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bones striate. Preopercle spine reaches back only to bony edge of infraopercle. 

 Preorbital very narrow, and suborbital chain but little wider, its edge more weakly 

 serrate than finely serrated preorbital edge. Rakers ii 2+9 iii, lanceolate, about 

 three-fourths of filaments, which one-third of eye. Scales largest on flanks, smaller 

 on predorsal and breast. Cheek with 5 rows of scales. Scales with parallel vertical 

 striae 60 to 70 basally; 8 blunt, short basal denticles; 16 to 18 broad, strong apical 

 spines. 



Color when fresh in alcohol bright rosy-red generally, with 3 rows of narrow, dark 

 longitudinal bands above the lateral line and 5 broad ones below. Later these faded 

 out below and made up of brownish dots, as seen under a lens. Upper surface of head 

 washed with pale browTiish. Iris silvery, fading slaty. Spinous dorsal pale rosy 

 generally, fading whitish, except large median black blotch on first two membranes, 

 then black blotch submarginallj'^ after each dorsal spine, and from fourth spine basally 

 black band back to last spine. Other fins all uniform pale rosy, fading whitish. 



One example, 78 mm. long, from coral in reef in front of the hospital, Pago Pago 

 Harbor. It differs from examples in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 

 in the much shorter preopercular spine and the coloration. It has more whitish on 

 the spinous dorsal, lacks entirely the blackish on the front part of the ventrals and anal, 

 besides having a pale or whitish pectoral axil. 



Holocentrus praslin Lacdp^de. 



Small examples from tide-pools near Double Point, just west of entrance to Pago 

 Pago Harbor. 



Holocentrus sammara (Forskal). 



One example from Pago Pago, 100 mm. long. It agrees with Bleeker's figure in 

 the anterior dark blotch on spinous dorsal median and lengthwise. Jordan and Scale' 

 describe four examples from Samoa. First has "spinous dorsal broadly edged with 

 blood red." Second has "dorsal maroon, whitish spots at base, tips white, and front 

 of fin with large, black, red-washed blotch." Third with "large black blotch on front 

 of spinous dorsal." Fourth with "front of soft dorsal with very large blotch of maroon- 

 black, fin otherwise flesh-color, tips white." In a Hawaiian example Jordan and 

 Evermann show lengthwise lines made up of dark spots. 



Also 3 small examples from cove just south of Aua village, April 5, 1917. In two 

 of these the front of the spinous dorsal has a large black blotch and succeeding mem- 

 brane with less distinct dark blotches. Remaining example with spinous dorsal 

 uniformly pale or whitish. 



CHEILODIPTERID^. 



Amia savayensis (Giinther). 

 Five from reef in front of hospital, Pago Pago Harbor. Fourteen from cove just 

 south of Aua village. These agree in every way with the large series of Philippine 

 examples in the Philadelphia Academy. 



Amia novemfasciata Cuvier. 

 Adult and young example from tide pools near Double Point, just west of entrance to 

 Pago Pago Harbor, March 20, 1917. Two also from Pago Pago. 



Fowleria marmorata (Alleyne and Macleay). 



Head 2.5; depth 3, D. VIII-I, 9; A. II, 9; scales 23 in lateral hne to caudal base and 

 2 more on latter; 2 scales above lateral line, 6 below; 8 predorsal scales; snout 4,16 

 in head; eye 3.87; maxillary 2; interorbital 5.5. 



Body elongate, compressed, deepest at spinous dorsal origin, profiles alike. Caudal 

 peduncle compressed, least depth 1.12 its length. Head large, compressed, profiles 



> Bull. Bureau of Fisheries, XXV, 1905, p. 227. 



