172 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



9717. Una Una Road, Binang Unang Island, Celebes. November 17, 1909. 



Length 146 mm. 

 52493. U.S.N. M. Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 153 to 207 mm. Four 



examples. 

 56998 U.S.N.M. Pago Pago, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 205 to 220 



mm. Two examples. 



HOLACANTHUS FLAVISSIMUS Cuvier 



Holacanthus flavissimus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 197. Ulea 

 Carolines. — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeflfroy, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, 

 p. 52 (copied). — Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisheries, vol. 25, 1905 

 (1906), p. 348 (Pago Pago and Apia). — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., 

 vol. 3, 1915, p. 101 (Queensland). — Fowler, Occas. Papers Bishop Mus., 

 vol. 8, No. 7, 1923, p. 386 (Honolulu); Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 22, 1925, 

 p. 34 (Samoa). — Fowler and Ball, Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 26, 1925 

 (1926), p. 18 (Wake Island). 



Holacanthus hUeolus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 198, Tahiti. — 

 GtJNTHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffrov, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, p. 52, pi. 40, 

 fig. B. 



Holacanthus cyanotis Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 517. 

 Aneiteum, New Hebrides; Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 

 1874, p. 52, pi. 40, fig. A (New Hebrides, Kingsmills, Society Islands, 

 Paumotus, Hervey Islands, Samoa, Fiji). 



Holacanthus monophthalmus Kner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien., Math. 

 Naturw. Kl., vol. 56, 1867, p. 714. Islands of South Sea or west coast of 

 South America. [Raiatea, Society Islands.] 



Holacanthus ocularis Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 147. 

 South Seas. 



Holacanthus sphynx De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, 

 1884 (1885), p. 457. Queensland coast. 



Yellow in life with narrow dusky border around eye. Blue bar 

 along opercle edge. Pale brown bar across chin. Soft vertical fins 

 with white edges and dusky submarginal line. 



Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Hawaii. 



52472 U.S.N.M. Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Five examples. 



HOLACANTHUS BICOLOR (Bloch) 



Chaetodon hicolor Bloch, Naturg. Ausl. Fische, vol. 3, 1787, p. 94, pi. 206, 

 fig. 1. Both Indies. — Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1789, p. 

 1258 (Tropical America and India). — Walbaum, Arted. Pise, vol. 3, 

 1792, p. 418 (on Bloch). — Forster, Fauna Indica, 1795, p. 15. — 

 Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 218 (Tropical America and East 

 Indies). 



Chetodon hicolor Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 93, pi. 97, fig. 396 

 (East Indies). 



Holacanthus hicolor Lac^p^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1803, pp. 527, 535 

 (East Indies). — Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 167 (East 

 Indies.)— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 50 (East 

 Indies); Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, p. 51, pi. 39, 

 fig. B (Samoa, Solomons, Hawaii). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^er- 

 land., vol. 9, 1877, p. 61, pi. (7) 369, fig. 3 (Sumatra, Flores, Solor, Ter- 

 nate, Ceram, Amboina, Saparua, Banda, Aru, New Guinea). — De Vis, 



