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ed^ed with bluish; pectoral dusky yellow, edged before with bluish; lips reddish, the upper dark; 

 side of Ijelly with three pale stripes. 



1065. Callyodou oviceps (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Fugauli. Tahiti; Samoa. 

 Scarus oviceps, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poi,ss., xiv. 244, Tahiti. 

 Pseudoscarus oriceps, Gilnther, Cat., iv, 225; copied from Valenciennes. 



Head 3.10 to end of vertebrse; depth 3.10; eye 6.75 in head; dorsal ix, 10; anal in, 8; scales 2-24-(i; 

 three rows on cheek, the lower row of three scales on lower limb of preopercle. 



Body oblonpr, compressed, the anterior of head broadly rounded, the snout in front of eye slightly 

 gibbous; depth of caudal peduncle 2.10 in head; no posterior canines; lips broad, covering teeth; six 

 scales in front of dorsal; longest ray of dorsal 2.75 in head; base of anal 1.14, 1.95 in base of dorsal, its 

 longest ray 3.10 in head; pectoral 1.30 in head; ventral 1.90; caudal lunate 1.18. 



Life colors of an immature example from Apia, light olive, golden on sides of head; below a dark 

 brown diffuse band from snout through eye to gill-opening; two diffuse yellowish shades from spinous 

 dorsal downward, a darker area between; fins dull pinkish olive, the caudal darker above and below; 

 the ventral almost white. 



An adult example, also from Apia, was dusky mottled olive, almost black on back anteriorly; a 

 dull golden area bounding the black, from cheek to end of pectoral, then obliquely upward; another 

 yellow l)lotch on back behind it; a whitish stripe below eye bounding the yellow; dorsal reddish 

 brown with a black edge which fades behind; caudal lunate, dull orange brown; anal brownish red, 

 rather bright, paler at base; ventral colorless; pectoral colorless, blackish above toward tip; lips 

 reddish brown; chin and below clear brown, the belly whitish. Brighter colored than the preceding 

 specimen. 



A specimen from Pago Pago was slaty blackish above; broad pale greenish-yellow blotch below 

 eye and running up to dorsum about even with tip of pectoral when laid back; below whitish; ven- 

 trals and anal thin salmon scarlet; dorsal with blackish margin and base, and broad median, rather 

 dark, reddish band; pectoral dark near anterior margin, then yellowish, then uncolored. 



Color in spirits brownish, darker above, a yellowish band from middle of dorsal fin obliquely 

 down to point of pectorals, a similar but much smaller and less distinct band down from middle of 

 soft dorsal; upper part of head dusky with bluish wash distinctly separated from yellowish lower half 

 of head by a dark line from snout through lower part of eye to posterior margin of opercles; tip of the 

 lips yellowish; dorsal brownish with yellowish blotches, the posterior tip of fin being yellowish; anal, 

 pectoral, and ventral yellowish, unmarked. Some specimens show a slight dusky wash on pectoral; 

 caudal grayish; iris golden; teeth white. 



Seven specimens from Apia and 5 from Pago Pago. The one described is 8.55 inches long, and 

 was obtained at Apia. The species is rather common at Samoa. 



1066. Callyodon zonularis Jordan & Seale, new species. Fugamea. Samoa. 



Head 3 in length; depth 3; eye 6.75 in head; snout 2.10; interorbital 2.85; dorsal i.\, 10; anal ni, ii; 

 scales 2-24-6, three rows on cheek, the lower row of four scales, covering the lower limb of 

 preopercle. 



Body oblong, compressed; snout gibbous; caudal peduncle thick and strong, its depth equal to 

 snout; no canines; lips covering more than two-thirds of upper teeth; gill-rakers small, numerous; 

 opercle and preopercle entire; six scales in front of dorsal; origin of dorsal over posterior margin of 

 opercle; longest dorsal spine 3.20 in head, the longest ray 2.50; base of anal 1.50, 2.30 in base of dorsal, 

 its longest ray 3 in head; pectoral 1.20; ventral 1.98, its origin on line with middle of base of 

 pectoral ; caudal square. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, olive yellow, clear golden in a bar behind pectoral; back 

 with four dusky crossbars overlying yellow; a blackish shade on side of head across eye; breast and 

 lips creamy reddish; fins all yellow, shaded like neighboring parts of body, the pectoral clear yellow; 

 traces of pale golden streaks along side of belly; also a diffuse yellow lateral stripe. 



A specimen from Pago Pago had a pale greenish yellow suffusion over bod)'; four indistinctly 

 marked smoky bands from dorsum half way down sides, fading ventrally; belly yellowish whitish, 

 also ventral; cheeks rather yellow; lips saffron; black bar behind eye; caudal reddish saffron. 



Color in spirits grayish white, with 5 wide oblique bands of black which extend over back and 

 to about the median line of sides, the bands of greater width than the interspaces, the first at origin 



