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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, deep blue-green, the head above and shoulders indigo; not 

 much brown shade on scales; upper lip, stripe below eye, and streaks about eye clear blue-green; a red 

 stripe on upper lip; lower with two of reddish brown, two of clear blue; breast and lower parts clear 

 blue; dorsal blue in front and on edge, green at base behind; a median band of deep reddish brown; 

 caudal deeply lunate, blue-green with a band of deep brown on each lobe; anal purplish blue at base, 

 then a clear blue line, then bluish green, blue at tip; ventral purplish blue behind, greenish blue in 

 front; pectoral clear green above, blue below, with a blue-brown dark stripe between; teeth blue. 



A young example from Pago Pago had the iris white; above eye black-green; below eye green- 

 blue; sides green-blue with brown-maroon scale markings; pectoral with longitudinal median blackish 

 blotch and very bright anterior edge; ventral robin's-egg blue on anterior margin, salmon tinge within; 

 anal bright green blue with pink-salmon basal band; dorsal green-blue with pink-salmon median band; 

 caudal green-blue with pink-salmon blotches; green black stripe through eye and snout forming patch 

 on opercle and one behind eye; teeth sky-blue; upper lip green-blue with maroon margin; lower lip 

 with broad salmon-maroon bar behind margin and pinkish irregular blotch farther back. 



Color in spirits pea-green, top of head and shoulders back to sixth dorsal spine and to a line with 

 eye dark bluish green, with shading of purplish; this color separated very distinctly on line with eye 

 from the pea-green of lower half of head; a short pea-green line through upper part of eye; tip of 



Fig. §£>.— Callyodon lazuliniis Jordan & Seale, new species. Type. 



snout and lips pea-green, with an indistinct but slightly darker greenish line around upper lip, and 

 two similar but broad lines on lower lip, the posterior one zigzaging down from eye to anterior margin 

 of isthmus; a bluish spot on isthmus; dorsal greenish with a darker submarginal line, lower part of 

 fin with an indistinct dusky line at base anteriorly and some dusky blotches posteriorly; outer two- 

 thirds of anal yellowish green, the inner third pea-green, this pea-green area margined by narrow line 

 of dusky; pectoral markings conspicuous, the upper four rays being olive-green, the middle portion 

 purplish, the margin gray; ventral uniform greenish; caudal with outer rays bright green, the 

 sublateral rays grayish, the middle of fin bright green; the distal margin is grayish; iris golden; teeth 

 very dark green, almost dusk}'. 



Fifteen specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. The type is no. 51758, U. S. National Museum, from 

 Apia, length 12.90 inches. 



1117. Callyodon cyanognathus (Bleeker). Fate and Shortland I. (Seale); East Indies. 



Scams cyanogiiathus Bleeker, Verli. Bat. Gen., XXII, 62, Java. 

 Pseudoscarus cyanognathus, Giinther, Cat., IV, 234, Java. 



1118. Callyodon mertensii (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Ulea. 

 Scarus mertensii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 281, 1839, Ulea. 



1119. Callyodon spilurus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Scarus spilurus Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., 279, 1839, Caroline Is. 



