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pressed. Head ratlicr pointed. Eye large, .slightly advanced. No posterior canines. 

 Lips wide, upper covering greater part of teeth. C^audal slightly convex behind. 



Color in alcohol dull olive-brownish generallj'^, scarcely paler below, and without 

 conspicuous markings, though center of each scale little paler. Dark line on upper 

 lip. Dorsals and anals mottled brownish medianly. Caudal pale brownish, with 

 about 4 very obsolete or faint brownish cross-bars. Iris slaty. Length 46 mm. 

 From coral reef in front of hospital, Pago Pago Harbor. 



Head 2.33; depth 2.33 to 2.87, D. IX, 10; A. Ill, 9; scales 19 in upper arch of lateral 

 line, 4 in lower section to base of caudal and 1 more on latter; 1 scale above lateral 

 line and 6 below; snout 3.25 to 3.33 in head; eye 3.33 to 3.5; mouth 4.5 to 4.66; inter- 

 orbital 2.75 to 3. Three rows of scales on cheek. Body elongately ellipsoid, compressed. 

 Head pointed. Eye large, slightly advanced. No posterior canines. Lips moderate, 

 teeth broadly exposed. Caudal slightly convex behind. Color in alcohol pale 

 brownish-olive ^vith 4 broad dark-brownish longitudinal bands, expanded medially 

 and broader than pale interspaces, but not so on head. Pale-brown bar down from 

 lower anterior edge of eye, another from posterior edge. Lips dusted brownish. 

 Head mottled brownish above. At caudal base each median dark body-bar ends as 

 blackish blotch at base of each lobe, fin otherwise whitish. Dorsals and anals largely 

 deep dusky, at least basally, rest with other fins pale. Length 27 mm. Two from 

 cove just south of Aua village. 



Giinther unites this species with C. ruherrimus Jordan and Seale, and questionably 

 includes Pseudoscarus rubro-violaceus Steindachner and Scams paluca Jenkins. 



CH^TODONTIDiE. 



Chaetodon trifascialis Quoy and Gaimard. 



Two examples, 20 to 31 mm. long, from coral in reef in front of hospital, Pago Pago 

 Harbor. 



Chaetodon pelewensis Kner. 



One from Pago Pago. A comparison with Giinther's figure shows how crude his 

 representation really is. The scales in our specimen are all much finer on the fins, 

 pale ocular bar has dark border above the eye, ends of upper jaw dusky, 7 oblique 

 dark bars but little curved and lowest nearly straight, witli one on anal sub-basal!y, 

 the other close to the body edge, though not extending on caudal peduncle. Row of 

 dark spots between each defined dark bar and parallel. 



Chaetodon melannotus Schneider. 



Young example, 26 mm. long, from coral in reef in front of hospital, Pago Pago 

 Harbor. It agrees largely with Day's figure,^ except that the ocular bar is broader, 

 no black submarginal dorsal, anal, and caudal line, and the black on caudal peduncle 

 encompasses most all of the fin, leaving only narrow white crescent across caudal base. 



Two other examples, 24 mm. long, from cove just south of Aua village. 



Chaetodon miliaris Quoy and Gaimard. 



Four from cove just south of Aua village, largest 23 mm. Close to the young of 

 C. inelannotm, but differ in slightly less inclined lines on sides of body and presence of 

 blackish ventral and anal edge, last more broad anteriorly. 



Holacanthus nicobariensis (Schneider). 

 One small example from same locality as last. 



» Fishes of India, I, 1875, pi. 28, fig. 1. 



