310 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF B'ISHERIES. 



1005. Cheilinus ni^opinnatus Seale. Guam. 



cltfilinuii niflropinnatus Seale, BLshop Museum 1901, 80, Guam. 



1006. Cheilinus oxycephalus Bleeker. New Guinea (Macleay). 



1007. Cheilinus oxyrhynciius Bleeker. Palau Is. (Giinther); East Indies. 



1008. Cheilinus kittlitzi Cuvier & Valenciennes. Ulea. 



:v, 105, 1839, Ulea; on a drawing. 

 I drawing. 



1009. Cheilinus roseus Cuvier & Valenciennes. TJlea. 



CliciliiHis r..s, MS CiiviiT & Valenciennes. I. c., Ulea; on a drawing by Mertens. 



1010. Cheilinus bimaculatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Hawaii. 



THALLIURUS Swainson. 

 Dorsal spines 10, otherwise essentially as in Cheilinm. 



1011. Thalliums chlorurus (Bloch). Sugale gasufi. Samoa; Yap; Ponape; Tahiti; Tonga; Fiji; 



Palau Is.; New Hebrides; Paumotu Is.; East Indies. 

 This common and widely distributed species is abundant at Samoa. We have 4 examples from 

 Pago Pago and 25 from Apia. Life colors were noted in various specimens as follows: 



(1) From Pago Pago. Dark olive, scales anteriorly and below each with a round blackish-brown 

 spot; those posteriorly and on back each with a median grayish shade, each forming streaks along 

 rows of scales; a round dusky blotch behind tip of pectoral; another on same line behind it, with 

 traces of two others, the last at base of caudal; dorsal mottled like back, the edge scarlet; soft 

 dorsal translucent orange, deep scarlet at base, with a row of white dots; caudal dark orange, with 

 rows of white dots, and angular white vermiculations at base; anal dark brown, paler behind, with 

 many rows of white dots; ventral dark orange, profusely dotted with white; head with scarlet streaks 

 and dashes; jaws barred with brown. 



(2) From Apia. Mottled brown, very dark, not pale below; some dark spots on scales deep lirown; 

 head with scarlet spots and dashes, its lower parts blackish green; pale parts of dorsal, anal, and 

 caudal cherry-red with spots of whitish green or grayish blue; ventral very dark-brown red with gray 

 spots, small; pectoral plain reddish. 



(3) From Apia. Dark olive, with blackish brown streaks on head; blackish brown spots on 

 scales anteriorly and grayish spots on back and posterior parts; fins much mottled; anal and ventral 

 with small round whitish dots; dorsal edged with dull orange, the posterior rays translucent, tinged 

 with orange-red at base; caudal much mottled, olivaceous washed with orange-red at tip; anal dark 

 olive, duir orange at tip with many white spots; ventral similar, darker; pectoral colorless, yellow at 

 base; caudal truncate. 



(4) From Pago Pago. Complexly and irregularly mottled with greenish, brownish, and reddish 

 indications, most marked on dorsal, of three transverse bars; eye with green iris and red circumorbital 

 ring; under side in front of ventrals with bluish-white spots and cross-bars. Spines of dorsal blue green ; 

 at base of tail a small but distinct ocellus, with sky-blue pupil, then narrow black line, then yellow 

 going off unevenly into reddish; caudal greenish-blue web, whitish spines; small red cross spots on 

 web and longitudinal spots on rays. 



(5) From Apia. Olive with many darker spots and mottlings, a vague row of 4 small blackish 

 spots between pectoral and caudal, the first largest; head with brown streaks; dorsal yellowish and 

 brownish and olive, the last rays clear; caudal with 4 or 5 dark-brown bars; anal and ventral like 

 spinous dorsal, many spots but none stellate. 



(6) From Apia. Everywhere excessively mottled, olive, black, and reddish; radiating dark-bruwn 

 streaks about eye; last soft rays of dorsal translucent pink. 



FSETTDOCHEILINUS Bleeker. 



This genus is well defined, as shown by Professor Snyder, by the peculiar structure of its partly 

 divided cornea. The species are small and the deep-blue pigment in the fins persists in alcohol. 



1012. Pseudocheilinus octotseuia .lenkins. Hawaii. 



