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ALECTIS Rafinesque. 



454. Alectis ciliaris (Bloch). Hawaii; Samoa; New Ireland (Peters) ; Tahiti; Palau Is. ; Kingsniill 



I.; New (niinea; Solomon Is. 

 Of this widely distributed species, we have several small specimens from Apia. 



TRACHINOTUS Lacepede. 



455. Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus). Alalafulu. Samoa; New Hebrides; New Guinea (Macleay ). 

 Of this widely diffused species, we have three examples from Apia, one very large, nearly 2 feet 



in length. Life colors of one of these specimens gray, back tinged with creamy bronze; dorsal dark, 

 the lobe largely covered with creamy bronze; ventral, anal, belly, and lips still more orange; tail 

 lilack. Specimen from Pago Pago, lobes of dorsal, anal, and caudal black, w-ashed with creamy 

 iirange; ventral and anal lobe largely orange. 



456. Trachinotus bailloni Lacepede. Samoa (Giinther); New Hebrides; Tahiti; New Britain 



(Peters I; New Guinea (Macleay). 

 This species, recorded from Samoa with the preceding, was not taken by us. 



457. Traclxinotus russelli Cuvier & Valenciennes. New Guinea; East Indies. 

 Trachynonis coppingeri Giinther, Zool. .\lert, 1,s,mi, 29, Percy I. i New Guinea), in Cloudy Bay. 



Family COKYPH/HNID^. 

 CORYPHaiNA Linnaeus. 



458. Coryphsena hippurus Linnu'us. Hawaii; warm seas. 



459. Coryphsena equisetis Linn;ius. Between Tahiti and Hawaii; warm seas. 



Family BR.WHD^. 

 TARACTES Lowe. 



460. Taractes orcini (Cuvier & Valenciennes). South seas; Indian Ocean. 



COLLYBUS Snyder. 



461. Collybus drachma Snyder. Off Hawaii. 



Family PSENH)^. 

 PSENES Cuvier. 



463. Pseues javanicus Cuvier <.t ValencJeiim-s. (jnam; East Indies. 

 {Pseiu's yiiciMi-nsis (_;unther.) 



CUBICEPS Lowe. 



463. Cubiceps pauciradiatus Giintlier. Misol. 



Ciihicepspauciradiatus Gi'inther, Ann. Miig. Nat. Hist. 1872, iZi. Misol. Regan, .\nn. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1902, 123. 



ARIOMMA Jordan & Evermann. 



464. Ariomma lurida Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



465. Ariomma evermauni Jordan & Snvder. Hawaii. 



