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Life colors of a specimen from Apia called mailajVu, a faint pinkish band from pectoral back; head 

 olive; lips flesh color; dorsal dull orange mottled with gray; caudal dull orange; anal reddish; ventral 

 pale-yellowish tinged; pectoral faintly orange; no lateral spot. 



Another specimen from Apia, called magauli, was light green, no spot; axil black; head dark; 

 lips and gums scarlet; dorsal light bright red; caudal dirty yellow; 2>fctoral bright yellow, orange 

 above; anal dull orange; ventral gray, black at tip. 



696. Lethrinus harak ( Forskal ) . Mala'de'ele. Samoa; New Britain; New Hanover (Peters); Fah' 



in the New Hebrides (Seale). 

 Of this species 2 large specimens were taken at Apia. Life colors of one called mata 'lie'ele, dull 

 olive green; fins all brick red; inside of mouth scarlet. A black lateral spot on molar teeth. 



697. Lethrinus bonhamensis Giinther. Samoa; Bonham I.; Philippines. 

 Lethrinus bcmliammsis Gunther. Fische der Sudsee, 65, taf. 46, Bonham I. 



A single large specimen corresponding to Giinther's figure was taken at .\pia. It i;; near Lethrinus ^ 

 harak; but is apparently distinct. We have also examined specimens of the same species in the U. S. 

 National Museum, collected on Negros Island in the Philippines by Prof. Bashford Dean. 



698. Lethrinus papuensis Alleyne & Macleay. New Guinea. 



699. Lethrinus amboinensis Bleeker. Samoa; Palau Is. (Giinther); East Indies. 

 Of this species we have 1 specimen from Apia. 



700. Lethrinus erythropterus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Ulea. 



701. Lethrinus chrysostomus Richardson. New Guinea (Alleyne & Macleay ); Australia. 



702. Lethrinus nebulosus (Forskil). Fiji (Gunther); East Indies. 



703. Lethrinus mahsena (Forskal). Samoa; Fiji; Palau Is.; Paumotu Is.; Waigiu; Mangareva 



(Seale). 



[Lethrinus hypselopterons Bleeker. i 

 Of this species we have 1 large example from Apia, corresponding to Gunther's figure, and 

 almost equally well to Bleeker's plate of Lethrinus hypseloplerus. 



704. Lethrinus mahsenoides Bleeker. New Guinea (Ramsay & Ogilby); East Indies. 



705. Lethrinus alboguttatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Bonin Is. 



706. Lethrinus laticaudus Alleyne & Macleay. New Guinea. 



L.ilirinus lalicauilus .\lli-yne & Mafleay. Proc. Linn. Soe. N. S. W. 1876, 276, Percy I. i New Guinea i. 



707. Lethrinus moensi Bleeker. Tahiti; Tonga; Fiji; Paumotu Is.; Harvey Is.; New Guinea; 



Palau Is. ; Louisiades; Marquesas Is. (Seale); East Indies. 



708. Lethrinus ornatus Bleeker. New Guinea (Macleay) ; East Indies. 



709. Lethrinus leutj anus Lacepede. New Guinea (Macleay); Fat6 (Seale); East Indies. 



710. Lethrinus hsematopterus Bleeker. Fiji (Giinther); New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



711. Lethrinus erythracanthus Cuvier A Valenciennes. Luganor; Mortlock Is. ; Carolines. 



712. Lethrinus sordidus Cuvier & Valenciennes. New Guinea. 



713. Lethrinus waigiensis Cuvier & Valenciennes. Waigiu. 



714. Lethrinus xanthopterus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Ulea, Caroline Islands. 



715. Lethrinus aurolineatus Macleay. New Guinea. 



LETHRINELLA Fowler. 



This genus is distinguished from Lttlirinns by the elongate pike-like snout ami jaws. 

 716. Lethrinella miniata (Forster). Filoa 'ara. Samoa; Tahiti; Louisiades; Marcus I.; New 



Britain; East Indi 



