FISHES OB' TEIE PHOENIX AND SAMOAN ISLANDS 155 



Genus CENTROPYGE Kaup 



Centroiyyge Kaup, Arcliiv Natiirg., vol. 26. pt. 1, p. 140, 1860. (Type, C tibicen 

 Kaup.) 



CENTROPYGE FLAVISSIMUS (Cuvier) 



Holacaiithus flavissiinus Cuviek, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle 

 des poissons, vol. 7, p. 197, 1831. 



llSOiio, Hull Island channel, July 7-17, 1939, 3 specimens. 

 1150(53, Rose Island lagoon, June 12-20, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 52472, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 5 specimens. 



CENTROPYGE BICOLOR (Bloch) 



Chaetodon bicolor Bloch, Naturgeschichte der ausUiudischen Fische, pt. 3, p. 

 94, pi. 206, fig. 1, 1787. 



50995, Pago Pago, Samoa, Joi'dau and Kellogg, 11 specimens. 

 52301. Samoa. Jordan and Kellogg, 4 specimens. 



CENTROPYGE BISPINOSUS (Gunthcr) 



Holacanthus bispinoxus Gunthkr. Catalogue of the fishes of the British Museum, 

 vol. 2, pp. 48, 516, 1860. 



The specimens from Pago Pago reported upon by Jordan and 

 Seale, 1906, were described as Oentropyge tutuiloe Jordan and Jor- 

 dan, and the type, No. 3902, is in the Carnegie Museum ; the paratype, 

 No. 8750, is at Stanford University. 



Family ZANCLIDAE 

 Genus ZANCLUS Cuvier 



Zanclus Cuvier, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 

 7, p. 102, 1831. (Type, Chaetodon cornutus Linnaeus.) 



ZANCLUS CORNUTUS (Linnaeus) 



Chaetodon cornutus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 273, 1758. 



All the Samoan specimens lack the recurved spine above angle of 

 mouth as found in Z. canescens. 



Dorsal rays VII, 40-41, anal III, 31-35. Three wide vertical black 

 bars, one through region of gill opening to origin of dorsal ; the second 

 from middle of base of anal to middle of dorsal, the last across the 

 caudal fin; region of lower jaw black; midline of snout black, and 

 two narrow lines blackish in color running from same point on side 

 of snout to midline of snout, one forward and the other backward; 

 pelvics black. 



115010, Rose Island reef, June 11-14, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 115009, Swains Island reef, May 3-9, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115011, Tutulla Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 2 specimens. 



115008, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, June 4, 1939, L. P. Schultz and Frank 

 Taiga. 5 specimens. 



