FISHES OF THE PHOENIX AND SAMOAN ISLANDS 149 



Genus HENIOCHUS Cuvier 



Heniochus CtrviEE, RC'gne animal, ed. 1, vol. 2, p. 335, 1817. (Type, Chaetodon 

 macrolepidotus Bloch.) 



HENIOCHUS VARIUS (Cnvicr) 



TaurichtJiys varius Cv\mR, R^gne animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 128, 1829. 



115068, Tutuila Island, reef at entrance to Pago Pago Bay, June 2, 1939, 1 

 specimen. 



52515, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



HENIOCHUS ACUMINATUS (Linnaeus) 



Chaetodon acum'matus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 272, 1758. 

 52471, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



HENIOCHUS PERMUTATUS Cuvier 



Heniochus permufatus Citvjer, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle 

 des poissons, vol. 7, p. 99, 1830. 



115067, Tutuila Island, reef at entrance to Pago Pago Bay, June 2, 1939, 2 

 specimens. 



115066, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, June 4, 1939, L. P. Scliultz and Frank 

 Taiga, 3 specimens. 



52523, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 3 specimens. 



HENIOCHUS MONOCEROS Cuvier 



Heniochus monoceros Cuvier, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des 

 poissons, vol. 7, p. 100, 1831. 



No specimens in National Museum from Phoenix and Samoan 

 Islands, 



Genus MEGAPROTODON Guichenot 



Megaprotodon Guichenot, Rev. Zool., vol. 11, p. 12, 1848. (Type, Chaetodon 

 hifasciatus Cuvier and Valenciennes.) 



MEGAPROTODON STRIGANGULUS (Gmelin) 



Shaetodon striganguU Gmelin, Systema naturae, ed. 13, p. 1269, 1788. 



Color notes from crayon sketches: Adult: Marginal area of spiny 

 and soft dorsal orange; upper lip and tip of snout orange; band 

 through eye bordered with white, then yellow; base of pectoral 

 orange; anal orange below the submarginal black line; rear margin 

 of anal, soft dorsal, and caudal hyaline ; upper and lower margins of 

 caudal peduncle yellow ; caudal peduncle and basal half of caudal fin 

 black, then a transverse band of yellow-orange; pelvics yellow. 

 Young: Anterior part of head yellow; band through eye similar to 

 adult ; pelvics yellow ; posterior part of body from soft dorsal to anal 

 black, the outer angles of soft dorsal and anal yellow ; caudal peduncle 

 and basal half of caudal fin yellow instead of black as in adult. 



