Fishes of the South Pacific. 59 



Cheilinus trilobatus (Lacepede). 



Two specimens, Xos. 725 and 1369* B. M., from Tubuai, 

 Austral Ids. 



Two specimens, Xos. 945* and 941 B. M., from Fate, New 

 Hebrides. 



One specimen, Xo. S23 B. M., from Mangareva Id. 



One specimen, Xo. 1369 B. M., from Tahiti. 



Family SCARICHTHYID.E. 

 Scarichthys auritus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Two specimens, Xos. 1 91 7 and 1943* B. M., from Rarotonga, 

 Cook Ids. 



Scarichthys cceruleopunctatus (Riippel). 



Two specimens, Xos. 191 S and 1942 B. M., from Rarotonga, 

 Cook Ids. 



Scarichthys rarotongae Seale, new species. 



Depth 3.50; eye 3.75 in head, 1 in preorbital portion of head, 

 and 1 in interorbital space; D. x, 10; A. in, 9; scales of lateral 

 line 24. 



Body oblong, compressed; the lateral line interrupted, the 

 tubules two-branched; teeth and nostrils generic; the profile of the 

 head seems slightly different from other species of Scarichthys^ 

 being slightly concave above the posterior margin of the eye, and 

 snout has a slope slightly greater than 45 ; caudal peduncle 2.30 

 in head; the tubules on the orbitals and preopercles are quite promi- 

 nent; base of anal fin 2.75 in base of dorsal; length of pectorals 

 1.40 in head; ventrals, 2. 



Color in spirits is a dull coppery green without white dots; 

 there are about five zones of darker greenish on the body, the first 

 being above the base of the pectorals and over the shoulders, the 

 second is below the seventh and eighth dorsal spines, the third is 

 below the first and third dorsal rays, the fourth is below the fifth 

 and seventh dorsal rays, and the fifth is below the axis of the 

 dorsal; there is a dark blotch on the base of the pectorals, and 

 another in the posterior axis of the dorsal; this dark spot occupies 

 the base of the last four dorsal rays; the dark zones of color on the 

 bodv, with the exception of the anterior one, invade the basal half 

 of the dorsal fin; pectorals white, without marks; ventrals with 

 indistinct darker markings; anal with five bands of dusky; caudal 

 greenish, the tip white, and a white cross band near the tip. 



One specimen, Xo. 1903 (Fig. 8) B. M., length 4 in., from 

 Rarotonga, Cook Ids. 



Callyodon dubius (Bennett). 



One specimen, Xo. 1375 B. M., from Tahiti. 



