THE FISHKS OF SAMOA. 379 



side of snout, and another round spot on anterior part of interorbital; eye with five radiating black 

 [■■nes; fins all with black cross bands except the ventral, which is bluish; axil of pectoral black, with 

 an upper and lower white spot, and some white dots on inner base of rays; a black spot on base of 

 pectoral, and on lower part of opercle; under part of head and top of snout white. 



Four specimens from Apia, where it lurks in the crevices of the reefs. The type is no. 51760 

 I'. S. National Museum, 4.85 inches long, from Apia. We have also one specimen from Pago Pago, 

 represented in the accompanying colored figure. 



1367. Deudrochirus chloreus Jenkins. Hawaii. 



1368. Dendrochirus barberi (Steindachner). Hawaii. 



{De7idrochirus hudsoui Joid&n & Evermann.) 



PTEROIS Cuvier. 



1369. Pterois sphex Jordan t*i Elvermaiin. Hawaii. 



1370. Pterois volitans (Linn;eus). Sausaukk. Samoa; Tahiti; Pal:ui -. ; Xew Guinea (Macleay); 



New Britain (Peters); East Indies. (PI. Li.) 

 This large and violently stinging fish is not rare about Samoa, wliere half a dozen examples were 

 taken. Life colors of one from .\pia called saitsauMc, blackish red, fading to pale olive-brown pos- 

 teriorly, the front of head abruptly bright pale brownish red; body covered by narrow sharply 

 defined white streaks, bounding black streaks of the ground color, one pair below eye, one pair across 

 nape; 5 more streaks on body, the first three Y-shaped, divided above and one of them below also; 

 lireast and belly with alternating white and blackish cross-bars; cirrus black, light red at tip; dorsal 

 light and dark red; soft dorsal, anal, and caudal with dark cross-bars; ventral deep red, streaked with 

 white, the spine white; pectoral dusky red, with two white crescents at base and a white axillary 

 spot, the rays bright pink-red; two horizontal dark-edged streaks on caudal peduncle; interorbital 

 pale pink. 



1371. Pterois radiata Solander. Tahiti; Paumotu Is.; Samoa; Kingsmill I. 



One specimen, called sausaukk, was taken by us at Samoa. Life coloi'S, black with whitish streaks, 

 these brownish red on head; long dorsal rays reddish brown at tip. 



1372. Pterois vittata Sauvage. Marquesas Is. 



Pterois viiUiia Sauvage, Nouv. Arch. Museum. 1S7S, i:i,'\ Nnkahiva. 



PELOHOPSIS Gilbert. 



1373. Peloropsis xenops Gilbert. Di-ep Sfas ut Hawaii. 



INIMICUS Jordan & Starks. 



1374. luimicus maculatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Waigiu; New Britain; New Guinea. 

 Inimicus maciilaius Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 43-1, 18i;s, Waigiu. Lesson, \'yy. Cmiuille, -210, 



plate 20. Giinther, Cat., ii, 150, Waigiu. 

 l-elor manilaliim. I'etvr-. Herl. Mon. 1S7G. 834, New Britain. 



SYNANCEJA Bloch & Schneider. {Sunanddium MiiUer; Si/mmreichthys Bleeker. ) 



-According to Bleeker, the genus Sjmrco, or Synanceichthijs, to which our species belongs, differing 

 from Synanceja in the absence of palatine teeth, can not be maintained as a distinct genus, these teeth 

 being frequently wanting in Synanceja horrida. 



1375. Synanceja verrucosa Bloch & Schneider. Nofu. Samoa; Fiji; Tahiti; New Hanover; 



Strong I.; Borabora; Guam-; New (Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 

 !>imanccia thirsitcs Seale, Bishop Museum, vol. i, no. 3, 1901, 121, Guam. 

 This most uncomely fish abounds in the tide pools of the coral reefs of Samoa. It is much 

 dreaded by the natives on account of its poisonous dorsal spines. 



A specimen from Apia called noj'u in lite was the color of coral sand, the surface mud-colored, with 

 concealed orange patches showing on head and body; caudal with a blackish cross-bam 1; a whitish 

 cross-band at base and one at tip. 



