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I have studied numerous specimens in lots from the following 

 localities: Ifaluk Atoll, 1 lot, and Philippines, 56 lots. 



Scarus oviceps Cuvier and Valenciennes 



Plate 18,b 



Scarus oviceps Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 14, 

 p. 244, 1839 (type locality: Tahiti; the following types were examined in 

 the Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., Paris, Cat. Nos. 561 and 1731g). 



Pseudoscarus zonatus Macleay, Proc. Linnean Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, 

 p. 591, 1883 (type locality: New Guinea). 



Pseudoscarus knerii Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 96, pt. 1, p. 64, 

 pi. 4, fig. 1, 1887 (type locality: Madagascar?). 



This species is characterized by having white teeth; ii,12 pectoral 

 rays; 6 or 7 median predorsal scales, 3 rows of scales on cheek with 

 3 or 4 scales in lower row; coloration of head dark dorsally, abruptly 

 pale ventrally below a line from snout past lower edge of orbit to 

 above upper edge of pectoral base, near angle of opercle; the dark 

 back broken by 2, rarely 3, light yellowish bars that slant strongly 

 forward as they pass ventrally; lips cover or nearly cover the teeth. 

 The young have a blackish streak from snout through eye to angle of 

 opercle. 



I have studied num^erous specimens from the following localities: 

 Samoa, 3 lots; Celebes, 1; Kapingamarangi Atoll, 6; Christmas Island 

 and Fire Islands, 1; and Philippines, 5. 



Scarus niger Forskal 



Figure 19; Plates 18,c; 27,b 



Scarus niger Forskil, Descriptiones animalium . . . , pp. x, 28, 1775 (type 

 locality: Red Sea); Ruppell, Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika . . . , 

 Fische des rothen Meeres, p. 24, pi. 8, fig. 1, 1835 (Red Sea). 



Scarus nuchipunctatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, 

 vol. 14, p. 224, 1839 ("Sea of the Indies"). 



Scarus limbatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 14, 

 p. 271, 1839 (type locality: Java). 



Pseudoscarus nuchipunctatus Bleeker, Atlas ichthyologique . . . , vol. 1, p. 31, 

 pi. 10, fig. 2, 1862. 



Pseudoscarus flavomarginatus Kner, Fische, in Reise der . . . Novara, p. 262, 

 pi. 10, fig. 2, 1866 (type locality: Java). 



Callyodon maoricus Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905), p. 328, 

 pi. 48, fig. 3, 1906 (type locality: Pago Pago; holotype USNM 51747, para- 

 type 51833). 



Callyodon lineolahiatus Fowler and Bean, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 100, vol. 7, 

 p. 457, pi. 47, 1928 (type locality: Butauanan Island, Philippine Islands; 

 holotype not studied). 



Callyodon niger J. L. B. Smith, Rhodes Univ. Ichthy. Bull. No. 1, p. 13, pi. 43, 

 c, G, 1956 (east coast of Africa south to lat. 14° S.). 



