348 BULLETIN OF THK BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



lower parts livid gray; stripes of body extemlii];; hack un dorsal above them, in paler yellow and pur- 

 plish blue; upper part of fin of deep orange witli two i>ale-blue stripes with dark-blue edge; second 

 dorsal almost black-orange, washed with dark; caudal light clear yellow, with a few dark specks; anal 

 with many stripes of steel-blue and orange, the margin black-blue; ventral golden-yellow, edged 

 anteriorly with dusky; pectoral colorless; a median blue streak on forehead; serrated edge of pre- 

 opercle blue;' preopercular spine blue. 



1168. Holacanthus bicolor Bloch. Ulapua. Samoa; Hawaii ((ninthcr); Solomnn I?.; New 



Guinea; East Indies. 

 (Juetodon bicidiir Blocli, Ichth., taf. 206. Indies; plate from this species; description confused witli tlie American 



species, 11. tnculor. 

 J-Iulacunlhus hicolm; Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 168, 1831, East Indie<. Gunther. Fischc derSudsec, 



.51, taf. 39, tig.'E, Samoa, Solomon Is., Hawaii. Bleeker, Atlas, Chaet., 61, tab.vii, fig. 3, Sumatra, Floras, Sol..r, 



Ternate, Ceram, .\mboina, Saparua, Banda, Aru, New Guinea. 



This handsome species is moderately common about the coral reefs of Samoa. We did not find 

 it at Hawaii, and it is possible that Garrett's sketch on which the Hawaiian record rests was made at 

 Tahiti. The coloration of this species is almost exactly that of the West Indian "lot-k beauty," 

 Holacanthus tricolor, but the form of the body and fins is different. 



Four specimens were taken at Apia, and 8 at Pago Pago. Life colors of one from Pago Pago, 

 anteriorly brilliant yellow, slightly brownish tinged above pectoral, bordered behind by clear yellow 

 which covers throat, breast, pectoral, and ventral; body posteriorly lustrous blue-black, the color 

 including anal and most of dorsal; caudal and end of caudal peduncle brilliant yellow; a broad, blue- 

 black bar connecting eyes above, this bar fading below; an orange spot above gill-opening; edge of 

 opercle orange; lower lip slightly bluish; four orange spots below it, the anterior largest; spine of 

 preopercle grayish l)lue. 



1169. Holacanthus flavissimus Cuvier it Valenciennes. Leija; Aimeo. U lea; Samoa; Fiji; Tahiti; 



New Hebrides; Harvey Is. ; Kingsmill I.; Raiatea. 

 iro;aca)i(ftus;iamstmMS Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 197, 1831, Ulea. 



Holacanthus luteolus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 197, 1831, Tahiti; on a drawing by Parkinson. 

 Holacanthus cyanotis Gunther, Cat., ii, 517, 1860, Aneiteum. Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, 52, taf. 40, fig. a. New 



Hebrides, Kingsmill, Tahiti, Harvey, Samoa, Fiji. 

 Holacantlius monophthalmus Kner, Sitz. .\k. Wiss. Wien 1867, 711, fig. 2, Raiatea, young. Kner, op. cii., 1868, 16, 



Savay. 

 Holacanthus ocularis Peters, Berl. Mon. 1,868 147, South Seas. 



Five specimens from Apia, 12 from Pago Pago. This beautiful species is rather common about the 

 coral reefs of Samoa. The first good account of it is that of Dr. Gunther, under the name of Holacan- 

 thus cyanotis. Holacanthus Jiai'issimus is evidently the same, the blue markings on the head being 

 inconspicuous in faded specimens. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, clear deep yellow, citron-yellow below, fins all the same; 

 dorsal, anal, and caudal with very narrow bright blue edge; a deep blue ring around orange eye; a 

 deep violet-blue bar on opercle with an orange edge behind; preopercular spines and two bars across 

 chin slaty blue; two slaty spots on breast; upper lip slaty. Gill membranes scarcely joined to isthmus. 



1170. Holacantlius bispinosus Giinther. Tu'a'u pulepule muinu. Hawaii ^Gunther); Samoa; 



Tahiti; New Helirides; .•Vmboina. 

 H<,hii;ml/iiis l)isiiinosus Gunther, Fische der Sudsee, 51, pi. 56, fig. c, Tahiti, New Hebrides, Hawaii. Bleeket, 

 .\tlas, Cha>t., 60, tab. vi, fig. 1, Amboina. 



This very small and neatly colored species resembles a Pomacentrus. It is rare about the reefs at 

 Tutuila, but two specimens being taken at Pago Pago. It was not found by us at Hawaii. The plate 

 in the Fishes of Hawaii is taken from a specimen froin Pago Pago. 



Life colors, deep orange- or copper-red, clearer below; the head, back, and vertical fins blue-black, 

 the dark color forming about 18 narrow dark cross streaks on side as wide as the ground color; breast 

 and belly orange; sides of head dull orange, the lips and spines violet; lower lip very bright blue; anal 

 and dorsal edged with blue; caudal with a broader blue stripe inside the margin; pectoral yellow, 

 dusky at base; ventral orange, edged with blackish. 



1171. Holacanthus iiavarchus Cuvier & Valenciennes. New fniiuea (Macleay); Fast Indies. 



