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1239. Lo vulpinus (Schlegel it iluUer). Solomon Isi.; Palau Is.; Alu, Solomon Is. (Seale); East 

 Indies. 

 .!,«/. ,-: ,,/,-.... •<ihlegel&Muller,Bydr.Dierk.,v, 1852, 38, East Indies. 



7> "'/'/ '. I iiImt, FischederSiidsee, 91, Solomon Is., Palau Is. 



This s|" . I, >, .l,-tin.:uished by the deep body, the slender elongate snout, and the peculiar colora- 

 tion, i.s knowfi to us irom one specimen, brought by Mr. Seale from Alu, one of the Solomon Islands. 

 We present a figure taken from this specimen, together with Mr. Scale's notes upon it. 



Head 3.3 in length; depth 2.2; eye 4 in head; interorbital equal to eye; snout 2 in head; scales 

 minute; dorsal .\in, 10; anal vii, 9; ventral i-3-i. 



Body compressed, snout produced, mouth small; a single row of small fiat teeth fixed in each jaw, 

 12 on each side; opercle striate; none of the dorsal or anal spines greatly elongate; the dorsal spines, 

 excepting the short anterior one, of about equal length, the longest 2 in head; anal spines similar, the 

 longest 2; soft rays of dorsal, 1.75; ventral 1.1; caudal emarginate, tlie lobes rounded; caudal 

 peduncle short, its depth equal to eye. 



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Fig. 61.— Lit i'tUi>inus (Schlegel & Miiller). 



Color in life, light bister brown; thorax and first ray of pectoral deep black; head and shoulders 

 a deeper brown than the body; caudal, dorsal, and anal orange; spines of ventral and the first ray 

 dusky; pectoral yellowish, with a slight dusky wash. 



Color in spirits, dull grayish brown, thorax and head much darker; anterior ray of pectoral black; 

 lins yellowish white. 



One specimen (no. 1325 Bishop Museum) from Alu,- one of the Solomon Islands, length, 7 

 inches. 



Family lULISTID^. 

 BALISTES (Artedi) Linnaeus. Siiinu. 



1240. Balistes vidua Richardson. .Snniit pii'tjin', muinti; Sainu i'u mumu. Hawaii; Samoa; 

 Nukahiva (Seale). 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago called sumu pa'epa'e mumu, body dark smoky, paling a 

 little lielow; pectoral canary-yellow with black edge; dorsal white with black margin; anal same; 

 caudal Chinese white at base, the rest scarlet. 



B. B. F. li)0.'>— 2 1 



