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HOLOCENTRUS VIOLACEUS Bleeker 



Holocentrum violaceum Bleekee, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., vol. 5, p. 335, 18531 



115272, Canton Island, lagoon, May 23-25, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 52385, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 8 specimens. 



HOLOCENTRUS BINOTATUS Quoy and Gaimard 



Solocentrum bmotatum Quoy and Gaimaed, Voyage de d^couvertes de 

 L'Astrolabe . . ., vol. 3, p. 679, pi. 14, fig. 4, 1834. 



116751, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



HOLOCENTRUS CAUDIMACULATUS Ruppell 



Holocentrus caudmaculatus RiJppEiiL, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische, p. (97) 103, 

 1835. 



52414, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 6 specimens. 

 HOLOCENTRUS SPINIFER (Forsk&l) 



Sciaena spinifera ForskSl, Descriptiones animalium, pp. 12, 49, 1775. 



115266, Tutuila Island, reef at entrance Pago Pago Bay, June 12, 1939, 7 

 specimens. 



115267, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 16 specimens. 

 115265, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 2 specimens. 



115268, Canton Island, lagoon, May 23-25, 1939, 3 specimens. 



HOLOCENTRUS LACTEO-GUTTATUS Cuvier 



Holocentrus lacteo-guttatum Cuvieb, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire 

 naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, p. 214, 1829. 



115235, Enderbury Island, reef. May 15-19, 1939, 35 specimens. 



115230, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 5 specimens. 



115231, Canton Island, lagoon, May 2:3-25, 1939, 2 specimens. 



115233, Tutuila Island, Fagasa Bay, rock pools, June 5, 1939, 6 specimens. 



115234, Swains Island, roef, IMay 3-9, 1939, 29 specimens. 



115232, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 24 specimens. 



115229, Tutuila Island, reef at entrance Pago Pago Bay, June 2, 1939, 2 

 specimens. 



115226, Tau Island, reef at Siulagi Point, June 27, 1939, 5 specimens. 

 115228, Hull Island, channel, July 7-17, 1939, 2 specimens. 



115224, Hull Island, reef, July 12-15, 1939, 4 specimens. 



115225, Rose Island, lagoon, June 12-20, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115227, Hull Island, reef, July 13, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 •52199, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 4 specimens. 



Color in life, from notes on a specimen taken from reef at entrance 

 to Pago Pago Bay : Upper half of body red ; fins lighter red or dark 

 pinkish; pectoral fin tinged with pink; margin of anal spine wliite; 

 cheek and center of opercle whitish as in lower half of body in front 

 of anal fin; eye yellowish, blackish dorsally; membranes between 

 spines of dorsal at margin with bright-red spots. 



