380 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



LEPTOSCARUS VAIGIENSIS (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Scarus vaigiensis Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., December 18, 1824, 

 p. 288. "Vaigiou" (Waigiu). 



Scarichthys vaigiensis Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, vol. 11, 

 1865, p. 63 (type). 



Callyodon vaigiensis Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 383 (Biaru, 

 Saleyer, Nusa Laut, Rotti). 



Scarus spinidens Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., December 28, 

 1824, p. 289. Vaigiou (same type as Scarus vaigiensis). 



Callyodon spinidens Bleeker, Atlas Ich. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 13, pi. 2, 

 fig. 2 (Sumatra, Cocos, Bali, Sangi, Ternate, Amboina, Banda). — Gxjnther, 

 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 215 (Amboina, Moluccas).— 

 Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 397 (Amboina). — Stein- 

 uachner, Abhandl. Senckenberg. Gesell., vol. 25, 1900, p. 443 (Ternate). 



Callyodon genistriatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 293. 

 No locality. — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 13, pi. 1, 

 fig. 1 (Celebes and Banda). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 

 1862, p. 215 (East Indies); Fishes of Zanzibar, 1865, p. 103. — Guichenot, 

 Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, vol. 11, 1865, p. 61 (type). — Evermann 

 and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 95 (Zamboanga 

 and Jolo).— GtJNTHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 3 (6), 1909-10, p. 300, 

 pi. 150 (Zanzibar, Ponape, New Britain, Upolu, Tahiti, Fiji, Bleeker's 

 example) . 



Callyodon hypselosoma Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 8, 1855, p. 425. 

 Amboina. 



Callyodon moluccensis (not Bleeker) Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 28, 1905, p. 789 (Negros). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. 

 Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 268 (Cuyo). 



Calotomus irradians Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. 19, 1899 (1900), 

 p. 58, fig. 15. Honolulu. 



Scarichthys coeruleopunctahis (part) Kendall and Goldsborough, Mem. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 26, 1911, p. 304 (Vavau). 



Depth 2^4 to 23^; head 3 to 3}i, width l>g to 2. Snout 2% 

 to 21^; eye 5^ to 8^, 2}4 to 2}4 in snout, 1% to 1 3/^ in inter- 

 orbital; mouth cleft 3% to 3^ in head; outer upper teeth 21 in 2 

 irregular compressed rows and inner teeth as patch of 7 obtuse ones 

 or only few conic; lower teeth in 7 superimposed rows each side, 

 2 to 5 teeth in a row; interorbital 4 to 4}i in head, broadly convex. 

 Gill rakers 4 + 9, short, rather flexible. 



Scales in lateral hne 18 or 19, 4 + 2; 2 scales above lateral line, 

 6 below, 4 predorsal; single row of 3 or 4 scales on cheek. Scales 

 with 15 to 32 basal radiating striae, apical imperfectly 34 to 39; 

 circuli fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, ninth spine 2 to 2^ in head, first ray 2 to 2%; A. Ill, 

 9, I, third spine 3^ to 4:%, first ray 2}i to Z}i; caudal IM to \}4, 

 emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 134 to 1^; pectoral, 

 13^ to l}i; ventral, 1}^ to Iji. 



Brown, mottled, or marbled obscurely with darker, also fine whitish 

 dots scattered about and base of each scale with pale area. From 

 eye 3 dark bands radiate forward, 3 above, and 3 behind. Two dark 

 bands across mandible. Vertical fins brown, like body, end of mem- 



