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light vitriol blue; pectoral with a yellowish green crossbar at base, then dusky green, black on pos- 

 terior edge with a vertical median band of vivid clear blue; ventral blue black. Another was, in life, 

 green, rather than blue; dorsal and anal yellowish green. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, dorsal blue-green growing yellowish green at margin; 

 anal and caudal similar; body purplish green with dark pinkish maroon and light olivaceous scale 

 markings. 



994. Gomphosus sandwichensis (iunther. Hawaii. 



CIBBHILABBITS Schlegel. 



995. Cirrhilabrusjordani Snyder. Hawaii. 



996. Cirrhilabrus solorensis Bleeker. New Guinea (Macleay). 



CHEILINUS Lac^pede. 



997. Cheilinus trilobatus Lacepcde. Sugale matuiuaiitu; Lalafi. Samoa; Tahiti; New Guinea; 



Ladrones; Guam; Fiji; New Hebrides; Kingsmill I.; How land I.; Ponape; Futuna; Hawaii 

 (Quoy & Gaimard — as Cheilinus sinuosus, Cheilinits polygramm'is Cuvier & Valenciennes, 

 and Cheilinus maculusus Cuvier & Valenciennes) ; East Indies. 

 This wide-spread species is very abundant about Samoa. We have 26 specimens from Apia, and 



9 from Pago Pago. Quoy & Gaimard record it from Hawaii, but no subsequent collector has seen it 



there. Life colors were noted in various specimens as follows: 



(1) From Apia. Olive-gray; a series of greenish blue cross-streaks, very numerous and well- 

 defined; pale cherry-red cross-shades between them; head with radiating streaks and spots of crimson; 

 chin dull, blunt; dorsal light olive with cherry-red edge and intramarginal streak; soft rays mostly 

 colorless; a little dusky spot at base; caudal dusky, edged all around with pale, the tip and edge 

 mostly red; anal olive with green rays, and two red marginal; ventral with blue rays, an olive blotch, 

 and a pink edge; pectoral yellow olive; dark olive at base. 



(2) From Apia. Blackish green; a bright orange-red vertical stripe on each scale, these faint or 

 obsolete posteriorly; head with many bright scarlet stripes and dashes; spinous dorsal olive-green 

 with two scarlet stripes and about four diffuse cross-shades; soft dorsal clear pinkish orange, the rays 

 yellow; no bars or spots; anal dark olive and pinkish orange in streaks, paler behind; no spots; caudal 

 dark olive-green washed with scarlet at tip, yellow-olive between; ventrals pink orange, the rays dark 

 olive-green; pectoral light yellowish olive; throat livid dusky blue; breast coppery green; caudal 

 rounded. 



(3) From Apia. Marbled olive-green with four diffuse blackish bars; each scale with a brown 

 vertical streak; head with curved and vertical streaks and bars; spinous dorsal mottled orange, green 

 and brown, soft translucent pink; anal similar, its edge broadly translucent pink; pectoral fleshy red; 

 ventral olive and reddish barred. 



(4) From Pago Pago. Dark olive-greenish with pinkish and greenish vertical linear scale spots; 

 head richer dark green with pink linear and spotty markings; pectorals thin, yellowish; ventral with 

 green rays and pink interspaces; anal with pink submarginal line and anterior half with second pink 

 line; general color greenish and bluish; caudal dark bluish; green at base, paler at tip; small round 

 jet-black spot before base of caudal. 



998. Cheilinus hexag:oiiatus Giinther. Hawaii; Johnston I. 

 I (■hrilinus zonurus Jenkins.} 



999. Cheilinus pulchellus Sauvage. Fiji. 

 fl,fili,ius],i,kltcllusiinnvage. Bull. Sci. Philom., 1880, 14 (reprint), Fiji. 



1000. Cheilinus fasciatus (Bloch). Lalaji pulepule. Samoa; Guam; Solomon I.; Palaul.; New 



<;uinea; Kingsmill I.; Vavau; Ponape; Fat^; Shortland I. and Earotonga ( Scale) ; East Indies. 



This species has a wide range extending from the Eed Sea to the islands of the Pacific. It is very 

 common about Samoa; we have 50 specimens from Pago Pago and 7 from Apia. Life colors were 

 noted in various specimens as follows; 



(1 ) From Pago Pago. Below eye thin brick-red extending, somewhat smoky, over dorsum just in 

 frunt of dorsal fin; breast region vermilion; upper head very smoky greenish with short reddish lines 



