86 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
posteriorly to half the width of the fin. It has a narrow margin of 
black above this, but it has no colored line at base of dorsal as in 
M. lituratus. The name ‘*hugtipau” is applied also to JL U/tiraéus 
(Forst.), with the yellow coloring of the bases of the caudal plates 
intermingling, and with a colored line along the base of the dorsal fin. 
Another allied species, JZ. marginatus Cuv. & Val., is called *‘ titaga.” 
Kakaka. = Lwitianus fulvus (Bloch). 
A snapper; pinkish and yellowish, with dark tail and yellow pecto- 
rals and ventrals; dark spot at base of pectorals; upper part of dorsal 
black with narrow white margin, and narrow white margin on tail. 
In Samoa allied species called ‘‘mu-mea” and “ tavai-uliuli” are 
sometimes poisonous. 
Laiguan. Mugil waigiensis Q. & G. 
Mullet; called **lisa” by the Spanish. Head flat; scales large; body 
silvery with slight wash of vellow; darker above; pectorals dusky 
with lower margins yellowish. A favorite food fish. 
Lansi. <Apogon fasciatus Q. & G, 
Small; livid flesh-color, striped longitudinally with black from head 
to tail, Abundant on reefs, associated with chetodons and other 
coral fishes. 
Loro. 
A name applied in Guam to species of Scarus, or parrot-fishes, and 
to the genus Gomphosus.  Scarus celebricus Bloch is a beautiful species 
of a deep cobalt blue and pink color; scales large. Gomphosus tri- 
color Q. & G.: intense dark green and dark blue; snout elongated; 
a yellow marking as wide as orbit from lower part of pectoral axis to 
a little above a lateral line on shoulders; pectorals dusky with a deep 
blue band across posterior third; tail yellow, outer margin blue-green. 
Allied species (*panuhunuhu”) are sometimes eaten raw by the 
Hawaiians. 
Maching. § Periophthalmus koelreuteri (Pallas). 
Mangrove-hopper. A small, brown, flabby fish with livid flesh-color 
markings, its air bladder modified into a breathing organ. It leaves 
the water and hops about stones and on the mangrove roots and muddy 
bottom of salt-water mud flats. 
Mafuti. Lutianius bonhamensis Giinther. 
Pale greenish snapper with pinkish fins and tail, sometimes a black 
spot on sides; a favorite food fish; can be caught witha hook. Among 
other species of Lutianus, are the kikaka (1. fu/vus), the buha 
(L. monostigma), L. bengalensis (with + blue-brown edged stripes 
along the side of the yellowish body); and Z. erythropterus (yellowish 
white with wash of reddish brown; dorsal tin with a fine black margin), 
