342 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



1144. Chsetodon reticulatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Matagipulepule; Tifilifi a'an Samoa; Tahiti; 



Ulea; raumotu Is.; Rarotonga and Raiatea (Seale). 

 Cli;,iuiln,i ritiriilaliix Tiivier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 32, Tahiti, Ulea. 

 Clucluilni, ,;,n„nx CiiiilliLT, Flsche (Jer Sudses 40, Paumotu; not of Bloch nor of Bleeker. 



iCImli'ihiii l:,iiirnsus (jiioy & Gaimard, Voj'. Astrolabe, 1835; a handsome brown-colored species seen at Guam 



biu ni.i s<c\iri-d: •' bit ftt the finger when approached." 



This splendid species is rather rare about Samoa, only 12 specimens being taken at Apia and 



Pago Pago. It is quite different from Ch.rtodon collaris of the East Indies, with which it has been 



confounded by Giinther, who gives a good figure, but the colors of the fish are brighter than his plate 



would indicate. The scarlet jiatch on the anal is especially characteristic. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, black, dove-gray above and behind ocular band; spots on 

 scales bright yellow below, gray above; edge of ocular stripe golden; forehead and snout drab; lips 

 golden; dorsal drab, edged with golden, wjith a dark and white streak; caudal black, then drab, black, 

 yellow, black, then a drab edge; anal black, being scarlet behind, with 2 black stripes, a dull yellow- 

 one, the edge white; ventral and breast black, continuous with ocular band; pectoral colorless. 



1145. Chaetodon unimacuiatus Bloch. Tifilifi jndepule; Tifitifi samasama. Hawaii: Samoa; Tahiti; 



New Guinea (Macleay); Bonham I.; Fat^ (Seale); East Indies. 



Cha-lodon unimaculatus Bloch, Ichth.. taf. 201, 1787, Tahiti. Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 72, Tahiti. 

 ' GUnther, Fische der Sudsee, 37, Bonham I., Tahiti, Samoa. Giinther, Cat., in. 11, Amboina. 

 Chietudon sphenospilus Jenkin.s, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., .xi.\, 1899 (1901), 395, Honolulu. 



Bleeker, Atlas, Chfet., 45, tab. xiii, Java, Solor, Timor, Amboina, Ternate, Boro. 



This handsome species is widely diffused throughout the South Seas and to the East Indies and 

 Hawaii. We have 20 examples from Samoa. The single black spot on the side well characterizes the 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, clear bright light yellow, becoming bluish gray below; ocular 

 band broad, meeting below; faintly edged with gray; snout gray; golden edges to scales making faint 

 oblique yellow streaks on shoulder; black lateral spot, broadly surrounded by gray, with a wedge- 

 shaped downward extension of dusky gray; dorsal light bright yellow, a black bar across its posterior 

 part and across caudal peduncle and anal fin, where it is narrower, the band bordered before and 

 behind by gray, the posterior edge very narrow; caudal colorless; anal deep golden yellow, darker 

 than dorsal; ventral deep golden yellow; pectoral colorless. 



Another specimen was in life light golden above; gray beneath shoulders and front of sides, with 

 V-shaped vertical bars of deep yellow, the angle directed toward the tail; ocular band very broad 

 from front of dorsal, meeting across breast; snout and forehead gray; a large round black spot on 

 middle of side of back, surrounded by gray; dorsal and anal clear yellow; a dark bar posteriorly on 

 both, extending across caudal, edged on both sides with gray; posteriorly this is the margin of the 

 dorsal and anal fins, both with whitish edge; caudal grayish white at base behind bar; rest of fin like 

 pectoral, translucent with black dots; ventral golden yellow. 



Compared with Hawaiian specimens there is a tendency in these to form a larger spot, more 

 extensively produced into wedge-shaped process below. There is no other difference. ' 



Cluitodon unbnacululas differs strikingly from Oudodon ejjhippium and ulietennu in the teeth, which 

 are stronger, not flexible, not more than two series functional, those of the two halves of each jaw 

 converging toward median line. The horizontal series of enlarged scales on anterior part of sides are 

 less marked than the oblique series, but are distinguishable and usually continuous with the horizontal 

 series of smaller scales behind. The larger scales have margin unequally curved [Lepidochaiodon), 

 but this character seems to have little value. 



1146. Chsetodon trichrous Giinther. Tahiti. 



3(5, Tahiti; on a drawing. Jordan A- Snyder, Proc. U. :^. 



This species is known from an incorrect drawing made by Andrew Garrett, and pulilished by 

 Dr. Giinther, and from a specimen, also from Tahiti, taken by Mr. Henry P. Bowie. 



1147. Clisetodoii kleini Bloch. Yap; New Britain; East Indies. 



fluclodon kleini Bloch, Ichth., iv, 7, taf. 218, fig. 2. after Klein. GUnther, Cat., ii, 22, Amboina, Mauritius. Peters, 

 Berl. Hon. 1876, 832, New Britain. 



