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STETHOJULIS STRIGIVENTER (Bennett) 

 JuUs strigiventer Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1832, p. 184. 



115623, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 1 specimen, 38 mm. 

 standard length. 



Genus HEMIGYMNUS Gunther 



Hemigymnus Guntheb, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 386, 1861. (Type Mullus 

 fascia tus Thunberg, 1776.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF HEMIGYMNUS FROM THE PHOENIX AND SAMOAN ISLANDS 

 BASED ON SPECIMENS IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 



la. Anterior iwrtion of body pale, mostly white in alcohol, blackish color begins 

 abruptly at a line beginning at origin of dorsal, thence downward to middle 

 distance between base of pelvics and anal origin; very margin of caudal 

 fin with white; caudal, dorsal, and anal fins blackish or brownish; dorsal 

 and anal with narrow pale band along their margins ; i)ectoral and pelvic 

 fins pale ; blackish patch behind eye ; in my specimens the pale bar across 

 the caudal region is faint and lacking in a few ; dorsal rays IX, 11 ; anal 

 III, 11; pectoral 13; gill rakers on first gill arch 8+19; scale rows 27. 



Hemigymnus melapterus (Bloch) 



16. Body with a white bar at front of dorsal, another from dorsal to origin of 

 anal ; third from middle of soft dorsal to middle of anal, last across caudal 

 peduncle just past rear of bases of dorsal and anal ; head paler than body 

 with a pale streak forward from eye, another below eye, these separated 

 by a darker streak ; dorsal rays IX, 11 ; anal III, 11 ; pectoral 13 ; scale 

 rows 27; gill rakers 7+18 Hemigymnus fasciatus (Bloch) 



HEMIGYMNUS MELAPTERUS (Bloch) 



Labrus melapterus Bloch, Naturgeschichte der auslandischen Fische, pt. 5, 

 p. 137, pi. 285, 1791. 



115626, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 115625, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, June 4, 1939, L. P. Schultz and Frank 

 Taiga, 4 specimens. 

 52486, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 7 specimens. 



HEMIGYMNUS FASCIATUS (Bloch) 



Lahrus fasciatus Block, Naturgeschichte der auslandischen Fische, pt. 6, p. 6, 

 pi. 290, 1792. 



52443, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



Genus ANAMPSES Quoy and Gaimard 



Anampscs Quoy and Gaimard (after Cuvier's MS.), Voyage autour du monde . . . 

 Uraine, p. 276, 1824. (Type Anantpscs cuvicr Quoy and Gaimard.) 



Since we have specimens of but one of the three species of Anmri'pses 

 [A. caeruleo-punctatus^ A. mclanurus, and A. diadematus) reported 

 from the Samoan Islands, no key has been attempted by me. 



ANAMPSES CAERULEO-PUNCTATUS Ruppell 



Anampses caernlco-punctatus Rijppbxl, Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika, 

 Fische, p. 42, pi. 10, fig. 1, 1828. 



83015, Hull Island, Wilkos Exploring Expedition, 1 specimen. 

 52428, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 4 specimens. 

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