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Another specimen, from Apia, was clear bluish green, of tlie same nhaile everywhere above the 

 |iectoral; each scale with a Ijrown base and edge; lower parts of a clear crockery blue, less shaded 

 with brown; head olive-green above, clear bright brown on the sides, golden olive on throat; lower 

 lip orange, then a broad blue stripe, a narrow orange and a narrower blue one separating from the 

 olive of throat; breast and median line of throat blue; upper lip blue wiih a iiarrow orange edge; 

 dorsal dull orange, it* margin bright blue; a series of large green spots mesially; caudal bright blue, 

 an orange-brown streak in each lobe, brown shades at base; anal dull dark orange, its edge Ijright blue 

 with a broad greenish blue median stripe; pectoral blue, with a longitudinal stripe of brown; ventral 

 pale blue, with a bright blue edge; iris blue with a golden ring within. 



A specimen from Pago Pago was brassy green, livid bluish below and more bluish on caudal 

 peduncle, head more smoky; each body scale with reddish brown edge; dark green streaks radiating 

 from eye; upper lip deep blue, margined with reddish; lower lip blue, with reddish edge and a yellow 

 cross-band from angle of mouth; an angular blue green band from angle of mouth to gill opening far 

 below eye; axil dusky; dorsal smoky orange, edged with blue, a median blackish stripe posteriorly; 

 caudal bright blue, darker on margin and edge; anal blue washed with orange, with blue margin and 

 a median stripe; pectoral blue, with blackish submarginal band; ventral robin's-egg blue, with bluer 

 margin. 



Another specimen from Pago Pago was very rich dark Nile green, with dark purplish brown 

 scale-edgings, behind eye dark green linear blotches, and farther back a single light gold-green oblong 

 lilotch, edged with blackish; teeth blue; upper lip broadly scarlet, then green, then narrowly scarlet, 

 then merging into fuliginous; lower lip narrowly margined with scarlet, then bluish green, then smoky 

 lilac, then bluish green, then smoky lilac; ventrals lilac, with navy-blue anterior margin and sky-blue 

 posterior margins; pectoral dark lilac-purplish, with bluer margins; anal with bright sky-blue margin 

 and pinkish submarginal line merging into greenish; dorsal like anal; caudal with very light blue 

 margin and mixed greenish bluish and thin yellowish green in middle; dorsal and ventral margins 

 sky-blue, with pinkish salmon inside. 



Color in spirits dull green with a wash of bluish, darker above, somewhat purplish on top of hea<l, 

 lighter below, shading into a pale green on under part of head, thorax, and belly; the very narrow 

 margin of lips yellowish, the upper lip with a single dark bluish green band above the yellow margin, 

 and with a narrow yellowish area above the blue line; a rather wide and very distinct bluish green 

 line extends around under the jaw from which two other lines also extend around under the jaw, all the 

 bands uniting near angle of moutlfand extending back across the cheeks to posterior margin of oper- 

 cles, on a line with upper base of pectorals; about 5 very short purplish lines radiate from eye; a 

 lighter blotch at base of caudal; dorsal fin margined with deep blue, the spinous portion of fin pale 

 gl'een, the soft portion more or less blotched with purplish, the color assuming a rather wide band-like 

 form in middle of fin; anterior, posterior, and outer margins of anal fin deep blue, an incomplete blue 

 line at base, body of tin dull grayish, with wide blue band through center; pectorals greenish, the 

 upper margin deep blue, the posterior margin gray with intramarginal dusky area; ventral pale green 

 with first and second rays blue; caudal with upper and lower margins blue; the distal end of tin 

 broadly margined with purplish about two irregular purplish bands near base; iris golden; teeth green. 



Of this fish we have 7 specimens, all large, from Apia and Pago Pago. One from Apia, a very 

 large example 2i feet long, has the fleshy pad on the forehead highly developed. A specimen similar 

 to this was taken by Mr. Scale at ^Mangareva. The type is no. 517.57, U. S. National Museum, 13 inches 

 IdUi;, from Pago Pago. 



1116. Callyodon lazulinus .Jordan A Scale, new species. Fii<i<inxi. Samoa. 



Head 2.85 in leuirtli; .l.i.ili L'.s5; eye 7.50 in head; dorsal ix, 10; anal in, 9; scales 2-24-6; three 

 rows of scales on clicrk-, the lower row of four scales covering lower limb of preopercle. 



Body oblong, ccmipn -s-id; anterior of head bluntly rounded; the snout slightly gibbous; depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2.20 in head; no posterior canines; lips rather wide, covering slightly more than 

 one-half of teeth; five scales in front of dorsal; base of dorsal 1.90 in length without caudal, its loiii;fst 

 ray 3 in head; base of anal 1.50 in head, 2.10 in base of dorsal; pectoral 1.20 in head; ventral 2 in 

 head; caudal deeply lunate, the upper and lower rays much prolonged, the upper slightly the longest, 



