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radiating from eye; under jaw pale smoky; body grayish black with irregular pale narrow cross-bars; 

 small black circular spots on sides, red ones ventrally; caudal black and whitish banded with scarlet; 

 ocellar spots coalescing in vertical series in outer (submarginal) white band; dorsal with two narrow 

 crimson lines — crimson pink spots — markings toward posterior end; pectoral thin l)rick-red; ventral 

 crimson with blackish blotch. 



(2) From Apia. Olive; body with 6 dark bars, irregular and broader than interspaces; posterior 

 lialf of head and first band and breast clear cinnamon-brown, the head anteriorly olive; iris scarlet; 

 scarlet and green dashes radiating from eye; lower jaw olive-brown; 2 darker shades across nape; some 

 scales on body darker than others; dorsal graj', red-edged; soft dorsal brown, the last rays transparent 

 orange; a broad pale yellow bar across b;iae of caudal, the fin with 2 black bars and finely crossed by 

 orange lines; caudal truncate; anal barred at base like body, the edge mottled scarlet, the last rays 

 translucent, tinged green and orange; ventral bright orange red washed with black; pectoral brown- 

 ish, scarlet at base; lower part of sides with some round brown spots. 



(3) From Apia. Greenish above, reddish below, with dark shade on each scale; 5 whitish olive 

 cross-bands, much narrower than interspaces, the one at base of caudal broadest; snout paler 

 olive; dorsal and anal colored like body, not dotted; caudal with 2 dark cross-bands; last rays of 

 dorsal and anal pinkish translucent; sides of breast and belly with dark brown spots. Caudal 

 truncate. 



(4) Specimen called lalafi pulepule. Apparently much in common with the preceding, but with 

 additional colors. Wholeshoulderregionfrom base of dorsal across opercleand base of pectoral tobreast 

 and including ventrals deep ferrugineous red, the ventrals very deep red; dorsal colored like body, but 

 with scarlet edge and two rows of scarlet spots on anterior soft rays; anal spotted with scarlet, yellmv ish 

 translucent behind, as is soft dorsal; some scarlet spots on yellowish band of anal, between two dark 

 spots; scarlet streaks radiating from eye; dark greenish olive, with five narrow pale olive cross bands; 

 the widest at base of caudal; caudal with two dark bands. 



1001. Cheilinus digrammus (Lacepede). Sugale; Lalafi. New Guinea; Louisiades; Fiji; Samoa; 



Palauls.; Shortland I. (Scale); East Indies. 

 We have eight specimens of this species from the coral reef at Pago Pago, where it is common. 

 Life colors of one specimen, greenish gray with weak salmon-brown scale-blotches; weak salmon 

 diffusion below; pink copper lines on upper head; on lower head purple-brown lines; lips olive-green, 

 also upper head; dorsal with pinkish margins; anal with almost crimson splashes; ventral with crimson 

 coloration at base; pectoral unmarked, thin saffron rays; caudal with blue-green rays, paling and 

 faintly reddish yellow at tips. 



1002. Cheilinus undulatus Riippell. Samoa; Tahiti; Fanning Is. ; New Guinea; Vavau; Paumotu 



Is.; Caroline Is.; Palau Is.: Oualan (as Cheilinus festiras); Tonga (as Cheilimis godeffroyi 

 Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1871, 666, pi. 66, young). 



This handsome and widely distributed fish was found only at Pago Pago, where we obtained two 

 large specimens. Life colors of one of these, olive-gray, a black area on each scale, these becoming 

 brownish reticulations on breast; streaks before and behind eye black; orange streaks on head below 

 eye, bluish streaks above. Vertical fins all checkered with black bars; tip of caudal bright pale yellow; 

 ventral pale gray. 



The other specimen was livid white under head, with salmon-yellow spots and curving linear 

 l)Iotches; salmon-yellow spots on lips; head above light umber with slaty bhie-gray lines; sides 

 greenish olive (grayish green?), with vertical blackish brown spots tapering to point above and below; 

 region below pectorals light-yellow greenish with fine purplish red lines; pectoral clear, with 

 greenish yellow tinge at base; ventral thin greenish; dorsal coarsely mottled brownish, with greenish 

 yellowish white spots; caudal similar with yellow margin; from eye two brown-black lines running 

 forward and back with small spot l)etween hinder two near eye. 



1003. Cheilinus unifasciatus Streets. Fanning Is. 



Cheilinus unifasciatus Streets, Bull. V. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 1877, 82, Fanning Is. 



This species is unknown to us. Dr. Streets regards it as very close to Chciliniiii rhodochrotin of 

 (ninther. 



1004. Cheilinus ceramensis Rleeker. Auciteum; East Indies. 



