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Genus HEMITAURICHTHYS Bleeker 



HEMITAURICHTHYS POLYLEPIS Bleeker. 



Kecorded by Fowler.^ ^ 



HEMITAURICHTHYS THOMPSONI Fowler. 



Described as new by Fowler. 



Genus CHAETODONOPLUS Bleeker 



CHAETODONTOPLUS ARCUATUS (Gray). 



A specimen, the second known, recorded by Fowler. 

 Genus CENTROPYGE Kaup 



CENTROPYGE FLAVISSIMUS (Cuvier). 



A specimen of this brilliantly yellow fish of the South Seas 

 recorded by Fowler. Body and fins entirely yellow, except for blue 

 edgings and lines. A small example supposed to be of this species 

 was seen in 1921 in the aquarium at Waikiki. 



Family ACANTHURIDAE 



Genus ACANTHURUS Foiskal 



{Hcpatus Gronow ; Tciitliis Liiiuaeu.s iu part, uot as usually restricted.) 



ACANTHURUS NIGRICANS (Linnaeu.s). 



Recorded by Fowler. 



ACANTHURUS THOMPSONI Fowler. 



Described by Fowler.^^ A species everywhere almost black, with 

 a jet black blotch in its axil below. 



Family LABRIDAE 



Genus DIASTODON Bowdich 



(Type. — Diastodon speciosus Bowdich=La})rus scrofa Cuvier and Valen- 

 cieunes. ) 



DIASTODON MODESTUS Garrett. 



This species, reported by Fowler, we have never seen. The figure 

 by Garrett ^^ shows small scales (about 53) and a large white blotch 

 below last rays of dorsal. The species can not therefore be referred 

 to Lepidaplois, in which genus the scales are about 33. It seems to 

 accord generically with the type of Diastodon. 



Genus LEPIDAPLOIS Gill 



{Gymnopropoma Gill.) 



The fact that in the type of Lepidaplois (axillaris) the scales 

 cover most of the preopercle, while in hilunulatus (type of Gymno- 



iBProc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 64, p. 384. 1912. 



i<' Fische der Siidsee ; copied in .Jordan and Evermaiin, Fishes of Hawaii, p. 279. 



