THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 'J I I 



776. Mulloides flammeus Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii; Kaiati-a ami Tahiti (Seale: peiliaps 



tli»' yniHifrof .\f.]tlhic,,:ri). 



777. Mulloides pflugeri Steindachner. Hawaii. 



778. Mulloides zeylonicus (Cuvier A Valencienneti). New Guinea (Bleeker); Ceylon. 



Family TOX()TII).€. 

 TOXOTES Cuvier. 



779. Toxotes jacalatrix (Pallas). New Guinea ( ilacleay ); Fate, New Hebrides (Seale); East 



Indies. 



Family SILL.VCIMD.-E. 



SILLAGO Cuvier. 



780. Sillago sihama (ForskaU. Admiralty Is. (Gunther); Bougainville Is. (Peters, Berl. Mon. 



IsVii, y36); East Indies. 



781. Sillago ciliata Cuvier & Valenciennes. Percy I.; New Guinea ( Macleay) ; Australia. 



782. Sillago insularis Castelnau. New Caledonia. 



Sillago ciliata or ijistilaris Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict. 1S73. 113. New Caledonia. 



783. Sillago gracilis ^lacleay. New Guinea. 



Sillagu i/mcilis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Scic. N. S. W. 18S4. 2T9. Hall Sound. 



Family MALAC.\.\THll).4i. 



MALACANTHTJS Cuvier. 



784. Malacanthus parvipinnis (Vaillant & Sauvage). Hawaii. 



OCEANOPS Jordan & Seale, new genus. 

 ('>c(iin(ijis Jordan c^ Seale, new genus of Malacanilddx i M. taloeiUatus Lacepede). 



785. Oceanops latovittata (Lac^pMe). Gatasami. Samoa; Palau Is.; Papua; East Indies. (PI. 



.w.xi.x.) 



This singularly beautiful fish is rather rare at Samoa. Two large specimens were taken at Pago 

 Pago. The large size and brilliant blue coloration distinguish this species, in a very marked manner, 

 from its dull gray-colored congeners. It has also a much longer, pike-like snout, thus unlike Mala- 

 canthus plumieri a.nd parvipinnis. It may be held asthe type of a distinct subgenus or genus — Oceanops — 

 this appellation being a translation of the native name. 



Lite colors of a specimen from Pago Pago called gatasami (eye of the sea), intense violet blue; 

 back black, with the blue reduced to streaks; jet black lateral band; belly abruptly white; dusky 

 across base of pectoral; dorsal dusky at base, abruptly grayish above; caudal black, with a white 

 square, bluish white stripe above, upper angle brown; anal whitish; ventral whitish; pectoral blue. 



Family PSEUDOCHROMID^. 



PSEUDOCHKOMIS Mnller & Troschel. 



786. Pseudocliromis fuscus Muller & Troschel. Solomon Is.; Yajil.; Palau Is.; East Indies. 



PSEUDOGKAMMA Bleeker. 



787. Pseudogramma polyacanthus (Blcekeri. Tahiti: Fiji; .Marcus I.; Raiatea, East Indies. 

 rseudocliromis polyacaiUlius Bleeker, Ternate. vii. 37.5, 1866. Ternate. Kncr. Snz. Ak. Wis."!. Wien 1867. 717. Fiji 



Guntlier, Fische der Sudsee, 159, taf. 98, fig. A, Tahili. Raiatea. Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 623 

 Tahiti. 

 Pseudogramma polyacantlius, Bryan & Herre. Bishop Museum, vol. ii, no. 1. 1903, 139, Marcus I. 



