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life bright green. In alcohol head with reticulated narrow pale bands in large 

 curves with pale spots and dashes between them on lower half of head ; two 

 black bands behind eye, somewhat interrupted ; a wide diffuse black band ex- 

 tending from eye to about two-thirds the way back along mouth ; a narrow 

 black band extending upward above eye; posterior margin of caudal fin pale; 

 dorsal, anal, and caudal with numerous narrow black bands alternating with 

 pale one, undulating transversely across the fins, scales anteriorly, and ventrally 

 with vertical undulating black lines ; base of pectoral mottled. This large adult 

 has a hump developed on the top of the head, not found in the young of this 

 species. 

 52487, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



CHEILINUS DIAGRAMMUS (Lacepede) 



Labrus diagrammus Lacepede, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, pp. 448, 

 518, 1802. 



52402, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 2 specimens. 



CHEILINUS TRILOBATUS Lacepede 



Cheilinus triloMtus Lacepede, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, pp. 527, 

 537, pi. 31, fig. 3, 1802. 



115605, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, June 4, 1939, L. P. Schultz and Frank 

 Taiga, 1 specimen. 



115606, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, L. P. Schultz, 2 specimens. 

 100298, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 2 specimens. 



52422, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 7 specimens. 



CHEILINUS FASCIATUS (Bloch) 



8paru8 fasciatus Bloch, Naturgeschichte auslandischen Fische, vol. 5, p. 18, 

 pi. 257, 1791. 



52394, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 8 specimens. 



CHEILINUS CHLOROURUS (Bloch) 



Sparus chlorourus Bloch, Naturgeschichte der aiislandischen Fische, vol. 5, p. 

 24, pi. 260, 1791. 



52369, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 7 specimens. 

 82758, Samoa, Wilkes Exploring Expedition, 2 specimens. 



CHEILINUS UNIFASCIATUS Streets 



Cheilinus urdfasciatus Streets, U. S. Nat. IVlus. Bull. 7, p. 82, 1877 (4 co- 

 types, U. S. N. M. Nos. 19223, 19224, examined). 



Reported from the Samoan Islands. 



Genus PSEUDOCHEILINUS Bleeker 



Pseudocheilinus Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, p. 409 ; Versl. Akad. 

 Amsterdam, vol. 13, p. 95, 1862. (Type, Cheilinus hexataenia Bleeker.) 



PSEUDOCHEILINUS HEXATAENIA (Bleeker) 



Cheilinus hexataenia Bleekek, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Ncerl. (Amboina), vol. 2, p. 

 84, 1857.' 



115607, Rose Island, lagoon, June 12 to 20, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 52417, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 5 specimens. 



