266 EXPEDITION OF THE "ALHATllOSS," 1899-1900. 



Three specimens, Nos. 08869, 08870, 08871, 31, 5? and 5| inches lung from 

 Suva, Fiji Islands. 



The two specimens from Makemo seem to be typically colored, except the 

 dorsal which lacks the black spot on the front of spinous portion, but there is a 

 faint suggestion of a dusky band below the upper margin of the membrane; 

 and there are milky white blotches at the upper margin of the membrane im- 

 mediately behind each spine. In this respect they agree with Bleeker's figure 

 of this species in Atlas Ichth., 9, pi. 360, fig. 5. 



The one from Taritari is nuich paler in color, the longitudinal bands hardly 

 indicated, and those only on the back above the lateral line; faint spots on cheek 

 and spinous dorsal similar to those above. 



In reserve series of Bureau of Fisheries the specimens marked H. laevis fi-om 

 Dr. Jordan's Samoan collections, and regarding which he says thei-e is never 

 any black on spinous dorsal, two are similai' in coloration to our pale examples 

 of H. suinmura from Makemo; one has a black blotch on the front of spinous 

 dorsal, but is otherwise incUstinguishable from the other specimens, except that 

 the bands along the sides are a little more distinct than in the other two: we 

 cannot separate them from H. samrnant. In Fishes of tSamoa, H. thornlonensis 

 Fowler is included in synonymy of H. mrnmara, which cannot be correct if 

 Fowler's figure can be relied upon, as it has with lower jaw included a very 

 different head. 



CARANGIDAE. 



Scomberoides sanctipetri (Civikk & \'alenciennes). 



.JijKiJAN & KvERMANN, Bull. U. ,S. Fisli. C'oinin., 190.5, 23, i)t. 1, p. 181. 

 Choniiciiiiis sancli iiiiri Crv. & \ \h.. Hist. Xat. Poiss., 1831, 8, p. 279 (379), pi. 236. 



No. A 10, a specimen 10 inches long from Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands. 

 Depth 4 in length to end of scales; head 5; eye (not orbit) 5 in head, about 1.5 in 

 snout; maxillary reaches to posterior margin of eye; dorsal spines do not 

 overlap, not reaching each other; dorsal \TI, I, 20; anal II, I, IS; teeth in 

 several series in up]ier jaw anteriorly, becoming two series posterioily, the 

 other series are the largest anteriorly, the inner is the larger of the two poste- 

 rior series; in lower jaw the teeth are similar td those of upper jaw, but the 



