Batavia; 2 cotypes examined in Mus. Nat. 



Hist. Nat. Paris, Cat. Nos. 1739 and 1760: 2 cotypes examined in British 



Museum, Cat. Nos. 1861.2.28.38, standard length 190 mm., and 1862.2.28.5, 



standard length 152 mm.). 

 Psuedoscarus chrysopoma, Day, Fishes of India, vol. 2, p. 412, pi. 89, fig. 2, 1878 



(India: specimens from Andamans examined, (drawn) in Indian Musuem, 



Cat. Nos. 1666 and 1667). 

 Pseudoscarus rivulatus, Day, Fishes of India, vol. 2, 413 (not pi. 87 fig. 6), 1878 



(Batavia, Java; specimen examined in Indian Museum, Cat. No. 1668). 

 Callyodon philippinus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 70, p. 66, 



fig. 26, 1918 (type locality: Philippines). 

 Callyodon hadji Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4, No. 6, p. 525, 1909 (type 



locality: Palawan). 



This species is characterized by having 6 median predorsal scales, 

 3 rows of scales on the cheek; white or yellowish teeth; the edges of 

 dorsal and anal fins blue with basal % of anal reddish brown, basal 

 % of dorsal orange; anterior edges of paired fins blue, with a red stripe 

 below upper blue edge of pectoral fin and remainder of fin blue; 

 posterodrosal part of head reddish brown; green or blue upper lip, 

 this green continuing behind mouth to below eye; 2 or 3 short blue 

 streaks behind eye, and one forward from middle front of eye; lower 

 lip blue; under side of head orange, with narrow, somewhat reticu- 

 lated blue streaks; background color of body greenish red dorsally, 

 brownish red ventrally; peduncular area greenish; caudal fin edged 

 with blue dorsally and ventrally, yellowish green posteriorly, basally 

 bluish. 



I have studied very many specimens in lots from the following 

 localities: Philippine Islands, 47 lots, Java, 3; and New Guinea, 1. 



