FISHES. 85 



Hagonfa Oxymonacnntluia Jongirofitris Bleeker. 



A small filc-tish; mouth like a turned-up beak; skiu blue with orange 

 spots. Collected June 14, 1900. 



Haluo. Carrliarids mel(inopteni.,s Q. & G. 

 A shark with dark-colored fins. 



Hamdktan. Zebrasoma gntt(iiiit< Forster. 



A spotted lancet-fish. Body elevated, compressed, short; brownish 

 speckled with round white dots; 2 bluish-white cross bands on the 

 bod}- and 1 on the shoulders, extending down on opercles; tail armed 

 with spines; tail and ventral fins yellow; mouth like the snout of a 

 sheep. This species occurs also in Hawaii. 



Hankut. Hemiramphus limbatus Cuv. & Val. Half-beak. 



Upper jaw short; lower jaw prolonged into a beak. In Samoa 

 allied species are called ^"ise;" in Hawaii "ihe-ihe." 



Hasule. AngniUa sp. 



An eel living in fresh-water streams. Edible. 



Higum. Harjie axillaris (Bennett). 



A small-mouthed fish, belonging to the Labridae, the family which 

 also includes the tatalun, gadu, and tatanung. The anterior half of 

 the body is dark-colored, the posterior half of a livid salmon-color; 

 caudal fin yellow; spinous dorsal fin l)rown; posterior half of soft 

 dorsal and anal fins light yellowish; a deep black spot on the first 3 

 dorsal spines; a black spot on base and in axil of pectoral fins. 



Hiting. Slganas hexagonata Giinther. 



Like a large sesyan (a little more than a foot long); dark purplish 

 with yellowish hexagonal spots. Other species of Siganas are Siga- 

 nas 'inarin<yixda Q. & G., Siganas rostrata Cuv. & Val., which is 

 bluish with indistinct markings of yellow spots and lines, and the 

 "mafiiihag," a fish which appears at intervals in great numbers and is 

 preserved In' the natives b}" drying. This name is probably applied 

 to the young of the hiting or the sesyan, or perhaps of both. 



Hiyug or Hidyug. Teuthis lineatus Bloch. 



A beautiful surgeon-fish; body elevated, compressed; movable white 

 spine on caudal peduncle; longitudinal stripes of yellow-black-blue- 

 l)lack-yellow extendiUji; back to root of caudal fin; blue line down 

 middle of forehead, dividing and forming ring al)out mouth; other 

 ))luo lines on each side of this. In Samoa this species is called 

 "'ulongo.'' 



Hugiipau. Monoceros garretti Seale. 



A black surgeon-fish, with two bony plates or keels on caudal 

 peduncle, having a yellow base; caudal fin black with subterminal 

 band of j^ellow and a marginal band of white; dorsal fin black with a 

 submargiual line of white, which begins very narrow and widens 



