360 Hl'LLETKN OF THE BUREAU OV FISHERIES. 



1230. Siganus fuscesceus ( Houttiiyn). Palau Is.; Howland I. (Giinther); Marcus I. I Bryan & 



Herre) ; Japan. 



n;,,""-"'"''"'^^' ''inirr, li'-ii.' Animal. 



r, , ■ !i I II. Mem de Haerl., x.x, 333, Nagasaki. 



An:,' -l.h-gel. 



This -pi , ;. -, rli:n:h i,M-ii. ..f southern Japan, is recorded from the South Seas, Imt was not found 

 by us. 



1231. Siganus argenteus (tiuoy A Gainiard). (iuani. 

 Ami.lmraiilliiix nr[ienleiif Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zoo!., 3CS, 1824, Guam. 

 Tiiilliis iininitm Giinther, Fisehe der Siidsee, 90, locality unknown. 



1232. Siganus canaliculatus (Park). Vanicolo; New Britain; East Indies. 

 CliH-todon canaliculatus Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soc, ni, 1797, 473, Sumatra. 



Amphacantlms margaritiferus Cuvier &. Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., x, 145, 183.i, Amboina, Vanicolo. 

 Teulhis margaritiferus. Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876. 835, New Britain. Gunther, Challenger Shore Fislu->, 46, l^^i 

 Admiralty Is. 



1233. Siganus vitianus (Sauvage). Fiji. 

 Tciithls ritianus SiLUYeige. Bull. Phil. Soc, vi, 173: Fiji. 



1234. Siganus oligostictus (Kner). Fiji. 



Teutln.-< oli!i<i.^lirlu.< Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien 1868, 30, Fiji. 



1235. Siganus punctatus (Bloch & Schneider). Lo 'ele'ele. Tonga; New Caledonia; Guam; Fiji; 



.^'.i:: ■ ,1 1 :l -I Indies. 



.!«.., i'//s Bloch& Schneider, Syst. lehth., 1801, 210, Pacific Ocean (Tonga, New Caledoniai. 



.SVyu.i . r ' lileeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., vn, 18&4, 41, East Indies. Seale, Bishop Museum IWl, 111, iii, 



Guam. 

 Tenthis liej:agonata, Gunther, Fisehe der Siidsee, 80, Fiji, Samoa. 

 This species is abundant at Samoa. We have about 10 specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. 

 This is certainly the species called hexagonatus by Bleeker, and it is without much doubt the jntnclatux 

 of Bloch and Schneider, as Forster's notes, copied by Schneider, indicate a compressed species witli 

 small yellow spots on a bluish ground. Kner (Novara Fisehe) records some similar species as 

 Arnphacantlius gutlatus Bloch from Java and Ponape, but the Amphacanthus gidtatus of Bloch and 

 Schneider i.s another species of Siganus. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia called etieli, deep dusky blue, the color forming a network 

 around lironze orange spots; vertical fins marked in like fashion, but duller; pectoral olive; ventral 

 blackish gray. Body deeper than in Siganus rostratus. 



1236. Siganus rostratus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Palau; Tahiti; Guam; Samoa; Gilbert Is.; 



Raiatea; Tubuai; Fate and Shortland I. (Seale); Zanzibar. 

 Aiuiiliacinilhiis rostratus (Cuvier & Valenciennes), Hist. Nat. Pois.s., x. l.'iS, 183.'), Red Sea. 

 Teulliis rustratus Gunther, Fisehe der Siidsee, 89, with plate, Palau, Tahiti, Gilbert Is., Zanzibar. 

 Siganus rostratus, Seale, Bishop Museum 1901, 112, Guam. 

 This species is colored very much like Siganus punctaius, but the body is more elongate, the 

 caudal fin still more deeply forked. We have four large specimens from Apia. 



Life colors of one of these, sky-blue, dark above, vermiculated with golden; dorsal mottled olive; 

 caudal dusky, paler behind; anal dusky; ventral gray, barred with dark olive; pectoral golden. 



1237. Siganus corallinus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Palau Is.; F'ast Indies. 

 Arnphacantlius corallinus Cu\-let & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Pois.s., x, 139, 1835, Seychelles, East Indies. 

 Teulhis corallinus, Gunther, Fisehe der Siidsee, 88, Palau. 



1238. Siganus studeri (Peters). New Britain. 



Teuthis studeri Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, M34, New Britain. 



X.0 Seale, new genus. 

 Lo Seale, new genus of Siganidx (type Amphacanthus vulpinus Schlegel & Miiller). 

 This genus is defined by the short tubular snout. Lo is the vernacular name applied to ail the 

 Siganidu- in Samoa. 



