FISHES. 85 
Hagénfa  Orymonacanthus longirostris Bleeker. 
A small file-fish; mouth like a turned-up beak; skin blue with orange 
spots. Collected June 14, 1900. 
Halio. Carcharias melanopterus Q. & G. 
A shark with dark-colored fins. 
Hamoktan. Zebrasoma guttatus Forster. 
A spotted lancet-fish. Body elevated, compressed, short; brownish 
speckled with round white dots; 2 bluish-white cross bands on the 
body and | on the shoulders, extending down on opercles; tail armed 
with spines; tail and ventral fins yellow; mouth like the snout of a 
sheep. This species occurs also in Hawaii. 
Haénkut. Hemiramphus limbatus Cuy. & Val, Half-beak. 
Upper jaw short; lower jaw prolonged into a beak. In Samoa 
allied species are called ‘*ise;” in Hawaii ‘* ihe-ihe.” 
Hasule. Anguilla sp. 
An eel living in fresh-water streams. Edible. 
Higum. /lurpe avillaris (Bennett). 
A small-mouthed fish, belonging to the Labridae, the family which 
also includes the tatalun, gadu, and tatanung. The anterior half of 
the body is dark-colored, the posterior half of a livid salmon-color; 
caudal tin yellow; spinous dorsal fin brown; posterior half of soft 
dorsal and anal fins light yellowish; « deep black spot on the first 3 
dorsal spines; a black spot on base and in axil of pectoral fins. 
Hiting. Siganas hevagonata Ginther. 
Like a large sesyan (a little more than a foot long); dark purplish 
with yellowish hexagonal spots. Other species of Siganas are Svga- 
nas marmorata Q. & G., Siganas rostrata Cuy. & Val., which is 
bluish with indistinct markings of yellow spots and lines, and the 
‘‘mafithag,” a fish which appears at intervals in great numbers and is 
preserved by the natives by drying. This name is probably applied 
to the young of the hiting or the sesyan, or perhaps of both. 
Hiyug or Hidyug. = Teuthis lineatus Bloch. 
A beautiful surgeon-fish; body elevated, compressed; movable white 
spine on caudal peduncle; longitudinal stripes of yellow-black-blue- 
black-yellow extendin,y back to root of caudal fin; blue line down 
middle of forehead, dividing and forming ring about mouth; other 
blue lines on each side of this. In Samoa this species is called 
‘alongo.” 
Hugtpau. Monoceros gurretti Seale. 
A black surgeon-tish, with two bony plates or keels on caudal 
peduncle, having a yellow base; caudal fin black with subterminal 
band of yellow and a marginal band of white; dorsal fin black with a 
submarginal line of white, which begins very narrow and widens 
