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Genus SCOLOPSIS Cuvier 



Scolopsis Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 1, p. 361, 1815. [Type, the 

 Curite of Russell {=Scolopsis curite Cuvier).] 



SCOLOPSIS TRILINEATUS Kner 



Scolopsis trilineatiis Kner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 57, pt. 1, pp. 27, 30, pi. 

 2, fig. 5, 18G8. 



115662, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, L. P. Schultz and Frank Taiga, June 4, 

 1939, 2 specimens. 



52528, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 4 specimens. 



Genus GNATHODENTEX Bleeker 



Onathodentex Bleeker, Versel. Akad. Am!<terdam, vol. 7, p. 41, 1873. [Type, 

 Gnathodentex aureoUneatus=Pentapus anreoUneatus (Lacepede).] 



GNATHODENTEX AUREOLINEATUS (Lacepede) 



Sparus aureolineatus Lacepede, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 4, pp. 42, 

 132, 1802. 



115665, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, L. P. Schultz and Frank Taiga, June 4, 

 1939. 28 specimens. 



115666, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 2 si)ecimens. 



115668, Tutuila Island, reef at entrance Pago Pago Bay, June 2, 1939, 4 speci- 

 mens. 



115667, Rose Island, lagoon, June 12 to 20, 1939, 4 specimens. 



115669, Rose Island, reef, June 12 to 20, 1939. 2 specimens. 

 52362, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 4 specimens. 



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

 Pago Pago Bay, all fins pink, margin of pelvic spines blackish ; back 

 yellowish with area of light lemon yellow^ at posterior base of soft 

 dorsal, this area saddle-shaped, and extending downward and for- 

 ward; sides of body below lateral line with four orange-yellow lines; 

 a fifth pink one very narrow ; maxillaries orange; behind the corner of 

 jaw is an orange spot in line with the front margin of eye; lower jaw 

 pinkish; base of pectoral yellow. 



Genus APRION Valenciennes 



Aprion Valenciennes, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des pois- 

 sons, vol. 6, p. 544, 1830. (Type, Aprion virescens Valenciennes. ) 



APRION VIRESCENS Valenciennes 



Aprion virescens Valenciennes, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire natui'elle 

 des poissons, vol. 6, p. 544, pi. 168, 1830. 



1153.32, Tutuila Island, off Steps Point, July 2, 1939, caught by William Debbs 

 Martin, U.S.N., while trolling, 1 specimen. 



Dorsal rays X, 11; anal III, 8; .scales, 49 along lateral line; gill 

 rakers on first gill arch 7+1 + 15, 



