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1241. Balistes castaneus Richardson. Pacific; west coast of Mexico. 



llalistes castaneus Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, 120, pi. 59, figs. 6, 6, Pacific, locality unkown. Kegaii, Ann. Nut. Hist. 



1902, 297, Pacific, same specimen. 

 JSalistcs polylepis Steindachner, Ich. Beitr., v, 21, 1876, Magdalena Bay, Mazatlan, Acapulco. Jordan & 

 Evermann, Fishes North & Mid. Amer., ii. 1700, 1898, Lower California, Panama. 

 According to Regan's account this is a true Batistes, and agrees very closely with Balistes polylepis 

 Steindachner, a species common from Cerros Island to Panama. We have also a specimen from San 

 Diego. Richardson's specimens probably came from the Panama region, and it is likely that the 

 species does not belong to the Polynesian fauna at ail. 



1242. Balistes capistratus Shaw. Hawaii; Nukahiva (Seale); East Indies. 



1243. Balistes niger Bonnaterre. New Guinea; East Indies. 

 I llalistes conspicUlum Bloch & Schneider. ) 



1244. Balistes bursa Bloch & Schneider. Hawaii; Nukahiva (Seale); East Indies. 



1245. Balistes viridescens Bloch & Schneider. New Guinea (Macleay); East Indie-s. 



1246. Balistes nycteris Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



1247. Balistes chrysopterus Bloch & Schneider. Sumu pa' epa' e. Samoa; Aneiteum; Micronesia; 



New Britain; Fate (Seale). 



Balistes niger Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soc, in, 37, 1791, Sumatra; not of Bonnaterre, 1788, which is Balistes 

 niiier^Balistes conspicillum. Giinther, Cat., vin, 218, Red Sea, Mauritius, Ceylon, Sumatra, Amboina, Aneiteum, 

 Micronesia, Zanzibar. Day. Fish Ind., 688, pi. 181, fig. 1, Malaysia. Peters, Berl. ijon. 1876, 852; New Britain. 



Balistes anni Lac^pfide, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 336, 382, 1798. 



Balistes chrysopterus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 466, 1801, Coromandel. 



Balistes mungopark Lac^pMe, Hist. Nat., Poiss., iv, 682, 1803; after Park. 



Balistes subarmatus Gray & Hardwicke, 111. Ind. Zool., India. 



Balistes albicaudalus Riippell, Neue Wirbelthiere, 54, xvi, fig. 1, 1835, Red Sea. 



Balistes verrucosus Gronov/, Syst., ed. Gray, 33, 1854; not of Bonnaterre. 



Balistes armatus, Bleeker, Atlas, v, 115, tab. ccxvi. East Indies; name after Lac^pfide. 



Of this East Indian species we obtained two specimens at Samoa, where it is apparently rare. 

 Life colors of a specimen from Apia called pae pae, olive-gray, without color, whitish about jaws; a 

 whitish band across lower jaw, another across chin, the latter extending backward across lower part 

 of cheek; caudal gray with a blackish cross-streak and a white crescent at edge. 



1248. Balistes fuscolineatus Seale. Hawaii. 



1249. Balistes fuscus Bloch & Schneider. Fiji (Giinther |; Tahiti (Seale); New Guinea (.Macleay); 



East Indies. 



1250. Balistes flavomarginatus Riippell. Smnu laolao. Samoa; New Britain (Peters); New 



■ Guinea (Macleay); Shortland I. (Seale); East Indies; Japan. 



A. single large specimen of this East Indian species was taken at Apia. It agrees closely with 

 Bleeker's figure. According to Dr. Peters, this is the Balistes brasiliensis oi Bloch and Schneider. The 

 description of Schneider agrees fairly, but it is confused with some of the American species and pur- 

 ports to be drawn from an American specimen. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia called sumu laolao, light olive-green, the head abruptly creamy 

 reddish brown, sides with many blackish spots covering or partly covering individual scales; back 

 more brownish; first dorsal brownish with dusky membrane; second dorsal dusky brownish at base 

 with orange-brown edge; anal same; caudal orange-brown, deeper on edges and margin with a dusky 

 crescent; pectoral pale orange; naked "grooves" on cheek raised, reddish brown, the scaly stripe.^ 

 darker. 



BALISTAPDS Tilesius. 



1251. Balistapus aculeatus (Linnfeus). Sumuuliuli. Hawaii; Samoa; Johnston I.; Fiji; Guam; 



New Guinea; Marcus I.; New Ireland; East Indies. 

 Monacanthus chiverti AWeyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 1876, 355, New Guinea. 

 Balistes aculeatus Steindachner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1900, 517, Samoa, Laysan. Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876. 852, New 



Ireland. Swain & Smith, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., v. 1882. 139, Johnston I. Seale, Bishop Museum 1901, ll.i, Guam. 



Bryan & Herre, Bishop Museum 1903. 135, Marcus I. 



