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Table 14. — Counts made on two species of Mulloidichthys 



Genus MULLOIDICHTHYS Whitley 



MtilloidichiJiys Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 17, p. 122, 1929. [Type, 

 Mullus flaveolineatus Lacepede {—Mulloides Bleeker, preoccupied by Mul- 

 loidcs Richardson).] 



MULLOIDICHTHYS AURIFLAMMA (Forskal) 



Mullus auriflammu Forskal, Descriptiones animalium, pp. 10, 30, 1775. 



115691, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 12 specimens. 



115687, Hull Island, channel, July 7-17, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 115690, Hull Island, reef, July 13, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115689, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115688, Tutuila Island, reef at Pajjai, June 4, 1939, L. P. Schultz and Frank 

 Taiga, 1 specimen. 



115686, Canton Island, lagoon, caught by gill net. May 12-13 1939, 1 specimen, 

 52388, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 2 specimens. 

 56993, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



MULLOIDICHTHYS SAMOENSIS (Gunther) 



Mulloides samoensis GtJNXHER, Journ. Mus. Godeflfroy, vols. 2-3, pts. 5-6, p. 57, 

 pi. 43, fig. B, 1874. 



11567S, Hull Island, channel, July 8-12, 1939, 19 specimens. 



115682, Hull Island, channel, July 7-17, 1939, 5 specimens. 



115679, Hull Island, reef, July 12-15, 1939, 3 specimens. 



115680, Canton Island, lagoon. May 23-25, 1939, 4 specimens. 



115675, Canton Island, lagoon, caught with gill net, May 12-13, 1939, 18 

 specimens. 



115677, Canton Island, lagoon, April 23 to May 12, 1939, 7 specimens. 



115681, Canton Island, reef at ocean, April 25-28, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 115674, Swains Island, seine at night on beach. May 4, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115676, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 5 specimens. 



115683, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, June 4, 1939, L. P. Schultz and Frank 

 Taiga, 2 specimens. 



34806, Apia, Samoa, May 15, 1883, Dr. W. H. Jones, 1 specimen. 

 56999, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 3 specimens. 

 52488, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 5 specimens. 

 117801, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 2 specimens. 



