Fishes of the South Pacific. 47 
anal pinkish white; ventrals pinkish, with dusky tip; pectorals 
and caudal pinkish white without markings. 
One specimen from Tubuai, No. 752 B. M., length 8.75 in. 
One specimen, No. 1380 B. M., from Tahiti, Society Ids. 
Three specimens, Nos. 1125, 1126 and 1288 B. M., from Short- 
land Id., Solomons. 
Lethrinus mahsena (Forskal). 
Two specimens, Nos. 675* and 843* B. M., from Mangareva. 
Lethrinus harak (Forskal). 
One specimen, No. 951 B. M., from Faté, New Hebrides. 
One specimen, No. 1271 B. M., from Shortland Id., Solomons. 
Color in life, whitish, with a big black blotch on lateral line 
below the seventh dorsal spine to third dorsal ray; above each 
blotch is an area of yellow; a short bright blue line from eye to 
lower opening of nostril; eyes yellow; inside of mouth red; fins 
pinkish. 
Lethrinus moensii Bleeker. 
One specimen, No. 2160 B. M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas 
Ids. 
Lethrinus leutjanus (Bloch). 
One specimen, No. 1067 B. M., from Faté, New Hebrides. 
FAMILY KYPHOSIDZ. 
Kyphosus cinerascens (Forskal). 
One specimen, No. 1043 B. M., from Faté, New Hebrides. 
Four specimens, Nos. 1112, 1318, 1316* and 1320 B. M., from 
Shortland Id., Solomons. 
Color in life is dusky silvery, sides with long yellowish lines 
almost as wide as interspaces, these lines most distinct on the 
middle of the body, and becoming indistinct on the lower part; a 
yellow line from gape to opercles, another line through the eye; 
spinous dorsal bluish; soft dorsal slightly darker; pectorals bluish, 
with wash of yellow near base. 
Famity MULLIDA. 
Mulloides samoensis Ginther. 
Nine specimens, Nos. 872, 873, 930, 960, 962, 1018, 852* B. M., 
and five young, from Faté, New Hebrides. 
In spirits the dark spot on the lateral line under the 6-7 dorsal 
spine shows more distinctly than in life, while the single lateral 
stripe seen in larger specimens disappears. 
