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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. 13S0 B. M., from Tahiti, Society Ids. 



Three specimens, Nos. 11 25, 11 26 and 1288 B. M., from Short- 

 laud Id., Solomons. 



I/ethrinus mahsena (Forskal). 



Two specimens, Nos. 675* and S43* B. M., from Maugareva. 



I^ethrinus harak (Forskal). 



One specimen, No. 951 B. M., from Fate, 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. 



I/ethrinus moensii Bleeker. 



One specimen, No. 2160 B. M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas 

 Ids. 



I/ethrinus leutjanus (Bloch). 



One specimen, No. 1067 B. M., from Fate, New Hebrides. 



Family KYPHOSIM). 

 Kyphosus cinerascens (Forskal). 



One specimen, No. 1043 B. M., from Fate, New Hebrides. 



Four specimens, Nos. 11 12, 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 bod}', 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. 



Family MULLID.F. 

 Mulloides samoensis Giinther. 



Nine specimens, Nos. 872, 873, 930, 960, 962, 1018, 852* B. M., 

 and five young, from Fate, 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. 



