THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 335 



Family AXTir.0MlI).4-;. 

 4NTIG0NIA Lowe. 



1120. Antigonia steindachneri Jordan i"i E-rnii:uiii. Hawaii; .Tapan. 



1121. Antigonia eos (;ill>ert. Hawaii. 



Family EFHIPPID.i. 

 EPHIPPUS Cuvier. 



£;)/i(>/)!(S Cuvier, Regne Annual, ed. 1, 335, 1817 (unjug). 

 Scatophagus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vu, 136 (argus). 



Cacodo.riis Cantor, Malay. Fish., 163, 1850 {argus: substitute for Scritoiihagnn on account of the 

 earlier genus Scatophaga). 



1122. Ephippus arg-us (Gmelin). New Guinea (Madeay); New-Britain (Peters, Berl. Mon., 



1123. Ephippus multifasciatus (Richardson). New Guinea; East Indies. 

 Scatophwju.-i multi/Mciatus AUej-ne li Jlacleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. W., 1SS3. 277. New Guinea. 



DBEPANE Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Drepatte Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 129, 1831 (punctata). 



Harporhinis Cantor, Malay. Fish., 162, 1850 (punctata); substitute for Dn-pane, there being 



genera of prior date, Drepana, Drepanis, Drepanus, and Drepania. 

 CnjptosmiUa Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1867, 401 (luna). 



1124. Drepane punctata (Gmelin) . Samoa (Giinther); New Ireland (Peters); East Indies. 



PLATAX Cuvier. 



1125. Platax orbicularis (Forskal). Pe'apehi tdi. Samoa; Tahiti; Papua: Fiji; Xew Ireland; 



Shortlandl. (Seale); East Indies. 

 Cluelo'loii ■■rliiriilarig ForskU, Descr. Anim., 59, 1775. Red Sea. 

 Plnltt: << ■.-: :lMr, Fischeder Siidsee, 140, Tahiti. Klunzlnger, Fische Rothen Meeres, 118, Red Sea; 



»iii, 1 the two species. 



Cfcrt"'/ l; h, lohth., 67, taf. 199, fig. 2, 1787, East Indies. 



Plala.r 1 . l;|. k. r, .itlas. Chaet., 74, tab. xvii, tig. 1, tab. .win, figs. 2 and 3, .^^umatra, New Guinea, and all 



other E:<M Indian islands. Peters, Berl. Mon., 1876, 836, New Ireland. 

 Chxtodon ixntacanthiis L&cip&de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv,4.t4, 471, tab. 11, fig. 2. 1S03. Pacific Ocean. 

 Platax albipundatux Ruppell, Atlas, 69, taf. IS, lig. 4, 1.S2.S, Red Sea. 

 Platax chrenhrriii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 221, 1831, Red Sea. 

 Platax rjuUulaiiis Cnvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 227, pi. 186, fig. 1,1831, He dc France. 

 This fish, widely distributed throughout the East Indies, is rather common ahmit Samoa. We 

 have three specimens taken in the seine at Pago Pago and two from Apia. 



The species is distinguished from the next by the fact that the middle cusp of each tooth is longer 

 than the others. The scales are considerably larger than in Platai- leira, and the anterior profile is a 

 little less vertical. The color is similar in the two species, the cross-bands disappearing with age. 



A specimen from Apia was olive-gray, with blackish on the fins; no bright colors. A young 

 example from Pago Pago was blackish in life, with a diffused blackish ocular band; breast soiled 

 yellowish; l)ase of pectoral with a large black spot; caudal abruptly whitish; ventral black; dorsal v, 37; 

 scales 63. 



1126. Platax teira (Forskal). Palau Is; New Guinea; East Indies. 



Chstmlon teira ForskU, Descr. Anim., 60, 177.5, Red Sea. 



PUUax teira, Giinther, Fische derSudsee, 141, 1876, Palau Is. Bleeker, Atlas, Chaet., 73, tab. xvii. fig. 2, tab. xx. fig, 1: 



Sumatra, New Guinea, Borneo, and all the Fast Indian islands. Klunzlnger, Fische Roth. Meeres, 119. Red Sea. 



Jordan & Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., x.w. 1903, .526. Formosa. EiuUiu Is., Tokyo, Kagoshima, Benin Is., 



Kezen. 

 ChxtodoH arthriticus Bell, Philos. Trans. 793. s, nl.ll, Sumatra. 



