THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 3(33 



This handsome species is generally common at Honolulu and Samoa, thence througliout the 

 Soutli Seas and East Indies. 



1252. Balistapus rectang-ulus (Bloch & Schneider). Samu pukpule . Hawaii; Guam; Marcus I.; 



Samoa; New Guinea; Fate and Nukuhiva (Seale). 

 This pretty species is rather common atwut Hawaii, thence tlirougl\ tlie South Seas and East 

 Indies. We have a few specimens from Samoa. 



1253. Balistapus undulatus (Bloch & Schneider). f<iuimuli. Samoa; New Britain; New Guinea; 



New Hanover; Guam; Tahiti; Shortland I., Fate and Raiatea (Seale); East Indies. 



Of this common East Indian species we have about a hundred specimens from the reefs of Samoa, 

 where it is very abundant. It was not seen at Honolulu. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia called samu uli, deep livid olive green, shaded on back and 

 head; stripes anteriorly, scarlet on chin, yellow on lower lip; body covered by oblique stripes running 

 forward and backward; brassy orange on head; violet streaks on snout and side of head; golden brown 

 stripes on side; first dorsal golden, with blue spots; second dorsal golden, orange at base, violet blue 

 lower, the membranes bluish ; caudal centrally yellow-orange, with violet stripes on margin ; anal like 

 dorsal; a black patch on caudal peduncle; pectoral scarlet, black at base, pale at tip. 



1254. Balistapus oire (Bennett). Raiatea; Tahiti. 



BallKtesoirc Bennett, Whaling Voyage, u, -262, 1840, Raiatea, Tahiti. 



1255. Balistapus papuensis (Macleay). New Guinea. 

 Ilaliftts inpunifif Maeleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1884, 279. 



1256. Balistapus verrucosus ( Linnpeus). New Ireland; New Guinea; Shortland I. (Seale); East 



Indies. 



CANTHIDERMIS Swainson. 



1257. Canthidermis rotuudatus ( Proce) . South Seas?; Philippines; East Indies. 



1258. Cantliidermisang-ulosus(Quoy&Gaimard). Hawaii (Quoy&Gaimard); Laysan; Galapagos 



Is. (Snodgrass i-t Heller); East Indies. 

 Batistes angulosius Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool. 210, 1824, Maui. ( Dorsal 23, anal 20. Color black, fins high. ) 

 Batistes aureotus. Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Fishes, 126, pi. 59, fig. 1, 2, East Indies. Giinther, Cat., vni, 215, 1870, 

 young, East Indies. Steindachiier. Sitz. Ali. Wi.ss. Wien 1900,517, Laysan. 

 Of this species we know the [mlilished descriptions only, and these do not distinguish it from 

 Cditthiihrmis rolinulKtitx. Hn/isl.x ,nii-i'nl,i,<, from the East Indies, based on young examples, is said to 

 differ from CmilhideriiiiK rolmnldliix in the larger scales. Balist s irillughbei Bennett from Mazatlan 

 and Tlii/isles adspertras Tchudi from Peru belong in this neighborhood. 



In all our explorations we have taken no species of Canthidermis in the Pacific. 



XANTHICHTHYS Richardson. 



1259. Xanthichthys lineopuuctatus (Hollard). Hawaii; Kevillagigedo Is. ; Bourbon I. 



\ Xanthidiihys mtnto Jordan (t Gilbert. ) 



This species, not rare in rather deep water about volcanic rocks in the neighborhdod of Hawaii, 

 was not seen in Samoa. It occurs among the Kevillagigedo Islands off the coast of Mexico, and at 

 Laysan. The West Indian species, Xanthichthys ringens, is probably different, but the species calle<l 

 Batistes lineopiinctalns by Hollard, based on an example from Bourbon Island, is apparently the 

 Hawaii-Mexican species. 



1260. Xanthichthys rivulatus (Ruppell). Fate, New Hebrides (Seale); Red Sea. 



MELICHTHYS Swainson. 



1261. Melichthys radula Hichanlson. Hawaii; JIarcus I.; Johnston I.; Lay.?an; offshore islands 



of Mexico. 



(M'tidMijs hisiHiWfiif Gilbert.) 



