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longer. Tlie color of the dorsal is usually characteristic, but the marks often fade in spirits. This 

 species is not recorded from the East Indies, where the closely related //. ladeocjuUatus seems to take 

 its place 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia called malau faiamii, freckled red, dark across gill-opening; 

 iris golden; first dorsal deep red on edge, other fins brick red, scarcely edged with paler; ventrals 

 brick red. A specimen from Pago Pago was pinkish, soiled by dark dots; dorsal deep red on edge, 

 pale at base; faint dark streaks on rows of scales; a red dash across cheek; fins light red; a dark 

 streak along anal. 



378. Holocentrus lacteoguttatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Xew Guinea; East Indies. 

 Iluloixntrus lacleo-yuttatum Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 214, East Indies. 



Holocentrus argenteum Quoy tt Gaima/d, Voy. Astrolabe, 677, 1835, Papua. Cuvier & Valenciennes, (ip. cit., 

 in, 2U. 

 This species is not known to us. It has not been recorded to the eastward of New (niineii. 

 According to KlunzingerJ the type of //. argnUerix, examined b}' him belongs to the species, for whicli 

 ive adopt the name lacteoyuttatus. 



379. Holocentrus diadema (Lac^pede). Malau lusitusi; Malaa pdiUi; Malau tui. Hawaii; Samoa; 



Tonga; Tahiti; Borabora; Laysan; Guam; Marcus I.; New Hebrides (Seale); East Indies. 



Tills small species, always known by its black .spinous dorsal and the alternate stripes of 

 white and red on the body, is very common at Samoa, and equally so at Hawaii. It is in general 

 the most abundant species of Holocentrus in the Pacific Ocean. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago called mahiK pduli, red. with white strijies; dorsal 

 dusky, a continuous stripe, same as from Honolulu. 



380. Holocentrus ruber (Forskal). Louisiades; East Indies; China; nut certainly known from the 



S.iutli Seas. 



381. Holocentrus praslin Laccpcde. Samoa; Ruikiu Is. 



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Fni. 211. — Butoccnlrus praslin Lac6p0de. 



Tliis species, known by its very dark lateral stripes, which seem bla<-k in spirits, is common at 

 but is not known from Hawaii. Life colors were noted as fnUows in various specimens: 



(1) From Apia. Deep red, very bright, paler below; 10 longitudinal streaks, narrow and 

 sharply defined, the four uppermost light crimson, the rest almost )jure white, with brownish edge; a 

 white stripe <lownward and backward from eye, a red one and a white one aljove it; spinous dorsal 



