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UROPTERYGIUS ALLARDICEI (Jordan and Starks) 



Figure, 3, c. 



Anarchias allardicei Jordan and Starks, in Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. B\ir. 

 Fish., vol. 25, p. 204, fig. 9, 190G. 



115919, Canton Island, lagoon. May 23-25, 1939, 1 specimen, 113 mm. 



115923, Canton Island, lagoon, April 23 to May 12, 1939, 3 specimens, 92 

 to 131 mm. 



115922, Canton Island, reef of widest shallow channel. May 13, 1939, 1 

 specimen, 98 mm. 



115921, Enderbury Island, reef, May 15-19, 1939, 27 specimens, 57 to 128 mm. 



11.5920, Canton Island, reef at ocean, April 25-28, 1939, 12 specimens, 52 

 to 130 mm. 



115918, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 1 specimen, 81 mm. 



51715 (type and paratype of Anarchias allardicei Jordan and Starks) Pago 

 Pago, Samoa. 



118166, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



This is a small species, as some of the females have swollen ab- 

 domens and contain eggs that measure as much as 2^4 mm. in 

 diameter. 



UROPTERYGIUS LEUCURUS Snyder 

 FiGtJBE 3, 6 



Uropfcrnfjius leucurus Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, p. 521, pi. 6, 

 fig. 12, 1904. 



115926, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 12 specimens, 82 to 200 mm. 



115924, Enderbury Island, reef, May 15-19, 1939, specimens, 63 to 118 mm. 



115925, Tau Island, reef at Siulagi Pt., June 27, 1939, 3 specimens, 64 

 to 114 mm. 



115927, Rose Island, lagoon, June 12-20, 1939, 2 specimens, 115 and 142 mm. 



115928, Swains Island, reef. May 3-9, 1939, 8 specimens, 98 to 170 mm. 



The type of Uropterygius leucui^s, U. S. N. M. No. 50871, from 

 Hawaii, has also been studied. 



UROPTERYGIUS POLYSPILUS (Regan) 

 Figure 3, d 

 Oymnomuraena polyspila Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 4, p. 438, 1909. 

 115910, Rose Island, reef, June 11—14, 1939, 2 specimens, 148 and 180 mm. 

 This species may be the j^oung of U. tigrinus. 



UROPTERYGIUS TIGRINUS (Lesson) 



JchthyopJiis tigrinus Lesson, Mem. See. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 4, p. 399, 1829. 

 52273, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen, 815 mm. 



