134 THE SHORE FISHES. 



Twenty-one specimens I fo Ih inches long from Manga Reva. 



In these specimens the 2nd and 3rd body bands fuse on the spinous dorsal, 

 in a distinct black area or blotch. 



The following color note was found with these specimens: — "Broad bars, 

 light slate gray, light silver; dorsal and peduncle spots black; spinous dorsal 

 canary behind spot." 



Six specimens Si to 7n inches long, No. 3282-85, No. 3285, M. C. Z. 29694- 

 95 (two damaged and not tagged), from Rikitea, Manga Reva. 



Abudefduf semptemfasciatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1908, 25, p. 285. 



Glyphisodon seplemfasciatus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. 1830, 5, p. 346 (463). 



Two specimens 51 and 7 inches long, 3286-7, M. C. Z. 29645, 29634 from 

 Rikitea, Manga Reva. 



These specimens, which we provisionally identify as above, closely resemble 

 our specimens of A. declivifrons, but have a somewhat narrower preorbital, a 

 wider interorbital, and more dorsal and anal rays. They differ also in having 

 paler fins; in A. declivifrons the soft dorsal, anal, and caudal are almost black 

 while in A. septemfasciatus these fins are much paler with the tips of the dorsal 

 lobes dusky and a broad sharply defined caudal terminal margin, widest at the 

 end of the lobes. They do not agree in form with Bleeker's figure (Atlas 9, 

 tab. 409, Pomac. tab. 10, fig. 5) of this species. Compared with a specimen 7? 

 inches long from Samoa identified by Jordan and Seale as A. septemfasciatus, 

 their specimen has a steeper profile and much darker coloration, and the ventrals, 

 dorsal, anal, and caudal are blue-black, the caudal showing a trace of darker 

 margin; pectoral pale; this specimen also shows purplish brown streaks along 

 the rows of scales on the breast, not evident in our largest specimen, and but 

 faintly indicated in the smaller; these streaks are not of specific value, because 

 they are present in some specimens of A. declivifrons and absent in others. 



In the 7 inch specimen the head is 3.25 in length; depth 1.63; eye 3.81 in 

 head; preorbital 6.46; interorbital 2.47; dorsal XIII, 14 (13); anal II, 13 (12). 



In the 5| inch specimen the head is 3.18 in length; depth 1.66; eye 3.47 in 

 head; preorbital 6.60; interorbital 2.07; dorsal XIII, 14 (13); anal II, 14 (13). 



Abudefduf saxatilis (Linne). 



Jordan, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, ser. 2, 5, p. 475. 

 Chaelodon saxalilis Linn£, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 17.58, p. 276. 



Twenty-four specimens, f to 4^ inches long from Chatham Island, shore. 



