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the green, so that the last rays are green at base and blue at margin; caudal purplish brown toward the 

 bluish base, then green, blue, and finally light orange on the edge; the lobes and upper and lowei 

 margins deep blue; anal dull orange, blue-shaded at base, the distal half bright blue; ventral greenish 

 blue, the membranes mostly orange; pectoral greenish blue, the edge faintly orange. 



Color in spirits, dull yellowish, shading into green anteriorly; a slight wash of purplish on lieail 

 and nuchal region; two green bands around lower lip, the anterior one forming the margin, the poste- 

 rior one uniting more or less with green coloring on isthmus; margin of upper lip yellow; an irregular 

 green line from orbit to angle of jaws, and two or three indistinct green lines on cheek; a dark blotch 

 back of eye, arid on posterior lobe of opercle; posteriorly the scales of body have a slight wash of 

 greenish on margin; spinous dorsal greenish, with darker margin; soft dorsal yellow, except its lower 

 anterior third which is greenish; anal broadly margined with green, inner part of fin grayish, with 

 some greenish blotches; pectoral green, with yellowish jiosterior margin; ventral green, their mid- 

 portion yellowish; caudal green with some (iarl<er blotches, tlie margin yellowish; iris golden; teeth 

 green. 



1113. Callyodon strongylocephalus (Bleeker). Tahiti (.Seale); Java. 

 Srarus sImngi/tiiniiliuUis Bleekur, Java, II, -139, Java, 



1114. Callyodon microrhinos (Bleeker). Fiji (Giinther); New Guinea (Macleay). 



1115. Callyodon ultramarinus Jordan & Seale, new species. Fuga gnlu-moanii. Samoa. 



Head 2.80 in length; depth 2.75; eye 8 in head; snout 2.20; interorbital 3; dorsal i.x, 10; anal iii, 

 9; scales 2-24-6, three rows on cheek, the lower row of 7 unjoined scales on lower limb of preopercle. 



Body oblong, compressed, anterior of head not evenly rounded because of the stronglj- gibbous 

 forehead; depth of caudal peduncle 2.25 in head; three rows of scales in front of dorsal; two small 

 blunt posterior canines in upper jaw, none in lower; lips narrow, not covering one-half of teeth in either 

 jaw; base of dorsal fin 1.75 in length without caudal, its longest ray 2.40 in head; base of anal 1.50, 

 2.35 in base of dorsal, its rays longer than rays of dorsal, the longest ray 2.75 in head; pectoral 1.25; 

 ventral 1.90; caudal lunate, e.\-posed outer ray 1.75, exposed inner ray, 2.95. 



Life colors of one specimen were dark greenish blue, rather abruptly slaty blue lielow, the two 

 colors separated by a broad irregular blackish area which passes below the eye and around the snout; 

 head-pad violet-blue; lips and throat brilliant blue green; a stripe of same back to base of pectoral, 

 then upward along opercular edge; caudal peduncle clear blue green; dorsal dull ohve, with a bright 

 blue margin; caudal violet with blue spots on margin and posterior edge; anal light blue violaceous, 

 edged with deep blue; ventral bluish, edged w ith bright blue; breast light blue; pectoral light blue 

 with a median violet band, ins orange; no red or orange or yellow. 



