j.6 Fishes of the South Pacific. 



Color in life, silvery; 5 broad yellow longitudinal lines below 

 the lateral line, and 5 narrow yellow lines above it; a bright silvery 

 mark in posterior axis of dorsal fin; base of pectoral and the axis 

 dusky; naked part of head brown; dorsal pinkish white, the mar- 

 gin brighter red; anal, caudal and pectorals pinkish; ventrals 

 white. 



One specimen from Tubuai Id., No. 735 B. M., length 8.50 in. 

 Five specimens from Mangareva Id.: No. 825 B. M., length 5.75 

 in.; No. 826 B. M., length 5.50 in.; No. 827 B. M., length 5.75 in.; 

 No. 805 B. M., length 5.50 in.; No. 813 B. M., length 6 in. 



Pentapus vittatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Four specimens, Nos. 1110, 1161, 1165, 1175 B. M., from 

 Shortland Id., Solomons. 



Color in life, pale grayish, with a white line on each side of 

 dorsal; a white line below the lateral line; a blue line over fore- 

 head in front of eyes; fins white. 



Family SPARIM). 

 Monotaxis grandoculis (Forskal). 



Depth 2.30; head 3; eye 3; D. x, 10; A. in, 9; scales 6-50-14; 

 interorbital 3.10; snout 2.10. 



Body oblong compressed, scaled; depth of caudal peduncle 

 1.50 in its length; head compressed, rather blunt, very convex 

 above the anterior margin of eyes; snout straight, its angle about 

 45; mouth protractile; maxillary hidden; mandible 2.10 in head. 

 Teeth: small conical canines in anterior of jaws, a single row of 

 molars in sides of jaws; gill-rakers short and blunt, 7 on lower 

 limb; opercles scaled, without spines or serrations; preopercle 

 scaled and with fine serrations on the posterior part. The dorsal 

 is received into a groove; the attachment of the membrane alter- 

 nates from right to left side of spines: the fifth spine 2.10 in head, 

 3 in base of fin; the 6-7 dorsal rays the longest, 1.80 in head; base 

 0fanal2.20iuba.se of dorsal, its longest ray 2.15 in head; the 

 third anal spine is the longest, 2.30 in head; pectorals reaching to 

 above anal fin, their length 1.40 in head; base of dorsal equal to 

 head; caudal deeply emarginate, the middle ray 2.75 in outer ray. 



Color, silvery, with three white bands over the back, the first 

 on the nuchal region down the opercles and preopercles; the sec- 

 ond below the basis of the 1-4 dorsal spines and sloping obliquely 

 back; the third between the ninth spine and first ray, extending 

 vertically down towards origin of anal; a black spot in axis of pec- 

 torals; a black splotch on upper part of eye; the modified scales 

 on the nuchal region tinted with dusky; dorsal pinkish white, with 

 a dusky margin and a dusky blotch 011 webs, and at base of an- 

 terior 5 rays of dorsal; the posterior portion of the soft dorsal and 



