FISHES OF THE PHOENIX AND SAMOAN ISLANDS 207 



115580, Hull Island, reef, July 12-15, 1939, 41 specimens. 

 115579, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 52210, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



THALASSOMA PURPUREUM (Forsk&I) 

 Scarus purpureus Forskal, Descriptiones animalium . . ., pp. x, 27, 1775. 



115561, Canton Island, reef at ocean, April 25-2S, 1939, 2 specimens. 



115562, Canton Island, lagoon, May 2.3-25, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115559, Enderhury Island, reef, May 15-19, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115560, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 1155.58, Hull Island, reef, July 12-15, 1939, 1 specimen. 



THALASSOMA TRILOBATA (Lacepede) 



Labrus trilobatus Lacepede, Histoire naturelle des poissous, vol. 3, pp. 454, 526, 

 pi. 4, fig. 3, 1SU2. 



115598, Canton Island, reef at ocean April 25-28, 1939, 4 specimens. 



115595, Enderbury Island, reef. May 15-19, 1939, 2 specimens. 



115596, Tau Island reef at Siulagi Point, June 27, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115597, Canton Island, lagoon, coral beads. May 23-25, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 52373, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



Color in life (from author's color crayon sketch of a specimen col- 

 lected at Canton Island) : Head pale orange, with blue upper lips and 

 pale blue chin ; two blue spots over eye and one below it ; tip of opercle 

 blue; blue at base of pectoral and blue behind it in axil; pelvic fin 

 blue and green ; along basal portion of dorsal and anal fins a narrow 

 orange band, above this through middle of fin a green band, thence a 

 series of orange spots between each ray on membranes, the edges 

 of these fins green ; upper and lower caudal rays and distal portion 

 of caudal fin blue; along mid-axis of body an orange band, another 

 on lower sides at about level of ventral edge of pectoral base ; middle 

 of upper sides with a row of oblong rectangular orange blotches, 

 these orange bands on sides connected with each other by straight 

 orange lines, the oblong rectangular interspaces bright green. 



Genus MACROPHARYNGODON Bleeker 



Macropharyngodon Bleeker, Proc. Zool. See. London, 1S61, p. 412; Versl. Akad. 

 Amsterdam, vol. 13, p. 100, 1802. (Type, Julis gcoffroyi Bleeker.) 



MACROPHARYNGODON GEOFFROYI (Bleeker) 



Julis geoffroyi Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage autour du monde . . ., Uranie, Zool., 

 p. 270, pi. 56, fig. 3, 3824. 



Although de Beaufort ^^'^ combines Leptojulis and Macropharyngo- 

 don, I have separated them here on the basis of the lateral line, in- 

 terrupted in the latter, complete in LeptojuUs parxlaVis, but this 

 may not be of generic significance. 



52304, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 spi'Cimen. 



21" Bijrtr.iKon Dierkund UitgeKeven Door Ilet Koninkliik Zool. Genootsclmp, pp. 1.5-17, 

 fig. 1, 1938. 



