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387. Holocentrus sammara (Forskal). Malau peapea. Hawaii; Tahiti; Samoa; Borabora; Pau- 



niotu Ls.; Solomon Is.; Guam; New Guinea; Thornton I.; Marquesas Is. (Seals); East Indies. 

 Labms amjulosns Lac(;pude, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ill, 430, pi. 22. tig. 1. 1803. 

 Holoccntrum chrintianum Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii. 219, 1828, Red Sea. 



Holocmtmm tahiticum Kner, Novara Fische, ill, 1869, f. 2, pi. 16, Tahiti. Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1864, 4.S2. Tahiti. 

 Halocentrmfmcostriatus Seale, Bishop Mus.. 1901, 69, Guam. 



nolocaitrus thornlonensis Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila. 1904, 231, Thornton I. (young i. 

 This handsome fish i.s very common on the reefs at Samoa, where about 100 examples were taken. 

 It is rare about Hawaii. 



The species varies considerably in the distinctness of the dark maroon lateral stripes, but the black 

 on the first dorsal is never absent. In the young it takes the form of an ocellus. Such a young 

 example is the type of Holocentrus thornlonensis. Life colors were noted as follows in various specimens: 

 (11 Siicrinicn fr. .in Ajiia. Silvery, with golden, red, and greenish reflections; back with four stripes 

 of (lark iiKiiii,,!! iv.l. 1 he second and third brightest; head dark red above, mostly silvery, with red 

 wash beh.w ; lij.^ Ili .^li color; opercle dark red above; fins pale red, the spinous dorsal broadly edged 

 with blooii red; i-aiidal with a maroon stripe in each lobe, anal and ventral also; no pale edging. 



(2) From Apia. Olive, lustrous purplish above, copi)ery silvery below;, each scale with a large 

 distinct coppery black spot, these forming about ten stripes; cheek whitish with black spots; head 

 wine-shaded on lips, snout, and opercle; preopercle white; dorsal maroon, whitish spots at base, tips 

 white; front of dorsal with large black, red-washed blotch; soft dorsal, anal, and caudal golden yellow, 

 with a long maroon stripe on anterior rays, covering most of caudal lobes; pectoral coppery reddish; 

 ventral white. 



• (3) Young specimen from Apia. Red, with a large black blotch on front of spinous dorsal, a dark 

 red stripe in each caudal lobe and on front of soft anal; a dark band across opercle. 



(4) From Apia. Silvery rose; brownish above with stripes of rosy maroon, all but one indistinct, 

 the bright one following course of lateral line; opercle dark maroon ; dark band across base of pectoral ; 

 front of dorsal with very large blotch of maroon black, fin otherwise flesh-color, tips whitish; .soft 

 dorsal yellciw, transparent behind, with maroon stripe in front; anal whitish with maroon stripe: 

 pei'tc.ral ami ventral nearly white; caudal pale orange, the lobes rosy maroon. 



388. Holocentrus opercularis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Tahiti; New Ireland; Samoa; Palauls.; 



Paumotu Is.; Guam. 



This strongly marked species is well figured liy Dr. Giinther. Two specimens were taken at Samoa. 



Life colors of one from Pago Pago, light red, each scale with a darker center and a silvery edge; 

 dark streaks along rows of sc-ales; head red; opercle blood red; iris very red; first dorsal jet black, 

 with a row of white spots at base and tip; second dorsal, anal, and caudal red, with a darker bar in 

 front and a shade of orange behinil; pectoral and ventral pink; pectoral red at base; a red shade down 

 and back from eye. Mouth large; chin prominent; anal spine long; body slender. 



Family LAMPRID.€. 

 LAMFRIS RetziQs. 



389. Lampris reg-ia (Bonnaterre). Hawaii; all warm seas. 



The name Zeus regius of Bonnaterre and that of Zeus guttatus of Briinnich, both 1788, antedate 

 Zeus luna of Gmelin (1789). We do not know which of these first has actual priority, but regius is a 

 name preferable to the commonplace and overworked specific name guttnlus. It is true, however, that 

 the name gnttdtns has lieen more generally used than that of regius, and the account given by Briinnich 

 is the best found in any early author. Following the arbitrary rule which we have adopted, the name 

 regius on page 72 in Bonnaterre's work antedates guUatus ou page 398 in that of Briinnich. 



Family ZEID.i. 

 STETHOPRISTIS Gilbert, 



390. Stethopristis eos (Hlbert. Deep seas of Hawaii. 



CYTTOMIMUS Gill. 



391. Cyttomimus stelg-is (!;ill)ert. Deep seas of Hawaii. 



