26 Fishes of the South Pacijie. 



One specimen, No. 1328 B. M., Shortland Id., Solomons. 



Five specimens, Nos. 1603-1607 B. AI., from Raiatea, Society 

 Ids. 



One specimen, No. 197 1 B. M., from Rarotonga, Cook Ids. 



Two specimens, No. 2277-227S B. M., from Nukuhiva, Mar- 

 quesas Ids. 



Myripristis sanguineus Jordan & Scale, new species. 



Head 3.4; depth 2.50; eye 2.50 in head; D. x-i, 14; A. iv, 

 13; scales 4-38-7. 



Body elongate, deep and compressed; head blunt, its length 

 less than its depth; snout short, its length from the upper nostril 

 equal to pupil; premaxillary slightly protracted; maxillary reach- 

 ing to a line below the posterior edge of pupil, its distal end broad, 

 4.50 in head, its lower posterior margin armed with blunt teeth; 

 lower mandible 1.50 in head; bands of small teeth in jaws, vomer 

 and palatins; a patch of enlarged blunt outer teeth on each side of 

 upper and lower jaw; gill-rakers numerous, long and strong; inter- 

 orbital space 3.85 in head; opercles striate, and denticulate, with 

 one small spine at angle; scales all striate and toothed; a row of 

 modified scales over the nuchal region; origin of dorsal about even 

 with base of ventrals and on line with the third scale of the lateral 

 line; dorsal spines slender, the first 2.75 in head; the third is the 

 longest, 2 in head; anterior dorsal and anal rays somewhat pro- 

 duced, their length i .50 in head; the third anal spine the strongest, 

 the fourth the longest being equal to orbit; caudal emarginate; 

 pectoral reaching to the eleventh scale of the lateral line. 



Color in life red, a black opercular spot; fins all red, the dorsal 

 a pale red with the margin a deep crimson; the outer margin of the 

 soft dorsal and the anal are also a darker red. 



Color in spirits, pale yellowish, the fins are a brighter yellow- 

 ish; a dusky blotch at posterior margin of opercles. 



Two specimens, Xos. 1445 (Fig. 7) and 1446 B. M., from 

 Tahiti, vSociety Ids. Another, the type of the species, was taken 

 by Jordan & Kellogg at Apia, Samoa. 



Myripristis adustus Bkeker. 



Two specimens, Nos. 1447 and 1448 B. M., from Tahiti. 

 One specimen. No. 1195* B. M., from Shortland Id., Solomons. 



Myripristis murdjan (Forskal). 



One specimen. No. 161 8 B. AL, from Raiatea Id., Society Ids. 

 Two specimens, Nos. 1967 and 1968 B. M., from Rarotonga. 

 Five specimens, Nos. 1473-1476 and 1538 B. M., from Tahiti. 

 Four specimens, Nos. 996, 1000*, 982 and 976 B. M., from 

 Fate, New Hebrides. 



