FISHES OF THE PHOENIX AND SAAIOAN ISLANDS 53 



MURAENICHTHYS LATICAUDATA (Ogilby) 



FiGUUE 5, c 



Myropternra laticandota Ogit.by, Froc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 22, 



p. 247, 1897. 

 Muracnichthys cooled Fowlkr, Fishes of Oceania, p. 41, fig. 0, 1928. 



115978, Rose Island, lagoon, June 12 to 20, 1939, 1 specimen, 187 mm. 



115979, Swains Island, reef. May 3-9, 1939, 4 specimens 114 to 162 mm. A 

 female, 120 mm. long, contains mature eggs that are loose in the body cavity. 

 The eggs mc^asure about 1 mm. in diameter. 



115975 Tutuila Island, Fagasa Bay, rock pools, June 5, 19;>9, 8 specimens, 

 113, 123, and 130 mm. 



115!)77, Rose Isl:ind, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 19 specimens, 71 to 132 mm. The 

 j32-mm. female contains eggs, about 1 mm. in diameter, loose in the body 

 cavity. 



115976, Tau Island, reef at Siulagi Point, June 27, 1939, 3 specimens, 76 to 

 215 mm. 



Order INIOMI 



Family SYNODONTIDAE 



Genus SYNODUS Scopoli 



Synodns [Gronovius, Zoophylacii Gronoviani . . ., vol. 1, p. 112, 1703] Scopoli, 

 Introductio ad historian! naturalem . . ., p. 449, 1777. — Meuschen, Museum 

 Gronovianuni . . ., p. 35, 1778. — Dlocii, in Schneider, Systenia ichthyolo- 

 giae . . ., p. 396, 1801. (Type, Esox sijnodus Linnaeus.) 



SYNODUS VARIEGATUS (Laccpede) 



Salmo varicgatus L.vcepkde, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 5, p. 157, pi. 3, 

 tig. 3, 1S03. 



115412, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115409, Rose Island, lagoon, June 12-20, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115408, Canton Island, lagoon, April 23 to May 12, 1930, 1 .specimen. 



115411, Canton Island reef of widest shallow channel. May 13, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115410, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115407, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, June 4, 1939, L. P. Schultz and Frank 

 Taiga, 3 specimens. 



115406, Tau Island, reef at Siulagi Pt., June 27, 1939, 4 specimens. 

 52457, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



Genus SAURIDA Valenciennes 



Savrida Valenciennes, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle poissons, 

 vol. 22, p. 499, 1849. (Type Salnio tumbil Bloch.) 



SAURIDA GRACILIS (Quoy and Gaiinard) 



Saurus gracilis Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage autour du nionde . . . Uranie, Pois- 

 sons, p. 224, 1824. 



115405, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 2 specimens. 

 115404, Rose Island, lagoon, June 12-20, 19.'j9, 4 specimens. 

 52295, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



