FISHES OF THE PHOENIX AND SAMOAN ISLANDS 221 



SCARUS GUTTATUS Bloch 



Bcarus guttatus Bloch, in Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae . . ., p. 294, 1801. 

 Color is same as shown on plate 161 in Giinther's Fische der Siidsee. 

 52389, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 2 specimens. 



SCARUS DIMIDIATUS Bleeker 



Bcarus dimidiatus Bleekee, Act. Boc. Sci. Ind. Neeil., vol. 6, No. 2, p. (5) 17, 

 1859. 



Color pattern as shown plate 16, figure 1, in Bleeker's Atlas. 



51745 (type of C fumifrons Jordan and Seale), Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan 

 and Kellogg. 



SCARUS SORDIDUS Forsk&l 

 Bcarus sordidus ForskIx, Descriptiones animalium . . ., pp. X, 30, 1775. 



Fowler has referred the following specimens to the synonymy of 

 Callyodon sordidus. The color has faded so much on them now 

 that it is not easy to verify the identifications. 



51756 (type of Callyodon cyanogrammus Jordan and Seale), Samoa, Jordan 

 and Kellogg. 



51754 (type of Callyodon aMciirtis Jordan and Seale), Samoa, Jordan and 

 Kellogg. 



51822, .51830, 51831 (paratypes of C. aMcurus Jordan and Seale), Apia, 

 Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg. 



51748 (type of Callyodon pyrrhurus Jordan and Seale), Samoa, Jordan and 

 Kellogg. 



51823, 51836 (paratypes of Callyodon pyrrhurus Jordan and Seale), Apia, 

 Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg. 



SCARUS ERYTHACUS (Jordan and Seale) 



Callyodon erythacus Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905), 

 p. 318, fig. 58, 1906. 



This species resembles C. dubius and may be the same. The chief 

 difference is the lack of pale lines on the abdomen, and only the upper 

 edge of the pectoral base is blackish, in alcohol. 



115871, Hull Island, reef, July 12-15, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115870, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, June 4, 1939, L. P. Schultz and Frank 

 Taiga, 9 specimens. 



115867, Hull Island, channel, July 8-12, 1939, 5 specimens. 



115868, Hull Island, channel, July 7-17, 1939, 6 specimens. 



115869, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 115866, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 23 specimens. 



51750 (type of Callyodon erythacus Jordan and Seale), Apia, Samoa, Jordan 

 and Kellogg). 



Order GOBIOIDEA 



Authors interested in the South Pacific gobioids should carefully 

 consider and examine the data presented in the keys to this group of 

 fishes, because my examination of the type specimens of Jordan and 



