THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 367 



1280. Osbeckia liturosa (Shaw). Tahiti. 

 /InlislcsniiimxiisShaw, Gen. Zool., v, 406, 1S03, Tahiti. 

 ,l/..im«iii(/i"S lilurmiiis. C.iintlier, Cat., viii, 2!i3: copied. 



Tliis sjiei'ie.'i wan proliabl)' fouiuk'd on a largo example of (hheckhi svripta. 



ALUTERA (Cuvier) Oken. 



1281. Alutera monoceros (Linu:i'us). Hawaii; New Cuinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



Pamilv 0STK.\CIID.-1:. 

 OSTRACION Linnaeus. 



1282. Ostraciou tuberculatum Liniueus. Mvwitua uli. Samoa; Fiji; Guam; New Guinea; Mar- 



cus I.; New Britain (Peters: Berl. Men. 1876, 852); East Indies. 



This species, known by the round blue-black spots, is moderately common about Samoa. We have 

 six specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. One of these was yellow in life, the others olive. This 

 species seems well separated from its Japanese cognate, Ostraciou immaculalum. The species, called 

 < hiracion trignnum and Ostracion cubicum, is identical with Ostracion luberculalum. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia called moamoa, dark olive brown with bluish spots, which 

 are white in spirits; fins dull golden, blackish at base; caudal with a few rounded black spots at base. 



All the specimens from Pago Pago had blue-black spots; one with the caudal deep orange yellow, 

 the other fins paler yellow; another with the caudal dusky shaded with light yellow, the other fins 

 bright yellow. 



1283. Ostracion nasus Bloch. (iuaui; East Indies. 



1284. Ostracion ornatum HoUard. Marquesas Is. 



ii.ilracion uniatus Hollard, Ann. Sci. Nat., VII, 18.57, 166, Marquesas Is. 



Thi.s well-marked species, distinguished by the two pale lateral stripes, is unknown to us. 



1285. Ostracion lentiginosum Bloch & Schneider. Moamoa ulivli. Hawaii; Samoa; Guam; 



Johnston I.; East Indies. 



This species, common in the East Indies and South Seas, occurs both in Hawaii and Samoa. We 

 have eight examples from Apia and Pago Pago. The color is plain dark olive, with small whitish 

 spots above, below, and on sides. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, blackish brown, spotted everywhere with grayish white, 

 marbled on orange shades; caudal and belly also spotted; other fins olive; dorsal blackish at base. 



1286. Ostracion setose Bleeker. Moamoa samofiama. Hawaii; Samoa; New Guinea (Macleay); 



Fast Indies. 

 osiru'inii .^,l.:r Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., xxiv, 32, taf. 6, fig. i:i. East Indies. 

 Oslrnri'in b.jmhifwiis Hollard, Ann. Sci. Nat., 1857, vn, 168. 



(Mrariun aim arum Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xi.v, 1899 (1901), 396, tig. 9, Honolulu. 



Four specimens of this handsome species were taken on the reef at Apia. The color, well shown 



in BU'cker's figure, is characteristic, especially the undulating yellow stripe, most distinct on the tail. 



The spec ies i.s not rare on rocky shores about Hawaii, whence it was described as Ostracion camu- 



ruiii. Tlie yellow undulating stripe is sometimes faint in Hawaiian examples, but these often agree 



fully with the Samoan. 



1287. Ostracion oahuensis Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



This species is known from two examples from Himoluhi. It is near Ostradoii sebse, but the spots 

 are smaller, with none on the sides of the body. 



LACTORIA Jordan & Fowler. 



Lactoria Jordan & Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxv, 278, 1903 (cormUns). 



1288. Lactoria g-aleodon Jenkins. Hawaii. 



Ostraciim diaphanus Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wicii, i,.\x, .517. 19IW. Laysan, Hawaii: not ol LaciTTMe.' 

 This species is rather rare about Hawaii, all the examples seen l)eing small. It is nearly related 

 to Lactoria diapliana of Japan. 



