Fishes of the Sozith Pacific. 63 



Callyodon ultramarinus Jordan & Scale, MS. 



Head gibbous, its length less than depth; teeth pea green, the 

 upper with a strong pointed tooth at angle: lips thin, single and 

 very narrow, scarcely covering basal third of the teeth; eye small, 

 8.10 in head: snout from anterior of orbit to tip of teeth, 2 in head; 

 interorbital space ver}- convex, 2.85 in head; snout with a very 

 prominent hump; cheeks with three series of scales, the lower 

 series impinging upon the limb of the preopercle, but covering 

 only its upper third; the lower limb of opercle with a single series 

 of scales, gill-rakers very fine and numerous. 



Scales of body large, a series of 4 in front of the ventral fins; 

 the ventrals 1.55 in head, their origin is under the middle of the 

 base of pectorals; pectorals 1.40 in head, their base is equal to the 

 angle of the mouth, 2.75 in the longest ray. 



Color: the upper half of head from a line with angle of jaws 

 to lower base of opercular flap, a uniform drab; the lower half and 

 the thorax are a uniform yellowish white, the line of demarcation 

 between the two colors is quite distinct; a narrow yellow line 

 covering lips; pectorals drab, the upper ray the axis and tip of 

 lower rays yellowish. 



One specimen (a head,' length 6 in.), No. 844 (Fig. 16) B. M., 

 from Mangareva Id. 



This species, of which the type is from Apia, Samoa, will be 

 described and figured in the forthcoming report of the collections 

 of Jordan & Kellogg in Samoa. 



Callyodon oviceps (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



One specimen, No. 1488 B. M., from Tahiti. 



Callyodon moensi (Bleaker). 



Three specimens, Nos. 1371-1373 B.M., from Tahiti. 

 Two specimens, Nos. 983 and 924 B. M., from Fate, New 

 Hebrides. 



Family TOXOTID^. 

 Toxotes jaculator Pallas. 



Four specimens, Nos. 1293-1296 B. M., from Shortland Id., 

 Solomons. 



Family PI.AT.F:id^. 

 Platax orbicularis Forskal. 



Seven specimens, Nos. io86*-i09i and 1155 B. M., from Short- 

 land Id., Solomons. 



"The head, with the pectorals and ventrals of this verj- large Parrot-fish, was brought 

 me bv a native. 



