FISHES. 85 



Hagdnfa Oxymonacanthus longirostris Bleeker. 



A small file-fish; mouth like a turned-up beak; skin blue with orange 

 spots. Collected June 14, 1900. 



Haluo. Carcharias melanoplerus Q. & G. 

 A shark with dark-colored fins. 



Hamdktan. Zebrasoma guttatus Forster. 



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

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

 body 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 u ise;" in Hawaii "ihe-ihe." 



Hasule. Anguilla sp. 



An eel living in fresh-water streams. Edible. 



Higum. Harpe 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 brown; 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. Siganas 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 marmorata Q. & G., Siganas rostrata Cuv. & Val., which is 

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

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

 preserved by the natives by 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- 

 black-yellow extending back to root of caudal fin; blue line down 

 middle of forehead, dividing and forming ring about mouth; other 

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

 "alongo." 



Hugupau. 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 yellow and a marginal band of white; dorsal fin black with a 

 submarginal line of white, which begins very narrow and widens 



