FISHES OF THE PHOENIX AND SAMOAN ISLANDS 137 



contributed over a long period of years to the knowledge of the fishes 

 of the Pacific area. 



HUGHICHTHYS MELANOTUS (Gunther) 



Cirrhites melanotus Gunther, Jouru. Mus. Godeffroy, vols. 2-3, pts. 5-6, p. 72, 

 pi. 52, fig. C, 1874. 



115754, Hull Islaud, channel, July 7-17, 1939, 1 specimen. 



Genus CIRRHITUS Lacepede 



Cirrhitns Lacep£:de, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 5, p. 2, 1803. (Tyi)e, 

 Cirrhitus maculatus Lacepede.) 



CIRRHITUS PINNULATUS (Bloch) 



Lahrus pinnulatus Bloch, in Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae, p. 264, 1801. 



115745, Enderbury Island, reef, May 15-19, 1939, 14 specimens. 

 115744, Rose Island, reef, June 11—14, 1939, 7 specimens. 



115746, Swains Island, reef. May 3-9, 1939, 8 specimens. 

 52442, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 3 specimens. 



Family SIGANIDAE 



Genus SIGANUS Forskal 



Sigatms Foeskal, Descriptiones animalium, pp. x, 25, 1775. [Type, Scarus rivu- 

 latus FovskM{= Scarus siganus ForskSl).] 



My material from the Phoenix and Samoan Islands is too scanty to 

 attempt to key out the species of Siganus reported from the region. 



SIGANUS SPINUS (Linnaeus) 



Sparus spinus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 281, 1758. 



This is the species that Jordan and Scale called S. marmoraty^. 



The following description is based on my collections: Caudal fin 

 scarcely forked ; ground color darker, with irregular, marbled, whitish 

 narrow bands, much curved dorsally and arranged somewhat longi- 

 tudinally ventrally ; tail and vertical fins marked with faint crossbars ; 

 a blackish area dorsally on orbit ; nasal flap on anterior nostril a trifle 

 longer than opening in posterior nostril ; teeth on upper pharyngeals 

 in two or three rows on each of the three bones; dorsal XIII, 10; anal 

 VII, 9; pectoral 17; teeth about 30+26; gill rakers 6 + 17. 



115210, Tutuila Island, reef at entrance Pago Pago Bay, June 2, 1939, 1 

 specimen, 



115211, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 7 specimens. 



115121, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, June 4, 1939, L. P. Schultz and Frank 

 Taiga, 23 specimens. 



52352, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 4 specimens. 



88068, Apia, Samoa, 3 specimens. 



41553, Samoan Islaud, 18S9, Dr. C. H. White, 1 specimen. 



