FISHES OF THE PHOENIX AND SAMOAN ISLANDS 293 



BALISTES FLAVIMARGINATUS Ruppell 



Balistes flavitnarglnatus Ruppexl, Atlas zu der Reise im nurdlichen Afrika, Fische, 

 p. 33, 1828. 



No specimen in National Museum from the Plioenix or Samoan 

 Islands. 



BALISTES CHRYSOPTERUS Bloeh 



Batistes chrijsoptervs Bt-och, in Schneider, Systema ichthyologicae ... p. 466, 

 1801 (type locality: Indian Ocean) (based on B. arme of Lacepfede, Histoire 

 naturelle des poissons, vol. 1^ p. 382, pi. 18, fig. 2, 1798). 

 52356, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



Family MONACANTHIDAE 



Genus CANTHERINES Swainson 



Cantherines Swainson, The natural history and classification of fishes, amphi- 

 bians and reptiles, or monocardian animals, etc., vol. 2, p. 327, 1839. (Type, 

 Monacantlms nasutus Quoy and Gaimard.) 



CANTHERINES SANDWICHIENSIS (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Balistes sandicichiensis Quoy and Gaimabd, Voyage autour du monde . . . Vranie, 

 Zool., p. 214, 1824. 



115303, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 7 specimens. 

 115305, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 4 specimens. 



115304, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, L. P. Schultz and Frank Taiga, 4 

 specimens. 



52516, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellog, 2 specimens. 



Genus MONACANTHUS Oken 



Monacanthtis Oken, Isis, 1817, p. 1183. (Type, Balistes cJiinensis Bloch.) 



MONACANTHUS MELANOCEPHALUS Bleeker 



Monacanthus melanocephalns Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned Ind., vol. 5, p. 95, 

 1853. 

 52336, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 4 specimens. 



Genus AMANSES Gray 



Amanses Gray, Illustrations of Indian zoology, vol. 2, p. 98, 1833. (Type, 

 Amanses hystrix Gray = Monacanthus scopas Cuvier.) 



AMANSES SCOPAS (Cuvier) 



Acanthurus scopas Cuvier, Regne animal, vol. 2, p. 224, 1829 (on Renard, Pois- 

 sons . . . isles Moluques , . ., vol. 1, pi. 40, flg. 210, 1718). 



52205, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 2 specimens. 



Genus OXYMONACANTHUS Bleeker 



Owynwnacanthus Bleekee, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 3, p. 16, 1S06. [Type, 

 Osoymonacanthus chrysospilus Bleeker ( = Batistes lonyirostris Bloch.)] 



