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blood red with an interrupted row of wliitish spots and a wliitisli tip; other fins clear red, caudal witli 

 a blood red edge, as also a stripe along fourth anal spine; ventral similarly striped; pectoral i>inkisli. 



(2) From Apia. Whitish, olive shaded; (I stripesof brownish black, unequal in width and iliplh 

 of color, separated by white and grayish and pinkish .stripes, the stripe on level of eye brou.l an. I 



white, the two black stripe.s above it confluent behind as also the two below it; the white strijir ir 



axil of anal to axil of pectoral also broad; opercle reddish black; lower part of head and brca.^-t soil. .1 

 gray uitli l.la.'kish stripes; dorsal grayish white with blackish median band; soft dorsal light yellow, 

 eiljr,.,! I.,. I,, I,, u itii .lark maroon; caudal light clear yellow, edged above and below with maroon black; 

 anal liL'lit.T y.llnw, with darker anterior stripe and a l)lack maroon blotch at base; a maroon black 

 bar lielow soft dorsal made of two coaicsteiit blaik stripes; ventral yellow, edged with maroon ami 

 white; pectoral reddish, the axil blackish. 



(3) From Pago Pago. Very dark M 1 r.-.l. with whitish pink stripes; dorsal white, w'ith median 



black stripe; second .l.irsal yell. .wish, with re.l anterior margin and blackish blotch at base; caudal 

 yellow w-ith maroon stripes; anal yellow ish with a black stripe and a spot at base; ventral yellowish, 

 ■with white and black stripe. 



(4) From Apia. Deep lusirniis .■.ipiii-ry red, paler below, the dark alternating with pale stripes, 

 the red very deep and bronze >liail..l al".ve, growing paler and more diffuse below; about 7 streaks 

 distinct; head blackish fre.kleil bi.ijiz.- dimsal dark blood red, mesially pale and pale at tips; soft 

 dorsal, anal, and caudal golden, with maroon stripe anteriorly narrow on soft dorsal; ventral similar 

 golden and maroon; breast soiled mottled brown and whitish; pectoral pale reddish brown. 



Iloloccntrits ruber differs from this species chiefly in the plain colors, red striped with deeper red. 

 Probably Holocentnis prnsHn is an "ontogenetic species" representing //. ruber on the coral reefs, and 

 differing mainly in the much heightened coloration. 



382. Holocentrus ensifer Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii; Mangareva (Seale). 



383. Holocentrus bowiei .Ionian & Snyder. Tahiti. 



384. Holocentrus microstomus (Ttinther. Samoa; Guam; Tonga; Hawaii; Kingsmill I.; Panmotu 



Is.; Harvey Is.; Tahiti; Tubuai; Raiatea an.l l;an>loii-a i Scale). 

 This species, well distinguished by its silvery Ixuly sDipiii with dark, and by the dark area on 

 the front of its spinous dorsal, is rather common about Sam. .a, \s here about 12 examples w'ere taken. 

 It is not rare about Honolulu. From Holocentrus mmniura, which has somewhat the same coloration, 

 it is known by the deeper body and smaller mouth. This species and the next, intermediate between 

 Holocentrus and Flammeo, render the latter genus difficult of definition. We therefore place all the 

 Pacific species in lltihm ntms. 



385. Holocentrus scythrops Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii; Laysan; East Indies. 

 {Holucentrtim arf/rntcum Bk-uker & Stuindaehner, not of Quoy & Gaimarcl.) 



This species is rather rare about Haw aii. It was not seen at Samoa. It has been once or twice 

 described as Holocentrum argenteum, but the true argentetim, as Klunzinger has shown, is a different 

 species [lacteoguttatus] 



386. Holocentrus Isevis (ninther. Samoa; L.iuisiades; Solomon Is.; Xew Britain; Xew Giunea: 



Amboina. 



HolocaUrum yuldiei Ma.c\ea.y, Proc. Linn. Sue N'. S. W. 1S\;. :«2. New Guinea. 



Holocentrum Iseve Giinther, Cat., i. 47. Louisiades, Guadalcanar, Amboyna. GunthcT, Fische der Sudsec. 101, taf. 



65, flg. B. 

 Holocentrum norse-brU.tanis'DeWn. Tp" I. inn -... x s.w. I.SSI, 447. New Britain; young. 

 Holocentrus acliromopterua'Foyiler. Vy« \- '- n ~ i I'hilii. 1904, 'JSij, Samoa. 

 J3b!ocent™m<70idietMacIeay, Proc. I.I h'l - ■■ \ - \\ , vii, 1.3S3. 3.i2. New Guinea. 

 This species is rather common ali.nit llie reels ul' Samoa, whereabout 20 examples were taken. It 

 resembles H. samnuira, but tin' I.. i.l\ i- -licper and there is never any black on the spinous dorsal. 



Life colors of a specimen lioni I'a-o I'ago, the stripes less regular and fewer than in H. sam- 

 mara, distinctly shown, the pale stripe un lateral line being dull red, dorsal paler, deep red between first 

 and second spines, the white band much broader and more diffuse; caudal almost plain; darker red on 

 edge of second dorsal and caudal, much deeper on anal; ventral paler red than in other; ventral and 

 anal spines red. 



